2025-06-13 | TUI Challange, Day 7

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 # Day 6: Task Management

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+date: "2025-06-14T04:00:00-07:00"
+title: "TUI Challenge: Day 7"
+tags: ["cli","tui"]
+categories: ["personal","sa"]
+#image: ""
+series: ["tuichallenge"]
+summary: "This is the end, my friend"
+---
+
+# Day 7: System Monitoring
+Today's task was around system monitoring which is something I have used before as I do not have any GUI system
+monitoring apps installed.
+
+![clockwise, top left: glances, trippy, btm, btop](/uploads/2025/06/tui-challenge-day-7.webp "clockwise, top left:
+glances, trippy, bottom, btop") _clockwise, top left: [glances](https://github.com/nicolargo/glances),
+[trippy](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/), [bottom](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom),
+[btop](https://github.com/aristocratos/btop)_
+
+Most of the time, when you laptop/server is running great, you do not worry about what is running or how much CPU/RAM is
+being consumed.  But, then you notice that program start-up seemed awfully slow or that remote site was a bit slow or
+did not respond at all.  What now?  Monitoring tools to the rescue!
+
+## [glances](https://github.com/nicolargo/glances)
+I just found this tool recently.  It gives a great overview of not just what process are running, but how your network
+interfaces are doing, disk i/o as well as filesystem usage, and an overview of the IRQ in use.  Truly, your system at a
+glance. The only metric it is missing for me is temperature of the CPU and drives.
+
+## [trippy](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/)
+Trippy is another new find for me.  It is traceroute, but all TUI up.  It is easy to read, has a stop-light icon on the
+far right to let you know the status of each hop.  Nice.
+
+## [bottom](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom)
+Bottom is another system resource monitor, but instead of just columns of numbers, you get a real-time chart of CPU,
+RAM, and network usage, along with an overview of system tempatures, disk usage (but not disk I/O), and a process
+overview.  This is a great tool to leave up running while you are trying to track down some issue as you can see the
+historical trends.
+
+## [btop](https://github.com/aristocratos/btop)
+btop is my go-to top replacement. I even have a bash alias for top calling btop: `alias top=btop` and a key sequence 
+for my tmux config to call it up: `bind '~' split-window "exec btop"`.  btop shows the same types of information as
+bottom, but goes into more details.  Disk display, for example, has not just space used but disk I/O as well.  It
+offers a lot of configuration options.  For example, in the above picture, it is using the catppuccin_mocha theme to
+match the rest of my desktop, both GUI and TUI apps.  Nice.
+
+## Challenge
+The challenge today was to use the tools at least twice and note an observation.  In the above picture, I was just
+starting a NixOS update and rebuild, so you can see the CPU, RAM, and network starting to get used more.
+
+## Daily totals
+[Yesterday](/post/2025/06/tui-challenge-day-6/) left me with 155 points. Today's basic challenge was worth 10 points,
+with a bonus of 5 points for customizing the display of the tool (btop's theme).  I did not do the other bonus of
+scripting alerts as I already have another system for that.  So, 15 points today, brings the total to 170.
+
+## Challenge Bonus points
+There is a bonus 30 points up for grabs if I use a terminal multiplexer.  As seen in the picture above, that is tmux
+with the first pane split into four to show the tools off, but I also have panes for my email, RSS reader, mastodon
+client, and ssh shells on a couple other machines.
+
+And for added geek points:
+```
+[don@loki:~] $ tmux list-sessions
+chat: 2 windows (created Sat Jun 14 22:34:14 2025)
+duckland: 3 windows (created Sat Jun 14 22:44:28 2025) (attached)
+loki: 5 windows (created Sat Jun 14 22:29:16 2025)
+nixos: 2 windows (created Sat Jun 14 22:29:49 2025)
+```
+
+Which brings my grand total to 200!