How to install and use btop on Ubuntu Cloud Servers

2022-09-26 By Nathan 7902 Views linux btop
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Btop is a cross-platform command line utility and supports mouse controls. A built-in preferences menu that functions in the terminal itself can be used to customize its many settings. Both a summary and a full version of the statistics are available. A built-in tree-view layout, graphs and plots illustrating resource use over time, a battery indicator, colourful output, vim-style keyboard shortcuts, changeable themes, and the ability to sort and filter processes are just a few of Btop's other significant features.


Features

  • Easy to use, with a game-inspired menu system.

  • Full mouse support, all buttons with a highlighted key is clickable and mouse scroll works in process list and menu boxes.

  • Fast and responsive UI with UP, and DOWN keys process selection.

  • Function for showing detailed stats for the selected process.

  • Ability to filter processes.

  • Easy switching between sorting options.

  • Tree view of processes.

  • Send any signal to the selected process.

  • UI menu for changing all config file options.

  • Auto-scaling graph for network usage.

  • Shows IO activity and speeds for disks

  • Battery meter

  • Selectable symbols for the graphs

  • Custom presents


This guide will describe the steps on how to install btop on the ubuntu server.


  1. Install Snapd on the ubuntu server.

    Snap is a bundle of an app and their dependencies that works without modification across many different Linux distributions.

    # apt install snapd
    

    btop1

  2. Start to install btop.

    # snap install btop
    

    btop2

  3. Start to use btop.

    # btop
    

    btop3


    Output:

    btop4

  4. If any of the resource monitors were not working, use the below-given commands accordingly to restart that particular resource.

    # snap connect btop:system-observe
    
    # snap connect btop:mount-observe
    
    # snap connect btop:hardware-observe
    
    # snap connect btop:network-observe
    
    # snap connect btop:process-control
    

    btop5


    Please note that Btop default configuration is /root/snap/btop/516/.config/btop/btop.conf.


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