Linux Monitors

s-tui

Stress Tester

apt install -y stress-ng s-tui

htop

Process Monitor

sudo apt install htop

iftop

Network monitor, bandwidth monitor

sudo apt install iftop

iotop

Disk usage monitor, disk bandwidth monitor

sudo apt install iotop

nvtop

GPU monitor, graphics card usage monitor

sudo apt install nvtop

btop

Process monitor, CPU usage monitor, memory monitor

sudo apt install btop

If the colours don’t render properly, press O for options and change Truecolor to False.

If the font doesn’t look right, it means your detault terminal font does not support braille characters.

The DejaVue font supports braille characters and can be installed by:

sudo apt install fonts-dejavu

Now edit the btop configuration file:

nano ~/.config/btop/btop.conf

Now add a new entry:

font = "DejaVu Sans Mono"

Perf

Performance tool which allows detailed interrogation of events

sudo apt install linux-perf

Wavemon

WiFi monitor, Wifi bandwidth monitor

sudo apt install wavemon