Monitor your system with Glances

Glances is a comprehensive system monitoring utility designed to deliver detailed process information in a concise and adaptable format. It offers both curses-based and web-based interfaces that dynamically adjust to various screen sizes.

Quickstart

Glances usually provides three modes.

• Standalone

• Client

• Web server

In this article, we will be discussing only standalone mode and client mode.

Standalone Mode

To get started with standalone mode, you simply need to open glances in your system terminal:

$ glances

It is also possible to display RAW (Python) stat directly to stdout, by:

$ glances --stdout cpu.user,mem.used,load,network.wlp2s0.bytes_all

If you need, you can also withdraw your system information in CSV format by using stdout-csv command in glances:

$ glances --stdout-csv now,cpu.user,mem.used,load

Or, in JSON format, by using the stdout-json command:

$ glances --stdout-json cpu,mem

All the information will be displayed in one line per stat per refresh. You can also change the refresh interval.

Client Mode

If anyone want to run the glances on a remote device, called client. Then you can easily access your cloud server information by using this command:

client$ glances -c @server

where @server is the hostname or the IP address of the server. To find more information on login to our servers, please read our blog on login to Uni-Datacenter cluster or contact your system admin.

In case if you find any issue in login or accessing to your system. Please contact us at admin-help@uni-datacenter.com