btop – the htop alternative
Have you ever experienced slow application performance on a server and wondered which process was causing the bottleneck? In a production server environment, monitoring system performance and hardware resource usage in real-time is crucial. That’s where system monitoring tools come in handy. And, with the availability of numerous command-line system monitoring tools, you’re spoiled for choice. From top, htop, glances, nmon, ytop, gtop, vtop, to atop, the list is endless!
However, one particular tool that caught my attention is btop, the aesthetically pleasing system resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network, and processes. With a few keyboard shortcuts, you can easily switch between sorting options, view detailed stats for processes, and even send a signal to a selected process.
In this blog post, we’ll quick-dive into how to use btop to monitor system resources and highlight some of its features. Plus, we’ll touch on the importance of application performance monitoring (APM) and observability for deeper and more detailed insight into your code’s effect on resources and the end-user experience.
