Atop Alternatives

Atop is described as 'An advanced interactive monitor for Linux-systems to view the load on system-level and process-level' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Atop for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, BSD, Windows and Web-based apps. The best Atop alternative is htop, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Atop are Glances, witr, Bashtop and rip-cli.

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  1. htop icon
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    htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. htop is an interactive top replacement that runs in the terminal. The available columns are: PID, STATE, PPID, PGRP, SESSION, TTY_NR, TPGID, MINFLT...

    74 htop alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • htop is the most popular Linux alternative to Atop.

    • htop is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Atop.

    • htop is Free and Open SourceAtop is also Free and Open Source
    • htop is LightweightAtop is not according to our users
  2. Glances icon
     68 likes

    Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a large amount of monitoring information through a curses or Web based interface. The information dynamically adapts depending on the size of the user interface.

    69 Glances alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • Glances is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Atop.

    • Glances is Free and Open SourceAtop is also Free and Open Source
    • Glances is LightweightAtop is not according to our users
  3. witr icon
     2 likes

    CLI diagnostic tool for tracing processes and their causal ancestry, explaining origins, supervising service, context like directories and containers, risk signals, with support for Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, platform-specific inspection, JSON output, and open licensing.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
  4.  1 like

    Fuzzy find and kill processes from your terminal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Homebrew
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Nix Package Manager
     
  5. Usage icon
     1 like

    System Activity Monitor for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Customizable, precise, and lightweight apps to keep an eye on the activity and performance of your devices.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • Usage is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Atop.

    • Usage is Freemium and ProprietaryAtop is Free and Open Source
    • Usage is Lightweight and Privacy focusedAtop is not according to our users
  6.  2 likes

    The top program provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It can display system summary information as well as a list of processes or threads currently being managed by the Linux kernel.

    12 top alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Resource Monitor is a system application in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is used to view information about the use of hardware (CPU, memory, disk, and network) and software (file handles and modules) resources in real time.

    54 Resource Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. psutil icon
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    psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, users) in a portable way by using Python, implementing many functionalities offered by command line tools such as: ps, top, df...

    22 psutil alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. nmon icon
     13 likes

    This systems administrator, tuner, benchmark tool gives you a huge amount of important performance information in one go. It can output the data in two ways

    21 nmon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10.  8 likes

    Linux has always been able to show how much I/O was going on (the bi and bo columns of the vmstat 1 command).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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