Dool is a command line tool to monitor many aspects of your Linux system: CPU, Memory, Network, Load Average, etc. It also includes a robust plug-in architecture to allow monitoring other system metrics.
Dool is a Python3 compatible fork of Dstat.
- Download the latest release archive file or clone the Git repo
- Copy
doolinto your$PATH - Copy
plugins/*to~/.dool/(optional)
dool [--preset] [--plugin] [delay]
My most common usage of Dool is:
dool --more 15
which uses the --more preset and outputs data every 15 seconds. Available
presets are --defaults, --more, or --all. If no delay is specified,
Dool will default to outputting every second.
Dark mode (default)
Light mode
Dool ships with many plug-ins to configure the output to your taste.
dool --cpu --net --time --full # Show CPU usage, and each network interface
dool --disk -D total,sda,sdd # Show the total disk IO, and /dev/sda and /dev/sdd
dool --net -N eth0,eth1 # Show the network traffic for eth0 and eth1
A list of available plug-ins are available when you run dool --version
Dool expects a 256 color compatible terminal. Most modern terminal emulators
support this automatically. A --color16 option is available if you only have
a 16 color terminal.
One of the changes in dool is measurement of network and disk bandwidth in
bits instead of bytes. This can be confusing if you're used to seeing
lower numbers in dstat. If you would rather see bandwidth reported in bytes
you can use the --bytes option.
The latest stable release (plus bugfixes) will live on the master branch.
Development of new features will occur on the next branch. Please have
pull requests target the next branch.
Various feature/bug branches may come and go as we work on more complex functionality, but those can be safely ignored.
| Username | Role |
|---|---|
| @scottchiefbaker | Primary author |
| @dagwieers | Original dstat author |
| @raylu | Pip release manager |