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btop vs iftop

A side-by-side look at btop and iftop. 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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iftop

iftop

Network & Admin

iftop is an open source command-line tool used to monitor network usage and bandwidth in real-time. It displays a table of current TCP/IP connections using bandwidth over a specified interface.

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