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iftop vs psutil

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

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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psutil

psutil

Development

psutil is a cross-platform library for retrieving information on running processes and system utilization in Python. It allows you to easily monitor CPU, memory, disk, network and other system resources.

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