{"id":149,"date":"2007-10-11T22:34:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T02:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/2007\/10\/11\/more-tops-to-keep-you-on-top\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T22:36:35","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T02:36:35","slug":"more-tops-to-keep-you-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"More &#8216;tops&#8217; to Keep you on Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I posted about how htop was my new replacement for top on all Linux systems I manage. Tonight, while looking through the Google search words that lead people to my site, I found a Google result page which contained a &#39;hit&#39; that immediately caught my eye. <a href=\"http:\/\/immike.net\/blog\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mike Malone\">Mike Malone<\/a>, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/immike.net\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"I&#39;m Mike Blog\">I&#39;m Mike blog<\/a> had an entry titled &#39;<a href=\"http:\/\/immike.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/10\/top-5-tops-keep-tabs-on-your-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Top 5 tops: keep tabs on your system\">Top 5 tops: keep tabs on your system<\/a>&#39;. In it, he describes not only the htop utility I came across earlier, but 4 additional tops to make any Linux administrator smile.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mtop.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"mtop\"><strong>mtop<\/strong><\/a> (MySQL top) monitors a MySQL server showing the queries which are  taking the most amount of time to complete. Features include &#39;zooming&#39; in on a process to show the complete query, &#39;explaining&#39; the query optimizer information for a query and &#39;killing&#39; queries. In addition, server performance statistics, configuration information, and tuning tips are provided.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freshmeat.net\/projects\/apachetop\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Apachetop\"><strong>Apachetop<\/strong><\/a> is a curses-based top-like display for Apache information, including requests per second, bytes per second, most popular URLs, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ex-parrot.com\/~pdw\/iftop\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"iftop\">iftop<\/a><\/strong> does for network usage what top does for CPU usage.  It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts.  Handy for answering the question &quot;why is our ADSL link so slow?&quot;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/htop.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"htop\"><strong>htop<\/strong><\/a>, an interactive process viewer for Linux<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atcomputing.nl\/Tools\/atop\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"atop\"><strong>atop<\/strong><\/a> is a performance monitor that can display:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Resource consumption by <em>all<\/em> processes<\/li>\n<li>Utilization of all relevant resources<\/li>\n<li>Permanent logging of resource utilization<\/li>\n<li>Highlight critical resources<\/li>\n<li>Watch activity only<\/li>\n<li>Watch deviations only<\/li>\n<li>     Accumulated process activity per user<\/li>\n<li>     Accumulated process activity per program<\/li>\n<li>     Disk and network activity per process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ol>\n<p>While I use mtop on a regular basis, and have now started using htop, the other 3 monitors definitely look like they&#39;re going to be part of my &#39;tools&#39; for the various servers I manage. iftop and apachetop seem especially interesting to me, given their more <em>specialized<\/em> monitoring target. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/immike.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/10\/top-5-tops-keep-tabs-on-your-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Top 5 tops: keep tabs on your system\">I&#39;m Mike | Top 5 tops: keep tabs on your system &#8211; http:\/\/immike.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/10\/top-5-tops-keep-tabs-on-your-system\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I posted about how htop was my new replacement for top on all Linux systems I manage. Tonight, while looking through the Google search words that lead people to my site, I found a Google result page which contained a &#39;hit&#39; that immediately caught my eye. Mike Malone, of the I&#39;m Mike blog had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,7,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-bookmarks","category-geek-stuff","category-linux","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA6RZ-2p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}