Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Glances - Linux tool to grab lots of stats in one go...

Glances

As the name suggests, it provides a glance of the current system state/stat.

It covers most of the information related to a Linux system. CPU, Network, Disk, Mount points, Process.

To Install on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python-pip build-essential python-dev
sudo pip install Glances
sudo pip install PySensors

To run :

sudks@sudks-ThinkPad-T420:~$ glances 



It provides output in form of html or csv etc.

In my case - apache2 is already installed.

sudks@sudks-ThinkPad-T420:~$ sudo mkdir /var/www/monitor
sudks@sudks-ThinkPad-T420:/var/www/monitor$ glances -o HTML -f /var/www/monitor/



Refer man page for more info.

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