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Forget containers, where can I get a commandline monitoring tool this slick for regular processes? I feel like we skipped a step here.

dflock 10y ago
http://hisham.hm/htop/ http://hisham.hm/htop/
- amaranth 10y ago
  htop is nice, sure, but not ctop levels of nice. Aside from the general pretty display and having network details ctop also has a really nice looking expanded view[1] that shows these over time with graphs. [1] https://github.com/bcicen/ctop/blob/master/_docs/expanded.md https://github.com/bcicen/ctop/blob/master/_docs/expanded.md
  - 234dd57d2c8dba 10y ago
    I like glances
  - digi_owl 10y ago
    Dunno about pr process, but i could have sworn that graphs where a option in htop. http://hisham.hm/htop/index.php?page=screenshots http://hisham.hm/htop/index.php?page=screenshots Some of them show both 1.0 graphs and the new, unicode based ones from 2.0.
    - Normal_gaussian 10y ago
      Graphs are an option. Press F2, move to the entry you want and toggle it between Bar, Graph, Text, and LED. However they are still not per process. And there are no network statistics.
chrisper 10y ago
nmon is nice too
SwellJoe 10y ago
I'm oddly excited about command line tools lately. I've recently been porting all of our shell scripts to have color text output and Unicode status indicators (like a green checkmark for "OK" or red X for failure), when the terminal supports it (which, these days, is almost always). It just gives things a really polished feel that CLI tools don't always have. I've used tools like dialog, in the past, but I've never really been a big fan; they seem like the worst of both worlds. It has the low-information density and high interaction requirements of a GUI, without actually looking really cool in the way a GUI can. That's my long-winded way of saying, I also really like the way this looks, and I'm totally stealing some of the visual ideas here for my own tools.
- digi_owl 10y ago
  As of late i find myself thinking that the big DEs have been a massive distraction from what made _nix so potent. While Windows and Mac had largely tried to hide or distance themselves from the CLI in favor of the GUI, the way X11 is implemented allows CLI programs to use GUI for enhancements rather than replacements.
  - tutanchamun 10y ago
    Yeah, from time to time I think that too when I browse /r/unixporn and see all the tiling window manager screens.
  - drchickensalad 10y ago
    How is that so?
    - digi_owl 10y ago
      https://feh.finalrewind.org/ https://feh.finalrewind.org/ That is a image viewer that can be operated from the command line but that then produce a GUI window (or windows) that can be manipulated by mouse and keyboard. It has also various options for displaying image properties in the terminal. Meaning that it could be leveraged along with existing _nix CLI tools to fine images in a large directory (or even directory tree) and then display the result, all by piping commands together.
ymt123 10y ago
I'm a fan of glances: https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
- searchfaster 10y ago
  Thank you ! Glances seems to be a good netdata + htop replacement
- blockloop 10y ago
  Glances also shows docker containers like this.
amckinlay 10y ago
I wish when I quit top it didn't leave its interface in console scrollback.
mrmondo 10y ago
htop - http://hisham.hm/htop/ http://hisham.hm/htop/
gioele 10y ago
A more UNIXy question is: why isn't there a generic tool that do nice and slick TUIs (textual user interfaces) so that htop, ntop, iotop, ctop and so on can all be implemented on top of it?
- Nelkins 10y ago
  I have seen some things like this before. For example, in .NET there is Console Framework[1] which allows you to define TUIs in XAML or code. [1] https://github.com/elw00d/consoleframework https://github.com/elw00d/consoleframework
- sophacles 10y ago
  There's a few... https://github.com/gizak/termui https://github.com/gizak/termui https://github.com/gizak/termui https://github.com/gizak/termui https://github.com/nsf/termbox https://github.com/nsf/termbox But they could all probably be a bit better.
reader_1000 10y ago
atop - http://www.atoptool.nl/ http://www.atoptool.nl/ Atop is a good command line monitoring tool. It also keeps historical data.

dflock 10y ago

http://hisham.hm/htop/ http://hisham.hm/htop/

amaranth 10y ago
htop is nice, sure, but not ctop levels of nice. Aside from the general pretty display and having network details ctop also has a really nice looking expanded view[1] that shows these over time with graphs. [1] https://github.com/bcicen/ctop/blob/master/_docs/expanded.md https://github.com/bcicen/ctop/blob/master/_docs/expanded.md
- 234dd57d2c8dba 10y ago
  I like glances
- digi_owl 10y ago
  Dunno about pr process, but i could have sworn that graphs where a option in htop. http://hisham.hm/htop/index.php?page=screenshots http://hisham.hm/htop/index.php?page=screenshots Some of them show both 1.0 graphs and the new, unicode based ones from 2.0.
  - Normal_gaussian 10y ago
    Graphs are an option. Press F2, move to the entry you want and toggle it between Bar, Graph, Text, and LED. However they are still not per process. And there are no network statistics.

chrisper 10y ago

nmon is nice too

SwellJoe 10y ago

I'm oddly excited about command line tools lately. I've recently been porting all of our shell scripts to have color text output and Unicode status indicators (like a green checkmark for "OK" or red X for failure), when the terminal supports it (which, these days, is almost always). It just gives things a really polished feel that CLI tools don't always have. I've used tools like dialog, in the past, but I've never really been a big fan; they seem like the worst of both worlds. It has the low-information density and high interaction requirements of a GUI, without actually looking really cool in the way a GUI can. That's my long-winded way of saying, I also really like the way this looks, and I'm totally stealing some of the visual ideas here for my own tools.

digi_owl 10y ago
As of late i find myself thinking that the big DEs have been a massive distraction from what made _nix so potent. While Windows and Mac had largely tried to hide or distance themselves from the CLI in favor of the GUI, the way X11 is implemented allows CLI programs to use GUI for enhancements rather than replacements.
- tutanchamun 10y ago
  Yeah, from time to time I think that too when I browse /r/unixporn and see all the tiling window manager screens.
- drchickensalad 10y ago
  How is that so?
  - digi_owl 10y ago
    https://feh.finalrewind.org/ https://feh.finalrewind.org/ That is a image viewer that can be operated from the command line but that then produce a GUI window (or windows) that can be manipulated by mouse and keyboard. It has also various options for displaying image properties in the terminal. Meaning that it could be leveraged along with existing _nix CLI tools to fine images in a large directory (or even directory tree) and then display the result, all by piping commands together.

ymt123 10y ago

I'm a fan of glances: https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

searchfaster 10y ago
Thank you ! Glances seems to be a good netdata + htop replacement
blockloop 10y ago
Glances also shows docker containers like this.

amckinlay 10y ago

I wish when I quit top it didn't leave its interface in console scrollback.

mrmondo 10y ago

htop - http://hisham.hm/htop/ http://hisham.hm/htop/

gioele 10y ago

A more UNIXy question is: why isn't there a generic tool that do nice and slick TUIs (textual user interfaces) so that htop, ntop, iotop, ctop and so on can all be implemented on top of it?

Nelkins 10y ago
I have seen some things like this before. For example, in .NET there is Console Framework[1] which allows you to define TUIs in XAML or code. [1] https://github.com/elw00d/consoleframework https://github.com/elw00d/consoleframework
sophacles 10y ago
There's a few... https://github.com/gizak/termui https://github.com/gizak/termui https://github.com/gizak/termui https://github.com/gizak/termui https://github.com/nsf/termbox https://github.com/nsf/termbox But they could all probably be a bit better.

reader_1000 10y ago

atop - http://www.atoptool.nl/ http://www.atoptool.nl/ Atop is a good command line monitoring tool. It also keeps historical data.