lsof Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to lsof for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is htop, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked seven alternatives to lsof and five of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to lsof are vtop, Sysdig, Ctop and Glsof.

lsof alternatives are mainly Process Monitoring Tools but may also be Process Management Tools or System Information Utilities. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of lsof.

lsof

Free • Open Source

Lsof lists open files for running UNIX processes. It is a descendent of ofiles, fstat, and lsof versions 1, 2, and 3.

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htop
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Free • Open Source
Process Management Tool
Process Monitoring Tool
Mac
Linux
BSD
67 htop alternatives
htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. htop is an interactive top replacement that runs in the terminal. The available columns are: PID, STATE, PPID, PGRP, SESSION, TTY_NR, TPGID, MINFLT...
- - htop is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to lsof.
- - htop is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to lsof.
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htop Features
1. Lightweighthtop consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. Command line interfacehtop either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
3. Portablehtop can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
4. Ad-freehtop doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Runs on command line
Performance Monitoring
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lsof ==> ls (list) of (open files) top/htop show processes which may or not have files associated
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vtop
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Free • Open Source
Process Monitoring Tool
Process Management Tool
System Information Utility
Mac
Linux
BSD
44 vtop alternatives
vtop is a graphical command-line tool that uses unicode braille to chart CPU and memory usage. It can be easily extended.
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vtop Features
1. Command line interfacevtop either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Terminal-based
Hardware Monitoring
Vim key mapping
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lsof ==> list open files vtop display running processes
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Sysdig
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
14 Sysdig alternatives
Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Think of it as strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce.
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Sysdig Features
Memory Monitoring
Container monitoring
Application Monitoring
CPU Monitoring
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Ctop
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Free • Open Source
Linux
Go (Programming Language)
Docker
29 Ctop alternatives
Top-like interface for container metrics. ctop provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers as well as a single container view for inspecting a specific container.
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Ctop Features
Hardware Monitoring
Support for Docker
CPU Monitoring
Glsof
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Free • Open Source
Process Monitoring Tool
Linux
6 Glsof alternatives
Glsof is two separate utilities (Queries & FileMonitor) to the command line utility Lsof by Vic Abell. Both applications are written in Java. Another fundamental requirement is the command line Lsof that has to be installed on your system.
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GUI companion to lsof, not so much an alternative this is Java code that gives some interaction to an otherwise pretty basic command showing open files "lsof"
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