Top, Htop or Atop: - which one is more apropiate (?) and which one do you use?

[dhubs]

good evening dear linux-friends,

note: do not know if this topic suits here well - i thought that it is a good place to post it here to the "beginner" sub-forum - since i am trying to find out which monitoring option is the best.

which monitoring procedure do you use - wich one is the best for you? - well - some friends mentioned recently that ATOP is a bit more intuitive than htop. - so i am a bit confused now.

well. the Top command from the procps package has long been the somewhat default general-purpose system monitor - at least for me!
i have used it several Linux system - (note i ve used opensuse, Ubuntu, Mandrive, Antix and Endeavour)
Some of my colleagues appreciate the Top system monitor as an effective tool for detecting system problems.

well looking at the internet - and doing some recherche there is more: i have learned that there are some other options: The alternatives Htop, Atop and Glances expand its possibilities.

question: what do you use(!?) and why?


what's your throught?

thanks for your ideas - thoughts.

Greeting

 

[KGIII]

I'm an HTOP guy, largely for the colors and options.

 

[kc1di]

I also use Htop it's seem better than the others to me.

 

[dhubs]

good day dear KGill good day dear kc1di

many thanks for your replies - and for sharing your ideas. Awesome: i will have a closer look at the Htop
it seems to offer some great options.

btw: Thank you for this awesome forum - and for the options of sharing ideas, thoughts, experiences
This is just outstanding.

Awesome - thank you so much!!

Greetings

 

[Trenix25]

I have top running on one of my virtual consoles all the time. It has a nice blue color. I use a split window to use two windows. top allows me to choose what is displayed.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell

 

[Fanboi]

Yep, Htopper here, too!

 

[KGIII]

btw: Thank you for this awesome forum - and for the options of sharing ideas, thoughts, experiences
This is just outstanding.

Welcome aboard. We're the nice Linux forum.

We're the nicest Linux forum on the 'net! If you plan on hanging around, feel free to create a new thread in the member introductions section of the forum so that you can tell us a bit about yourself and your Linux journey.

 

[Zev]

I do mainly use HTOP, but I am also partial towards BTOP if I am feeling fancy.

Addendum (BTOP):

 

[MuttMutt]

I use plain old top on my TrueNAS and OpnSense systems because I rarely need it and don't feel the need to install something else if I just want to check things here or there. On my desktop I have both htop and btop installed but it's mainly since I have a few more bells and whistles there anyway.

IMHO it breaks down to what you want and need for the system you are using it on. A server where you need something small, simple, and just works I am of the opinion that top is the one which will do what it needs when needed and just work. Probably why top is installed by default on a lot of OS'

If top doesn't meet your needs or you need a way to quickly visually differentiate a process htop seems to do a good job of dealing with it. If there are GPU's in the system being used to process data then btop will be helpful. Honestly I may start to use htop on my servers since it does give a little more visual representation on what is running and what resources are in use but btop adding the network and GPU information is a bit too much.

Anyway for a simple comparison here are top, atop, btop, and htop running.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Just use whichever one you prefer.