18 Command Line Tools to Monitor Linux Performance
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psacct or acct tools are very useful for monitoring each users activity on the system. Both daemons runs in the background and keeps a close watch on the overall activity of each user on the system and also what resources are being consumed by them. These tools are very useful for system administrators to track each users activity like what they are doing,what commands they issued,how much resources are used by them,how long they are active on the system etc. For installation and example usage of commands read the article on? 11. Monit – Linux Process and Services MonitoringMonit?is a free open source and web based process supervision utility that automatically monitors and managers system processes,programs,files,directories,permissions,checksums and filesystems. It monitors services like Apache,MySQL,Mail,FTP,ProFTP,Nginx,SSH and so on. The system status can be viewed from the command line or using it own web interface. <p class="wp-caption-text">Monit Linux Process Monitoring Read More?:? 12. NetHogs – Monitor Per Process Network BandwidthNetHogs?is an open source nice small program (similar to Linux?top command) that keeps a tab on each process network activity on your system. It also keeps a track of real time network traffic bandwidth used by each program or application. <p class="wp-caption-text">NetHogs Linux Bandwidth Monitoring Read More?:? 13. iftop – Network Bandwidth Monitoringiftop?is another terminal-based free open source system monitoring utility that displays a frequently updated list of network bandwidth utilization (source and destination hosts) that passing through the network interface on your system. iftop is considered for network usage,what ‘top‘ does for CPU usage. iftop is a ‘top‘ family tool that monitor a selected interface and displays a current bandwidth usage between two hosts. <p class="wp-caption-text">iftop – Network Bandwidth Monitoring Read More?:? 14. Monitorix – System and Network MonitoringMonitorix?is a free lightweight utility that is designed to run and monitor system and network resources as many as possible in?Linux/Unix?servers. It has a built in?HTTP?web server that regularly collects system and network information and display them in graphs. It Monitorssystem load average and usage,?memory allocation,?disk driver health,?system services,?network ports,?mail statistics?(Sendmail,?Postfix,?Dovecot,etc),?MySQL statistics?and many more. It designed to monitor overall system performance and helps in detecting failures,bottlenecks,abnormal activities etc. <p class="wp-caption-text">Monitorix Monitoring Read More?:? 15. Arpwatch – Ethernet Activity MonitorArpwatch?is a kind of program that is designed to monitor Address Resolution (MAC?and?IPaddress changes) of?Ethernet?network traffic on a Linux network. It continuously keeps watch on Ethernet traffic and produces a log of?IP?and?MAC?address pair changes along with a timestamps on a network. It also has a feature to send an email alerts to administrator,when a pairing added or changes. It is very useful in detecting?ARP?spoofing on a network. Read More?:? 16. Suricata – Network Security MonitoringSuricata?is an high performance open source?Network Security?and?Intrusion Detectionand?Prevention Monitoring System?for?Linux,?FreeBSD?and?Windows.It was designed and owned by a non-profit foundation?OISF?(Open Information Security Foundation). Read More?:? 17. VnStat PHP – Monitoring Network BandwidthVnStat PHP?a web based frontend application for most popular networking tool called “vnstat“.?VnStat PHP?monitors a network traffic usage in nicely graphical mode. It displays a total?IN?and?OUT?network traffic usage in?hourly,?daily,?monthly?and?full summary?report. Read More?:? 18. Nagios – Network/Server Monitoring（编辑：济源站长网） 【声明】本站内容均来自网络，其相关言论仅代表作者个人观点，不代表本站立场。若无意侵犯到您的权利，请及时与联系站长删除相关内容! |
