system monitor

btop

btop is a resource monitor written in C++ that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.

Install

APT

sudo apt install btop

snap

sudo snap install btop
sudo snap connect btop:removable-media

Official binaries can be downloaded here.

Glances

glances is a cross-platform advance system monitor for usage monitoring for CPU, RAM, Network, GPU, etc.

Install

Install script

curl -L https://bit.ly/glances | bash

Or

wget -O- https://bit.ly/glances | bash

snap

sudo snap install glances

nvtop

nvtop is a GPU process monitor for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA GPUs. The command is nvtop.

Install

APT

sudo apt install nvtop

snap

sudo snap install nvtop
# Add the capability to kill processes inside nvtop
sudo snap connect nvtop:process-control
# Add the capability to inspect GPU information (fan, PCIe, power, etc)
sudo snap connect nvtop:hardware-observe
# AMDGPU process list support (read /proc/<pid>)
sudo snap connect nvtop:system-observe
# Temporary workaround to get per-process GPU usage (read /proc/<pid>/fdinfo)
sudo snap connect nvtop:kubernetes-support

Bottom

bottom is a resource monitor written in Rust. The command is btm.

Install

DEB

Download and install the deb release.

snap

sudo snap install bottom

# To allow the program to run as intended
sudo snap connect bottom:mount-observe
sudo snap connect bottom:hardware-observe
sudo snap connect bottom:system-observe
sudo snap connect bottom:process-control

Mission center

Mission center is a Windows-like monitoring tool for your CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and GPU usage.

Install

• AppImage (x86_64)
• Flatpak
• snap

NeoHtop

neohtop is a MacOS-like monitoring tool for your system.

Install

• Download from the project page

Disk info

udisks

udisks provides a daemon udisksd, that implements D-Bus interfaces used to query and manipulate storage devices, and a command-line tool udisksctl, used to query and use the daemon.

To see your drive model:

udisksctl status

nvme-cli

nvme-cliis a NVMe management command line interface.

Install

sudo apt install nvme-cli

See drive health

# X is the drive number
sudo nvme smart-log /dev/nvmeX -H