10 Linux Commands To Monitor Your System's Health | Linux Today

10 Linux Commands To Monitor Your System’s Health

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 30, 2016

Monitoring the performance of a server is one of the core part of a system administrator’s job. You can do everything on a server but it’s not worth it if you are unable to trace where the system is lagging behind and what are the thresholds. The best thing about Linux is that there are hundreds of commands which can let you know what type of consumption is being done at the machine end. Followings are the commands which we will discuss in this article in order to let you know how you can monitor your system’s health and make improvements accordingly.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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