Glances is a cross-platform curses-based monitoring tool written in Python.
It uses the psutil library to get information from your system.
python >= 2.6
(tested with version 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3)psutil >= 0.4.1
(recommended version >= 0.6)jinja
(optional for HTML output)pysensors
(optional for HW monitoring support) [Linux-only]hddtemp
(optional for HDD temperature monitoring support)batinfo
(optional for battery monitoring support) [Linux-only]setuptools
Glances is on PyPI. To install, simply use pip:
pip install Glances
Note: On Debian/Ubuntu, you need to install first the python-dev package.
Actually, packages exist for Arch Linux, Fedora / CentOS / RHEL, Debian (Sid/Testing) and Ubuntu (13.04+), so you should be able to install it using your favorite package manager.
To install the precompiled binary package:
# pkg_add -r py27-glances
To install Glances from ports:
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/py-glances/
# make install clean
OS X users can also install Glances using Homebrew or MacPorts.
$ brew install brew-pip
$ export PYTHONPATH=$(brew --prefix)/lib/python2.7/site-packages
$ brew pip Glances
If you get the following error:
Error: Failed executing: pip install glances==X.X --install-option=--prefix=/usr/local/XXX/glances/X.X (.rb:)
Try to run:
$ pip install glances==X.X --install-option=--prefix=/usr/local/XXX/glances/X.X
$ brew link Glances
$ sudo port install glances
Windows only support Glances in server mode. Glances will automatically run in server mode on it.
Thanks to Nicolas Bourges, Glances can be easily installed using a Windows installer:
- glances-1.6.1-x86.exe (32-bit, md5sum: 13d5be664599f80152f8f1ae47400576)
- glances-1.6.1-x64.exe (64-bit, md5sum: a347ec5097d6d4d5039c7233872757a8)
Otherwise, you have to follow these steps:
- Install Python for Windows: http://www.python.org/getit/
- Install the psutil library: https://code.google.com/p/psutil/downloads/list
- Download Glances from here: http://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
To install Glances from source:
$ curl -L https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/archive/vX.X.tar.gz -o glances-X.X.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf glances-*.tar.gz
$ cd glances-*
# python setup.py install
Note: On Debian/Ubuntu, you need to install first the python-dev package.
You can install Glances using Puppet: https://github.com/rverchere/puppet-glances
Just run:
$ glances
For complete documentation see glances-doc.
Nicolas Hennion (@nicolargo) <[email protected]>
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