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At the console in the GUI it is easy to pull up the System monitor to see CPU load, Memory usage, and Network utilization.

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As I mention in this answer:

System Monitor doesn't accurately show memory usage

I use the htop command sometimes, but am more interested in seeing a running history trend just like System-monitor instead of instantaneous values like htop shows

So is there a character terminal equivalent that can show trends and also run over ssh connections?

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    Possible duplicate of [System monitor in console mode](https://askubuntu.com/questions/191750/system-monitor-in-console-mode) – muru Oct 31 '17 at 05:34
  • Also, plenty of CLI commands in https://askubuntu.com/questions/293426/system-monitoring-tools-for-ubuntu – muru Oct 31 '17 at 05:35
  • Edited to explain why this is not a duplicate. Also provided a lot of detail about `htop` in the answer I referenced that are missing from the duplicate that was flagged. – SDsolar Oct 31 '17 at 05:40
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    :shrug: Since the entire point of this question is to share your knowledge, I don't see why you can't simply post this answer on the dupe instead of going through all this bother to differentiate this question. – muru Oct 31 '17 at 05:41

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One option is to use dstat

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dstat

then run it by simply entering

dstat

to get this default output which updates every second and provides column headers with every screenful:

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dstat is very versatile. Here is an article that explains the command line switches and shows some of the advanced options:

5+ “dstat” Command Usage Examples in Linux

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  • Actually, after writing this post I discovered that it works really well to use Xming with PuTTY to get an X11 terminal over `ssh` - not on point of the question, but if I had discovered this first the question would not have been necessary: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/geoschem/docs/putty_install.html – SDsolar Oct 31 '17 at 05:48