Any existing Linux solutions for tracking energy/cpu usage (trend, not snapshot)?
from BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 14 Feb 19:42
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Unless I’m using the wrong terms in my search it really seems like there’s no tool for Linux that can tell me what processes used the most CPU (typically this has a high correlation with energy usage) in the last hour or 24 hours.

Basically I want something like the Android battery usage app but for Linux.

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vk6flab@lemmy.radio on 14 Feb 20:02 next collapse

The top command will tell you what each process is using in terms of CPU and memory. You can log this to a database and analyse it as required.

I’d be surprised if the Android battery application was anything different.

async_amuro@lemm.ee on 14 Feb 20:07 next collapse

I enjoy btop personally

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 20:30 collapse

Any tips or how-to article that says how to push the top data to a DB? I figure scraping the output is no good because the layout is dynamic.

vk6flab@lemmy.radio on 14 Feb 20:58 collapse

When you pipe the output, it’s a single shot, no dynamic updates.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 21:56 collapse

Right, I just meant I figured the data might shift horizontally between snapshots but I guess Awk can figure it out.

Emberleaf@lemmy.ml on 14 Feb 20:20 next collapse

Stacer is nice and simple. oguzhaninan.github.io/Stacer-Web/

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 20:33 collapse

Looks nice but their graph doesn’t seem to show more than usage per core, not per process. Just based on the screenshots that is.

eldavi@lemmy.ml on 14 Feb 20:24 next collapse

i must be missing something about your question because this has been a thing for a while in the linux world.

the most recent version i can recall is using prometheus’ node-exporter and a graphite based web user interface that can show power usage graph similar to the android battery usage ap.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 21:07 collapse

I’m guessing this isn’t a totally comprehensive article but I’m not sure it will give the granularity I need: betterstack.com/…/monitor-linux-prometheus-node-e…

I would hope to get process names as part of the export.

eldavi@lemmy.ml on 14 Feb 22:01 collapse

nice find; it’s not exactly the way i’ve done it in the past; but the part of prometheus seems solid. and in case you didn’t know, you don’t have to use prometheus, any sort of monitoring system will work. zabbix is more all-in-one including a dashboard and also capable of doing this and you can use a nagios/icinga w grafana combo if prometheus is too odd for you.

in your shoes and i wanted a per process based graph; i would modify node-exporter to pick up additional data from something like a text file and along with custom persistent shell script can write the process names & data to that file.

then i would configure graphite/grafana, to render each graph based on each process. (i only have experience doing this on grafana; so i don’t know if better stack it’s capable of doing this, but i would be surprised if it can’t).

ZeroHora@lemmy.ml on 14 Feb 20:28 next collapse

The new KDE 6.3.0 info center have this as a feature or I understand it wrong? Couldn’t test it yet.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 21:53 collapse

I’m on Budgie. 😕

Eideen@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 21:07 next collapse

A tool like Librenms will give you this.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 21:53 collapse

It might but it also looks really advanced. I’m hoping to get stats on just one machine and not really monitor my entire infrastructure (which ain’t much).

Eideen@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 07:53 collapse

Then a tool like netdata may be the thing.

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 21:10 next collapse

powertop shows point in time data, but you can just export it to something and work from there.

penquin@lemm.ee on 15 Feb 00:40 next collapse

Any system monitor app (and basically every DE has one) will show you the cpu usage. Check out Mission Center . It’s almost a carbon copy of windows’ task manager.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 03:28 collapse

I have Mission Center. It’s great but at the process level it only shows current usage, not a time series average or summation.

lordnikon@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 03:39 next collapse

Glimpse is CLI and web but it’s a great

Gayhitler@lemmy.ml on 15 Feb 03:51 next collapse

Learn cacti

TxTechnician@lemmy.ml on 15 Feb 15:44 collapse

I know that the system monitor app that’s included in KDE has a pretty extensive custom page tracking option.

You can open it up and then put in a whole bunch of like settings in a new page and track pretty much every metric that your computer has.