Resource Monitor Alternatives for Linux

Resource Monitor is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is htop, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Resource Monitor and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Resource Monitor are btop++, Mission Center, Resources and Glances.

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  1. Ctop icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Docker
     
  2. jdSystemMonitor is an advanced, desktop-independent system monitor for Linux. Its goal is to provide as much information about your system as possible, with a focus on process management.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  3.  1 like

    Fuzzy find and kill processes from your terminal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Homebrew
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Nix Package Manager
     
  4. Monitorets icon
     1 like

    Monitorets is a small utility application offering a simple and quick view at the usage of several of your computer resources. Almost like an applet or a widget for your Linux desktop.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. lsof icon
     8 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. psutil icon
     12 likes

    psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, users) in a portable way by using Python, implementing many functionalities offered by command line tools such as: ps, top, df...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. nmon icon
     13 likes

    This systems administrator, tuner, benchmark tool gives you a huge amount of important performance information in one go. It can output the data in two ways

    21 nmon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Atop icon
     7 likes

    An advanced interactive monitor for Linux-systems to view the load on system-level and process-level.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9.  8 likes

    Linux has always been able to show how much I/O was going on (the bi and bo columns of the vmstat 1 command).

    11 Iotop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. LXTask icon
     5 likes

    LXTask is the standard task manager and system monitor of LXDE. It starts via Ctrl+Alt+Del and is extremely lightweight.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Sysprof icon
     1 like

    Find and fix performance problems.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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