

It also displays the percentage of time the process spent while swapping in and while waiting on I/O. It displays columns on read and write and each row represents a process. Iotop checks the I/O usage information and gives you a top-like interface to that. It can also help you experiment with power management settings to achieve the most efficient settings for your server. Powertop helps you diagnose issues that has to do with power consumption and power management. It gives you a live look into the database and what queries it’s processing in real time. Mytop is a neat tool for monitoring threads and performance of mysql. ftptopįtptop gives you basic information of all the current ftp connections to your server such as the total amount of sessions, how many are uploading and downloading and who the client is. It displays current number of reads, writes and the overall number of requests processed. apachetopĪpachetop monitors the overall performance of your apache webserver. It will also highlight resources that have reached a critical load. It also shows resource consumption by all processes. atopĪtop monitors all processes much like top and htop, unlike top and htop however it has daily logging of the processes for long-term analysis. It’s visually easier to understand and has built in commands for common things you would like to do. Htop is essentially an enhanced version of top.

Order processes on different criteria – the default of which is CPU. When you want an overview of all the processes or threads running in the system: top is a good tool. This is a small tool which is pre-installed on many unix systems. To help you find the right tool, we separated the 80+ tools in this list into five categories: This is why we decided to make the most comprehensive list of Linux monitoring tools on the Internet. It’s hard work monitoring and debugging Linux performance problems, but it’s easier with the right tools at the right time. This post was originally published on the blog by Server Density, an infrastructure monitoring company that joined StackPath in 2018.
