Saidar - another system monitoring tool

I have written about several linux system monitoring tools that you can run on the terminal like htop and nmon. Today's article is about Saidar, another text-based tool that you can use to monitor your Linux system or your Linux dedicated server.

Saidar is a curses-based application to display system statistics. It use the libstatgrab library, which provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it's run. Reported statistics include CPU, load, processes, memory,swap, network input and output and disks activities along with their free space.

Here is the screenshot of Saidar in action:

To install Saidar in Ubuntu or other similar Debian-based distro, just run the following command:

 sudo apt-get install saidar  

To use Saidar, all you need is to open the terminal and type "saidar"