Open Source Linux System Monitoring Tools
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System Monitoring Tools for Linux
View 29 business solutionsBrowse free open source System Monitoring tools and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source System Monitoring tools by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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AI-generated apps that pass security reviewRetool lets you generate dashboards, admin panels, and workflows directly on your data. Type something like “Build me a revenue dashboard on my Stripe data” and get a working app with security, permissions, and compliance built in from day one. Whether on our cloud or self-hosted, create the internal software your team needs without compromising enterprise standards or control.
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LibreHardwareMonitor
Monitor temperature sensors, fan speed, voltage, load & clock speeds
Libre Hardware Monitor is a free, open-source system monitoring tool that provides detailed insights into your computer’s hardware health and performance. It tracks real-time metrics such as temperatures, fan speeds, voltages, clock speeds, and load across a wide range of components. The project includes both a Windows Forms application for visual monitoring and a reusable library for developers who want to integrate hardware monitoring into their own software. LibreHardwareMonitor supports modern Intel and AMD CPUs, major GPU vendors, storage devices, and network adapters. Built on modern .NET versions, it continues to evolve with frequent updates and broad community contributions. Licensed under MPL 2.0, it offers a transparent and extensible alternative to proprietary hardware monitoring tools. -
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3X-UI
Xray panel supporting multi-protocol multi-user expire day
3X‑UI is an enhanced fork of the X‑UI project, serving as a multifunctional web panel to manage VPN services. It supports multi‑protocol configurations (like VMess, VLESS, Trojan, Shadowsocks, WireGuard), offers traffic and user limits, SSL management, multilingual support, and integrates Telegram notifications for system events. Advanced, open-source web-based control panel designed for managing Xray-core server. It offers a user-friendly interface for configuring and monitoring various VPN and proxy protocols. As an enhanced fork of the original X-UI project, 3X-UI provides improved stability, broader protocol support, and additional features. -
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TaskExplorer
Powerful system task manager
TaskExplorer is a powerful system task-manager / process-inspector tool designed for Windows that goes well beyond the capabilities of the built-in Task Manager. It provides real-time insights into running processes, threads, open handles, network sockets, memory usage, modules loaded, and more — all in a unified, fast, and efficient GUI. Rather than scattering information across tabs or dialogs, TaskExplorer displays detailed data in a panel layout: when you select a process, the lower panel updates dynamically to show relevant info (threads, handles, sockets, modules, etc.), making deep inspection quick and intuitive. It includes advanced panels: a Thread Panel with stack traces (helpful for diagnosing deadlocks or hangs), a Memory Panel that lets you view or even edit process memory (with search capabilities), a Socket Panel showing open network connections, data rates, pseudo-UDP connections (via ETW), and a Modules Panel listing all loaded DLLs and memory-mapped files. -
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Network Security Toolkit (NST)
A network security analysis and monitoring toolkit Linux distribution.
Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable ISO image (Live USB Flash Drive) based on Fedora 42 providing easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86_64 systems. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the security professional and network administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools. The majority of tools published in the article: Top 125 Security Tools by INSECURE.ORG are available in the toolkit. An advanced Web User Interface (WUI) is provided for system/network administration, navigation, automation, network monitoring, host geolocation, network analysis and configuration of many network and security applications found within the NST distribution. In the virtual world, NST can be used as a network security analysis, validation and monitoring tool on enterprise virtual servers hosting virtual machines. -
MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhereMongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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Monitoring AIX, VMware,Oracle, Nutanix
AIX, Linux, VMware, Nutanix, Oracle, RHV, Cloud performance monitoring
The tool offers you end-to-end views of your server environment and can save you significant money in operation monitoring by predicting utilization bottlenecks in your virtualized environment. You can also generate policy-based alerts, capacity reports and load forecasts. The product supports these virtualization platforms: - IBM Power Systems - VMware - Nutanix - Proxmox - Huawei FusionCompute - OracleVM - Oracle Solaris LDOM, CDOM, Zone - oVirt / RedHat Virtualization (RHV) - MS Windows and Hyper-V - XenServer, Citrix - Amazon Web Services - Google Cloud - Microsoft Azure - IBM Cloud - Kubernetes - Docker - Red Hat OpenShift - Apache CloudStack - PostgreSQL database - Oracle Database - Microsoft SQL Server Try demo at http://demo.lpar2rrd.com -
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Pulse
Real-time monitoring for Proxmox, Docker, and Kubernetes
Pulse is a modern infrastructure monitoring platform that provides a unified, visually polished dashboard for environments running Proxmox, Docker, and Kubernetes. It is designed to give operators a single pane of glass for observing system health, metrics, and alerts without the complexity typically associated with enterprise monitoring stacks. The platform aggregates telemetry from multiple infrastructure layers and presents it through a responsive web interface optimized for homelabs, managed service providers, and system administrators. Pulse incorporates smart alerting capabilities and optional AI-assisted insights that help users interpret infrastructure events and detect anomalies faster. Its architecture supports automatic discovery of nodes and persistent metric storage, enabling both real-time visibility and historical analysis. Overall, Pulse positions itself as a modern, self-hosted observability solution that balances usability, automation, and cross-platform coverage. -
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Phoronix Test Suite
Open-Source, Automated Benchmarking
The Phoronix Test Suite is the most comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform available that provides an extensible framework for which new tests can be easily added. The Phoronix Test Suite is designed to effectively carry out both benchmarks in a clean, reproducible, and easy-to-use manner. -
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NeoHtop
Blazing-fast system monitoring for your desktop
NeoHtop is a modern, high-performance system monitoring application that reimagines the classic htop experience using contemporary technologies such as Rust, Tauri, and Svelte. It provides real-time visibility into running processes, CPU load, and memory usage through a visually polished desktop interface designed for speed and clarity. Unlike traditional terminal monitors, neohtop emphasizes usability with advanced search capabilities, process pinning, and dynamic sorting, allowing users to quickly identify resource-intensive workloads. The application supports dark and light themes and auto-refreshes system statistics to maintain an always-current operational view. Its cross-platform architecture makes it suitable for developers and power users who want a responsive graphical alternative to legacy tools. By combining a modern UI stack with efficient Rust back-end logic, neohtop aims to deliver both performance and an improved user experience for everyday system monitoring tasks. -
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File system/directory monitoring utilities with loggin and task processing support (can execute files or make a WCF service call). Multiple configuration options. Source code libraries can be used to create a custom file system monitor.
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Gorse Recommender System Engine
An open source recommender system service written in Go
An open-source recommender system service written in Go. Recommend items from Popular, latest, user-based, item-based and collaborative filtering. Search the best recommendation model automatically in the background. Support horizontal scaling in the recommendation stage after single node training. Support Redis, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, and ClickHouse as its storage backend. Expose RESTful APIs for data CRUD and recommendation requests. Analyze online recommendation performance from recently inserted feedback. Provide GUI for data management, system monitoring, and cluster status checking. Gorse is an open-source recommendation system written in Go. Gorse aims to be a universal open-source recommender system that can be easily introduced into a wide variety of online services. By importing items, users and interaction data into Gorse, the system will automatically train models to generate recommendations for each user. -
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Provides high level bindings to Windows APIs from the Tcl scripting language.
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s-tui
Terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility
s-tui (Stress Terminal UI) is a terminal-based performance monitoring and stress-testing tool focused specifically on CPU behavior analysis in Linux and other UNIX-like systems. It provides real-time graphical visualization of CPU temperature, frequency, power consumption, and utilization directly within a text-based interface, eliminating the need for a graphical desktop environment. The utility is particularly useful for diagnosing thermal throttling, validating cooling solutions, and evaluating system stability under heavy load conditions. In addition to passive monitoring, s-tui can integrate with external stress tools to actively push the CPU to its limits while simultaneously displaying performance metrics. The software is lightweight, scriptable, and well suited for remote environments such as SSH sessions or small devices like Raspberry Pi. -
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grafana-dashboards-kubernetes
A set of modern Grafana dashboards for Kubernetes
grafana-dashboards-kubernetes is a curated collection of modern Grafana dashboards tailored specifically for monitoring Kubernetes clusters using Prometheus-based metrics. The project aims to provide clear, practical visualizations that help DevOps teams quickly understand cluster health, workload behavior, and infrastructure performance. Rather than attempting to expose every possible metric, the dashboards are designed to be operationally useful and easy to navigate during day-to-day troubleshooting. They leverage newer Grafana panel capabilities and are commonly used alongside kube-prometheus-stack deployments. The dashboards allow users to drill down from high-level cluster views to detailed pod-level insights, supporting rapid root-cause analysis. Overall, the project serves as a production-ready observability layer that accelerates Kubernetes monitoring setup and improves situational awareness. -
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Procinfo-NG is a complete rewrite of the old system monitoring app procinfo. The goal is to make more readable (and reusable) code and to restore broken functionality. Procinfo was written for Linux 1.2, and updated through 2.2. Procinfo-NG is for 2.6.
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Zenoss Community Edition
Zenoss - Intelligent IT Operations Management
Zenoss provides software-defined IT operations for the world’s largest organizations. We deliver the ultimate level of IT service health with simplicity by providing the most granular and intelligent IT service modeling possible, at any scale, and sharing these unique insights with other IT operations management (ITOM) tools to make them more efficient. Zenoss Community Edition is not a “demo” or trial version of Zenoss Enterprise or Zenoss Cloud! Before You install Zenoss Community Edition, check out Zenoss Cloud, our new Saas-based platform for intelligent IT operations management, designed for enterprise hybrid IT environments. https://www.zenoss.com/product/zenoss-cloud-it-operations-management Zenoss Cloud extends your monitoring capabilities well beyond those available in our Community Edition. View the differences here: https://www.zenoss.com/get-started Features of Zenoss Cloud include: -
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Monitoring Plugins
A suite of Monitoring Plugins (formerly known as nagios-plugins)
Monitoring Plugins is a collection of open-source plugins designed to work with Nagios and other monitoring systems. These plugins perform various checks on hosts and services, providing administrators with essential information about system health and performance. The suite includes a wide range of plugins written in C, Perl, and other languages. -
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OpenStatus
Status page with uptime monitoring & API monitoring as code
OpenStatus is an open-source synthetic monitoring and status page platform designed to help teams track the availability and performance of websites, APIs, and services from multiple global locations. It continuously probes configured endpoints and alerts users when latency thresholds are exceeded or outages occur, enabling proactive incident response. The platform also generates customizable public or private status pages that automatically reflect real-time service health, improving transparency with customers and stakeholders. Built with modern web technologies such as Next.js and Tailwind CSS, openstatus supports both managed deployments and self-hosted environments using lightweight Docker images. Its monitoring-as-code approach allows teams to define checks in YAML and integrate them into CI/CD workflows for automated validation. -
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RuoYi-Vue-Pro is an enterprise-level, full-stack admin management system based on Spring Boot and Vue 3. It features a modular architecture with RBAC permissions, multi-tenant support, workflow engine integration, monitoring, logging, and microservice compatibility. Built for scalability and maintainability, it’s designed for Chinese-speaking developers building robust backend management systems, and includes tools for user, role, and permission management, data visualization, and more.
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heim
Cross-platform async library for system information fetching
Heim is a cross-platform system monitoring library written in Rust, providing real-time metrics for CPU, memory, and other resources. -
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psutil
Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python
psutil is a widely adopted cross-platform Python library designed to retrieve detailed information about system utilization and running processes in a consistent and programmatic way. It exposes a rich API that allows developers to inspect CPU usage, memory consumption, disk activity, network statistics, and hardware sensors without relying on platform-specific tools. The library effectively replicates and unifies the capabilities of classic UNIX utilities such as ps, top, netstat, and free, making it especially valuable for monitoring, profiling, and process management workflows. Because it supports multiple operating systems including Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD variants, psutil enables developers to build portable observability tools and automation scripts. It is commonly used in performance dashboards, resource limiters, and infrastructure monitoring agents due to its lightweight footprint and mature ecosystem. -
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Linux Engineer Toolkit Live
Portable Linux engineer toolkit for recovery, repair & data rescue
Linux Engineer Toolkit (LengToolkit) Live is a specialized, recovery-oriented Linux distribution designed for system engineers and IT professionals. Operating exclusively in Live mode, it provides a robust environment to rescue failing systems, recover lost data, and manage disk infrastructures without the need for installation. Website: https://nixovena.org/lengtoolkit -
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BCC (BPF Compiler Collection)
Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, etc.
BCC is a toolkit that simplifies creating efficient kernel tracing, monitoring, and manipulation programs by leveraging extended Berkeley Packet Filters (eBPF). It includes a rich set of example tools and scripting interfaces in C, Python, and Lua. BCC makes BPF programs easier to write, with kernel instrumentation in C (and includes a C wrapper around LLVM), and front-ends in Python and lua. It is suited for many tasks, including performance analysis and network traffic control. With a BPF-specific frontend, one should be able to write in a language and receive feedback from the compiler on the validity as it pertains to a BPF backend. This toolkit aims to provide a frontend that can only create valid BPF programs while still harnessing its full flexibility. -
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MCP Monitor
A system monitoring tool that exposes system metrics
The MCP System Monitor is a tool that exposes system metrics via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing Large Language Models (LLMs) to retrieve real-time system information through an MCP-compatible interface. -
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Mail-in-a-Box
Take back control of your email with this mail server in a box
Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server, a mail server in a box. Mail-in-a-Box lets you become your own mail service provider in a few easy steps. It’s sort of like making your own gmail, but one you control from top to bottom. Technically, Mail-in-a-Box turns a fresh cloud computer into a working mail server. But you don’t need to be a technology expert to set it up. Our goals are to make deploying a good mail server easy, promote decentralization, innovation, and privacy on the web, have automated, auditable, and idempotent configuration, not make a totally unhackable, NSA-proof server, and not make something customizable by power users. Mail-in-a-Box turns a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit machine into a working mail server by installing and configuring various components. It is a one-click email appliance. There are no user-configurable setup options. It "just works." -
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