Looking for a lightweight system monitor

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  1. glance

    Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

    Try Glances, cAdvisor, or Netdata. I run all three in containers. None use resources to speak of until you use them. I prefer cAdvisor to monitor container memory and CPU usage for containers. Netdata is normally my go to when I want to see overall host performance when it is not a container going haywire and I am troubleshooting. Glances, well, just because it is pretty cool and nostaligic.

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  3. cadvisor

    Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.

    Try Glances, cAdvisor, or Netdata. I run all three in containers. None use resources to speak of until you use them. I prefer cAdvisor to monitor container memory and CPU usage for containers. Netdata is normally my go to when I want to see overall host performance when it is not a container going haywire and I am troubleshooting. Glances, well, just because it is pretty cool and nostaligic.

  4. Netdata

    The open-source observability platform everyone needs

    Try Glances, cAdvisor, or Netdata. I run all three in containers. None use resources to speak of until you use them. I prefer cAdvisor to monitor container memory and CPU usage for containers. Netdata is normally my go to when I want to see overall host performance when it is not a container going haywire and I am troubleshooting. Glances, well, just because it is pretty cool and nostaligic.

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