Another variation on "top"

madpenguin · February 23, 2025, 2:00pm

Just for anyone who’s not come across it … you’re probably familiar with top for monitoring system usage, and maybe also htop which is also mentioned quite a bit online … htop being a more recent and more technical take on top.

There is also a third option that you don’t see mentioned quite so much that is arguably even (!) more technical, but also much prettier, that’s btop.

Maybe worth a look if you’re interested in nice command line tools

Gaz511 · February 23, 2025, 4:07pm

If you prefer a GUI app rather than the terminal there is Mission Center which is available as a flatpak or snap package.

https://missioncenter.io/

madpenguin · February 23, 2025, 5:09pm

Looks nice … is this a local machine only solution, or will it run against containers over a ssh connection?

madpenguin · February 23, 2025, 5:13pm

This is my netdata dashboard … although this does work over the network it seems to be limited to 5 nodes and the collection daemon is pretty heavy. Always looking for something better, in this case, not limited and lighter weight in terms of metric collection.