Its not nearly a simple desktop widget like the ones mentioned here, but the right answer is a monitoring solution. Personally, im a huge fan of zabbix, becaus

Its not nearly a simple desktop widget like the ones mentioned here, but the right answer is a monitoring solution. Personally, im a huge fan of zabbix, because of its flexibility and ease of use (been poking with it for 20 years so maybe im biased). I have it running for my homelab, which includes a remote server. I have a whole page of network stats, including graphs for data from `mtr`. Id rather have a dashboard to go look at than something that is always in my face, but thats because i dislike taking screenspace for things im not working on.