
With Glance, we can monitor CPU, Load Average, Memory, Network Interfaces, Disk I/O, Processes and File System spaces utilization.


Glances is a cross-platform command-line curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python language which use the psutil library to grab informations from the system. Because top command doesn’t have a ability to highlights programs that are eating too much of CPU, RAM, other resources.įor keeping such approach, here we are bringing a powerful system monitor program called “ Glances” that automatically highlights programs that are utilizing highest system resources and providing maximum of information about Linux/Unix server. However, sometimes its very tricky to find an application/process that consuming lots of system resources is a bit difficult under top. It has a nice minimalist interface, comes with few amount of reasonable options that enables us to get a better idea about overall system performance quickly. The top command is real time task manager in Linux and the most frequently used system monitoring tool in GNU/ Linux distributions to find the performance related bottlenecks in system which help us to take corrective actions.

Earlier, we’ve written about many Linux System Monitor Tools that can be used to monitor performance of Linux systems, but we think that, most users prefer the default one that comes with every Linux distributions ( top command).
