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btop vs Charles

A side-by-side look at btop and Charles. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

btop

btop

System & Hardware

btop is a system monitoring utility for Linux systems, providing an interactive interface to monitor CPU/RAM/swap usage, network activity, disk I/O, and more in real time.

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Charles

Charles

Development

Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).

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