Nmon is another htop alternative that stands for “ Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux”. However, the uses of htop will not find Glances much colorful which may create confusion to them sometimes, nevertheless, having a network bandwidth monitor gives it one plus point. On Ubuntu, Linux Mint, CentOS, RHEL, and other Linux, the users can install it with just one command, i.e- wget -O- | /bin/bash Stats can also be exported to files or external time/value databases such as InfluxDB, Cassandra, CouchDB.

One can use its client-server model to monitor remote systems either using SSH, web interface, or API (XML-RPC and RESTful). It has been written in Python, thus, supports any major platform having python installed such as Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and Android. Just like htop this one is also an interactive text-based performance monitoring tool. One is using the web interface and the other is the local terminal. Glances systemĪs compared to htop, Glances as an alternative offers two ways to access the system monitoring data.

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