Glances - An Advanced Real Time System Monitoring Tool for Linux | Linux Today

Glances – An Advanced Real Time System Monitoring Tool for Linux

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Ravi Saive
Feb 18, 2014

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

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Ravi Saive

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