Linux

Monitoring

Terms

7 terms

  • htop

    htop is an interactive, color terminal process viewer for Linux that shows per-core CPU, memory, load and every process in a scrollable, sortable list.

  • iostat

    iostat is a Linux monitoring tool from the sysstat package that reports CPU usage and per-device disk I/O rates, latency, queue depth and utilization.

  • lsof

    lsof is the Linux monitoring command that lists open files per process, including regular files, directories, pipes, devices and network sockets.

  • Pressure stall information

    Pressure stall information (PSI) is a Linux kernel metric showing how much time tasks lose waiting for CPU, memory or I/O resources.

  • strace

    strace is a Linux diagnostic tool that traces the system calls and signals of a process, showing how a program interacts with the kernel.

  • top

    top is the interactive Linux monitoring command that shows a live, sorted view of processes, CPU load, memory use and system load averages.

  • vmstat

    vmstat is a Linux monitoring command that reports virtual memory, processes, swapping, block I/O, interrupts and CPU activity at fixed intervals.