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Glances real-time system monitoring
Just discovered this neat cross-platform monitoring tool called Glances. It shows CPU/RAM/disk stats in terminal with color coding, even has a web UI mode! Perfect for checking VPS health without SSH clients. The auto-process sorting helps spot resource hogs quickly.
But why is it less popular than htop? Does anyone use alternatives like Netdata or Bashtop? Share your favorite lightweight monitoring hacks! 
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Glances is nice but I think btop is a lot prettier
https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
more sisters plz
bpytop is also very nice, it’s like an btop with some stuff sprinkled on top though
I use Netdata, used to use their Cloud platform until they made it paid for more than 5 nodes per account, now I just use it selfhosted. You use it in the web browser instead of having to SSH in every time to view the stats, so you can access it on any device easily. Glances shows you all the stats on a single screen though, so both are good.
Solid setup! I'm also self-hosting Netdata now after their pricing changes. The dashboard works great on mobile browsers during server emergencies 😅. Do you tweak alert thresholds for self-hosted instances? I ended up disabling half the default metrics to save resources.
Btop's UI is definitely eye candy!
No, I leave them on the default settings because Netdata doesn't use much resources. But I use dedicated servers most of the time, so maybe it's different for virtual servers.