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collectd vs iftop

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

collectd

collectd

System & Hardware

collectd is an open source system statistics collection daemon. It collects system performance statistics periodically and provides methods to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.

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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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