Atoptool/atop

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1054 stars · 129 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor for Linux that reports system-level activity (CPU, memory, swap, disks, network) and per-process/thread resource consumption, including finished processes. It supports daily logging for long-term analysis, cgroup views, and optional per-process network and GPU monitoring.

Use cases

• monitor cpu memory disk and network utilization on linux
• find which processes consumed resources including ones that exited
• log system activity daily for long-term performance analysis
• view resource usage per cgroup and docker container
• monitor gpu activity per process on linux
• generate system activity reports from historical logs
• troubleshoot server performance issues over ssh

When to choose

• you need deep per-process resource accounting on Linux including exited processes
• you want persistent logging of system and process activity for later analysis
• you need cgroup/container-level resource visibility
• you prefer a powerful terminal-based monitor over GUI dashboards

When to avoid

• you need a web-based dashboard or multi-host aggregation
• you are monitoring non-Linux systems
• you only need simple real-time metrics without historical logging

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

monitoring logging developer-tools monitoring performance cli system-monitor process-monitor performance-analysis resource-utilization cgroups gpu-monitoring docker long-term-logging devops command-line linux

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