Questions tagged [monitoring]

Questions about all kinds of monitoring. E.g. "How to monitor the network traffic?"

This tag is for questions about all kinds of monitoring. E.g. "How to monitor the network traffic?" Usually this tag should be pared with other tags like "internet" or "network".

Every computer does a lot of things in the background which can be monitored and logged. Disk usage, network or internet traffic, processor usage, memory consumption, etc. Each of these issues may be monitored by corresponding tools.

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How do you monitor the progress of dd?

dd is a wonder. It lets you duplicate a hard drive to another, completely zero a hard drive, etc. But once you launch a dd command, there's nothing to tell you of its progress. It just sits there at the cursor until the command finally finishes. So…
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How do I get the CPU temperature?

How do I get the CPU temperature?
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How can I monitor the memory usage?

I have used top to see the memory usage at the moment. But I would like to monitor the memory usage over a period of time. E.g start monitoring and then execute a few commands, and final stop the monitoring and see how much memory that have been…
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Repeat a command every x interval of time in terminal?

How can I repeat a command every interval of time , so that it will allow me to run commands for checking or monitoring directories ? There is no need for a script, i need just a simple command to be executed in terminal.
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What system monitoring tools are available?

I am looking for system monitoring tools which are GUI and CLI or web-based which include basic functions such as: CPU Usage Ram Usage Swap Usage Disk Usage ( Space / I/O ) Heat Monitoring I know there are many tools I can use, but I am looking for…
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How to install "perf" monitoring tool?

How do I install the perf monitoring tool?
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How to monitor disk activity?

How do I view my Disk Activity on Ubuntu? For example, How can I monitor what is being written and read from disk as well as the percentage of disk usage? I am looking for an application similar to the Resource Monitor in Windows.
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Dropbox error - 'echo 100000 | sudo tee / proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches'

Dropbox gives me an error that mentions echo tee 100000 but then it disappears. How to fix or remove msg?
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How do I monitor power consumption?

The powertop program shows the power usage, but only after about five minutes. Before that, it shows: no ACPI power usage estimate available That's one of the limitations of the powertop program. What program is recommended for reliably monitoring…
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Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, native host connector is not detected

On a fresh install of 18.10 I attempted to install CPU usage widget https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/120/system-monitor/ on that link it errors showing : Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, native host connector is not…
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What tools do you use to monitor a web server?

What tools do you use to monitor a Ubuntu web server? More specifically, I'd like to monitor server uptime, resource usage (RAM, CPU, bandwidth, etc.), Apache, MySQL and PHP.
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How can I monitor the TBW on my Samsung SSD?

As is common knowledge, SSDs have a limited number of PE (Program-Erase) cycles before the NAND cells die. Therefore, it is very helpful to know how much data has been written to your SSD, in order to determine how much longer it will last before…
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How to track the total network data in a month

I can see the data transferred (internet Download/Upload) in the current session from the System Monitor . But I want something that keeps track of all the data transferred and I can see how much data was used in a month or two. Preferably a GUI…
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How does my sys admin know that I haven't rebooted my system?

I got an email from my system administrator saying that I needed to reboot my system to apply some patches. I had forgotten about it and after a couple of hours I got another mail telling me that I was yet to reboot my system. I have since rebooted…
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How to tell which processes are uploading and downloading data (and how much)?

I can see in my System Monitor that data is being uploaded and downloaded, I can see in Etherape which sites it's connecting to and which protocol is being used. However without looking at the actual packets in WireShark and then finding the port…
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