Top 10 ways to monitor Linux in a Terminal

Dig deeper into Linux performance with these 'top' 10 tools! I also wrote this up on my blog, if you prefer to read instead of watch :) https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/top-10-ways-monitor-linux-console And here are links to docs or setup guides for each of the tools: - top: https://linux.die.net/man/1/top - s-tui: https://amanusk.github.io/s-tui/ - htop: https://htop.dev - atop: https://linux.die.net/man/1/atop - iftop: https://linux.die.net/man/8/iftop - iotop: https://github.com/Tomas-M/iotop - nvtop: https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop - asitop: https://github.com/tlkh/asitop - btop: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop - perf: https://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html - wavemon: https://github.com/uoaerg/wavemon Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geerlingguy Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy Merch: https://www.redshirtjeff.com Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JeffGeerling 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GeerlingEngineering Contents: 00:00 - top 00:44 - s-tui 01:37 - htop 02:02 - atop 02:48 - iftop 03:26 - iotop and csysdig 04:11 - nvtop 05:07 - asitop 05:49 - btop 07:06 - perf 08:03 - wavemon