ngrep – A Network Packet Analyzer for Linux
Ngrep (network grep) is a simple yet powerful network packet analyzer. It is a grep-like tool applied to the network layer – it matches traffic passing over a network interface. It allows you to...
Category: Monitoring Tools
Swatchdog – Simple Log File Watcher in Real-Time in Linux
Swatchdog (the “Simple WATCH DOG”) is a simple Perl script for monitoring active log files on Unix-like systems such as Linux. It watches your logs based on regular expressions that you can define in...
6 Useful Tools to Monitor MongoDB Performance
We recently showed how to install MongoDB in Ubuntu 18.04. Once you have successfully deployed your database, you need to monitor its performance while it is running. This is one of the most important...
How to Monitor Linux Server Security with Osquery
Osquery is a free open source, powerful and cross-platform SQL-based operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics framework for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and Mac/OS X systems, built by Facebook. It is a simple and easy-to-use...
whowatch – Monitor Linux Users and Processes in Real Time
whowatch is a simple, easy-to-use interactive who-like command line program for monitoring processes and users on a Linux system. It shows who is logged on to your system and what they are doing, in...
Scout_Realtime – Monitor Server and Process Metrics in Linux
In the past, we’ve covered lots of command-line based tools for monitoring Linux performance, such as top, htop, atop, glances and more, and a number of web based tools such as cockpit, pydash, linux-dash,...
CBM – Shows Network Bandwidth in Ubuntu
CBM (Color Bandwidth Meter) is a simple tool that shows the current network traffic on all connected devices in colors in Ubuntu Linux. It is used to monitor network bandwidth. It shows the network...
ctop – Top-like Interface for Monitoring Docker Containers
ctop is a free open source, simple and cross-platform top-like command-line tool for monitoring container metrics in real-time. It allows you to get an overview of metrics concerning CPU, memory, network, I/O for multiple...
MTR – A Network Diagnostic Tool for Linux
MTR is a simple, cross-platform command-line network diagnostic tool that combines the functionality of commonly used traceroute and ping programs into a single tool. In a similar fashion as traceroute, mtr prints information about...
Tuned – Automatic Performance Tuning of CentOS/RHEL Servers
To maximize the end-to-end performance of services, applications and databases on a server, system administrators usually carry out custom performance tunning, using various tools, both generic operating system tools as well as third-party tools....
