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Glances

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While not precisely a server management application, Glances does assist in monitoring your server which could help you manage it.

Glances is a feature rich, lightweight monitoring tool for a plethora of platforms including GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows.

Glances can be accessed from a terminal or web interface and provides meaningful statistics and features such as:

CPU Load

Memory

Network interface Process list
Disk I/O IRQ / Raid Sensors
Docker Filesystem
Monitor Alarms & Uptime
System info

You can export all system statistics to CSV, InfluxDB, Cassandra, OpenTSDB, StatsD, ElasticSearch or even RabbitMQ. Glances also provides a dedicated Grafana dashboard. 

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Installation

There are several installation methods for Glances. While I exclusively use the container methods of installation; you can find all the installation....IN PROGRESS