nmon and nmon visualizer

A few days ago I’ve watched a video about ways of monitoring Linux and another tool came to my mind, NMON!.

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NMON

Description

Nmon is a performance analyse program working on several unix plattforms (Linux and AIX).

Installing nmon

sudo apt install nmon

Running nmon

sudo nmon

NMONVisualizer

Description

NMONVisualizer is a Java GUI tool for analyzing nmon system files from both AIX and Linux, and it can be downloaded from here

Running NMONVisualizer

To run the ReportGenerator, specify the class from the command line like the following: java -jar NMONVisualizer_.jar com.ibm.nmon.ReportGenerator <file|directory to parse>

java -jar NMONVisualizer_2025-01-01.jar

Jan 22, 2025 2:57:43 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$1 run
INFO: Created user preferences directory.

All Systems Report - A set of charts showing data across all systems that have been processed.

Sources

Photo by Nima van Ghavim on Unsplash

Top 10 ways to monitor Linux in the console https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/top-10-ways-monitor-linux-console

nmon package in Ubuntu https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nmon

NMONVisualizer https://nmonvisualizer.github.io/nmonvisualizer/

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