Resource Monitor

A simple cli tool to monitor resources, primarily on unix systems.

Contents

• Quick Start
• Change Logging Interface
• Log To File
• Custom Commands
• Set Timezone
• No Permissions?

Quick Start

Install it with:

npm i -g resource-monitor

Then start it:

resource-monitor

This will log to console default "ps -aux" and "top -n 1 -b" commands every 10 seconds.

Change Logging Interval

You can change interval with +interval-sec [number] e.g.:

resource-monitor +interval-sec 30

This will result in logging once every 30 seconds. You can also specify interval in minutes:

resource-monitor +interval-min 5

Log to File

To log to file:

resource-monitor 1>monitor.out 2>monitor.err

Custom Commands

To specify your own commands to run, use +cmd command line argument:

resource-monitor +cmd ps:-ef top:-n:1:-b

This will run ps -ef and top -n 1 -b every 10 seconds.

Set Timezone

To set timezone use +tz command line argument. This will result in time being printed in your timezone:

resource-monitor +tz Asia/Calcutta

You can see the list of possible values here.

No Permissions

If you don't have permissions to install global npm modules, you can instead install it locally with:

npm i resource-monitor

And then start with node node_modules/.bin/resource-monitor.