{"id":5231,"date":"2014-07-16T05:27:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T21:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2023-09-18T15:57:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T15:57:34","slug":"how-to-install-and-use-glances-system-monitor-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/how-to-install-and-use-glances-system-monitor-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install and use Glances – System Monitor In Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are various default system monitor tools in Ubuntu<\/a> that come with basic functions. However, there is recommended powerful free monitoring called Glances – An eye on your system. Glances is the monitoring tools that used to monitor GNU\/Linux or BSD operating system from a command line interface and it uses the library libstatgrab to retrieve information and it is written in Python. The steps on this post was tested on Ubuntu 14.04 linux.<\/p>\n

1. How to install glances on Ubuntu :<\/p>\n

\r\nehowstuff@ubuntu14:~$ sudo apt-get install glances -y\r\n<\/pre>\n
2. To start glances simply type glances<\/strong> from command line :<\/p>\n
\r\nehowstuff@ubuntu14:~$ glances\r\n<\/pre>\n
\"Monitor-Ubuntu-Glances-1\"<\/p>\n
There are a lot of information retrieved about the resources of your system such as CPU, Load, Memory, Swap Network, Disk I\/O and Processes all in one page, by default the color code means:<\/p>\n
\r\nGREEN : the statistic is \u201cOK\u201d\r\nBLUE : the statistic is \u201cCAREFUL\u201d (to watch)\r\nVIOLET : the statistic is \u201cWARNING\u201d (alert)\r\nRED : the statistic is \u201cCRITICAL\u201d (critical)\r\n<\/pre>\n
3. By default, interval time is set to \u20191\u2018 second. You can change the interval by issue the following command :<\/p>\n
\r\nehowstuff@ubuntu14:~$ glances -t 2\r\n<\/pre>\n
4. Once in the glaces monitoring screen, press h<\/strong> to find out more hot keys<\/strong> to gather output information while glances is running.
\n\"Monitor-Ubuntu-Glances-2\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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