Continuous collection and analysis of some type of data is termed monitoring. For example, logging the total free space on a disk. A common administration and troubleshooting tool.
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How to track LAN usage? (AKA 'top for LAN')
There's an evil application that is eating ALL my upload bandwidth (I'm brazilian, it's only ~35kbps) for like 80% of the time my PC is turned on.
I would like to know if there's any way to track ...
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Is there a way to find out what application using most of bandwidth in Linux?
I'm looking for an utility that could show me how much of a bandwidth each process are using. It should just print the data and exit as I want to feed that list into conky.
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Monitor all and any internet traffic from my home PC - what should I use?
I would like to monitor all and any internet traffic from my home PC to see what programs installed on my home machine are accessing the internet.
I thought I could use Fiddler for this but I noticed ...
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How to monitor a folder for changes, and execute a command if it does, on Windows?
There are similar questions for Linux and Mac, but I'm after a Windows solution here.
The problem is as follows: I want to write several (js) script files in a folder, and have a program monitor ...
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How to see who is using my WiFi
I have WiFi router at home and would like to know if there is any way to know who is connected to my WiFi network and using it. My WiFi network is password protected but still there could be a chance ...
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Application for monitoring all applications that are using the internet in Mac OS X
Can anyone introduce me a Mac OS X application that monitors all network activity such as what applications are now connected to the internet and how much bandwidth they use (I mean show bandwidth ...
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File monitor (like Sysinternal's Filemon) for Linux?
Is there a file monitor, similar to FileMon from Sysinternals, for Linux?
I know about lsof, but this only shows me the files that were opened at the point I've executed it.
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How to monitor bandwidth use of each device on wifi network
I have in my home a standard Comcast cable internet connection. I have it going from the wall to a cable modem, and from the modem to a late-series Linksys router, which provides wired and wireless ...
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View Filesystem Access in Real Time on Mac OS X
Had a sysinternals tool (filemon) for that, but now I can find something similar for the mac.
I'm a developer and I basically want to debug "file not found" or "wrong permissions" errors.
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Are there any tools to periodically check if a web site is available?
Either online or local applications (Windows XP preferably). I'm specifically looking to be notified by email if the web site in question goes down.
I've tried the Firefox add on, Mr Uptime, but it ...
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Monitoring my own activity on computer?
I'd like to have good statistics of how much time I spend doing various tasks on my computer (I'm using Windows Vista), so I'm looking for a good tool for that. It has to monitor what application I am ...
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Is there an app for the Mac that shows you which apps are using the network? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Application for monitoring all applications that are using the internet in Mac OS X
I use Menu Meters to show me how much data is being sent and received by my Mac as a ...
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Are there any wireless routers that allow bandwidth monitoring and throttling?
Are there any wireless routers that would allow me to see what clients are hogging up bandwidth and that would let me limit them so that they can't grab it all? Both wifi-wise and internet-wise.
I ...
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Easy, but production-ready process monitor in Linux/Unix [closed]
I am looking for a simple process monitor for my account in a popular VPS. I loved Supervisor and Monit, but they seem overkill for me.
I want something
that runs as a daemon (So my VPS account can ...
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Am I secure from network monitoring software if HTTPS is used?
I will be logging into my bank account and my personal email accounts at work. Its not banned at work, but I just don't want them to save/log a copy of whatever I do with these services. Especially my ...
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How can I find out what modifications a program’s installer makes?
I want to know what some installers do: mainly what files, folders, and registry entries they add, remove, or modify.
Lots of “ professional” programs are so poorly documented that it’s difficult to ...
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What tools can be used to keep track of changes on web pages?
What software or online service could one use to keep track of changes that occur on a given web page?
It would be nice to get an RSS feed for updates but other notification methods are fine too. ...
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Is there a tail -f equivalent for ls?
Basically the question is in the title. I want to monitor a directory for new files that are written or deleted, the way I can monitor a log file with tail -f. Is this possible?
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How to measure the network throughput/load on Ubuntu Linux as easily as meauring uptime?
I'm looking for a simple tool on Ubtunu that can report average network throughput/load. Something very simple: something like "uptime" - just to tell me number bytes/MB read in last 5mins, 10mins, ...
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Suggestions for website change monitoring tool?
I work for someone who has recently had their web server hacked and had a bunch of text added to their sites without their knowledge. I'm looking for a service that alerts you when your pages change. ...
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How can I monitor network traffic in an all Mac home network?
I have an all Mac network consisting of an Airport Extreme, 1 MacPro, 1 Mac Mini, 2 MackBook Pros, 2 iPads, and 2 iPhones. The Mac Pro is connected directly to the Airport Extreme via Cat5 and the ...
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Is there a free solution for watching a folder for changes and copying specific files on change?
What I want isn't very much and I can't seem to find any free software to do it for me. I really don't want to make my own program seeing as this seems like a common scenario.
Watch a specific ...
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How can I find out what's the bottleneck slowing down a particular process / the entire system?
Given a specific running process, is there a way to find out what hardware element is currently the bottleneck for its operation? In other words, is its current computation CPU-bound, GPU-bound, ...
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Simple way to monitor and analyze home network traffic, via proxy?
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I'm looking for a way to create a simple list/log/database of the URLs my home computers have accessed. This list should show Domains, Urls, Timestamps, bytes sent/rec'd and that's about it.
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How can I find the program making a harmonica sound?
A friend has a Windows XP SP3 machine that plays a harmonica sound for about 5 seconds throughout the day at what seems to be random intervals (every couple hours). My question is how can I find the ...
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Find out which program creates a file/folder in my C: drive
I am looking for an app that can monitor my C: (system) drive and find which program is creating a folder, with the rather generic name TEMP1\, on that drive.
I wouldn't mind if it could hook the ...
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Monitor the network shared folder?
I am looking for freeware/open source application which can monitor the shared folder on local network. I did use some freeware application , But stupid enough to forget its name :)
Thanks in ...
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Utility to Monitor Kill / Restart Rogue Process?
I need a Windows (XP/7) utility to continuously monitor always-running processes and kill them (and optionally restart them) if they hang.
There are a lot of interactive tools out there ...
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What should I use to ping multiple IPs and get notified of time outs?
I've been using MultiPing to ping hundreds of IPs (from access points and such) and check their performance (packet loss, latency) and uptime. The program is very easy to use, but I was wondering if ...
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Special Screensavers For Multiple Monitors
I am using Dual Monitor now.
But the one of them is not use often, it's just for monitoring CPU RAM HARDDISK usage,clock,and some gadgets.
So I really want to have a screensaver for it.
I mean I need ...
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in linux how can I see how much bandwidth a program process is using
On occasion I see my bandwidth usage using the gnome system monitor going up to 300kbit/s. I just cant figure out what is causing it. I want to know what process or program in using my network like ...
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Is there a Linux desktop key logger application that can monitor how long I spend on websites and desktop applications?
I am looking for a key logger application monitoring application that can tell me:
How long I have spent using a desktop
application
How long I have spent on each website
I visit via my browsers
...
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Where can I find a simple, free Windows program to monitor network folders?
I've looked at a few similar answers here on SU and Google, but all of the solutions mentioned were either outdated, buggy, or required a greater understanding of Windows management.
I handle ...
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Routers with decent parental monitoring / traffic logging?
I'm looking for consumer router / firmware recommendations with reasonably robust remote URL / hostname logging & reporting functionality.
Most logging functionality I've seen is terrible - ...
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Is it possible for my company to monitor my Gmail?
Since Gmail uses https, all the messages should be encrypted?
Here we assume my company does not have keystroke logger or random snapshot software.
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How to monitor Windows XP disk I/O?
My Windows environment (main development machine) is running a bit slow with operations envolving hard disk. As an indication, the HD light is constantly flashing and e.g. saving and loading big files ...
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How to see if turbo boost is working on I7 860 CPU?
I just build myself a new system with a Intel I7 860 CPU. When loading it using a single threaded application like Super PI, CPU-Z shows 2.933Ghz as speed. Now I understood that the I7 goes into turbo ...
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Monitor traffic through a home router
We have an Internet connection which is shared on five computers via a home router.
One of the computers is using torrents all the time. I want to find out which, and they won't tell me.
How can I ...
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Find what URL an EXE file is sending data to
How can I monitor an EXE file when it is running to see what URL it is connecting to? I assume there must be free software out there that can do this fairly easily?
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Automated Video Encoding Solution
The Problem
I have around 3000+ videos growing daily. Each of these videos need to be converted to H.264, with 2 audio tracks, straight through and Stereo in an M4V container. I currently use a .Net ...
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Desktop Internet traffic measurement software
Can you recommend a robust Internet traffic measurement tool you had experience with?
Robustness is important because I've used a couple of such tools but ended up uninstalling them because of ...
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Utility to monitor what a program changed during install
I've seen this before and for the life of me I cannot remember the name of it.
It will tell you want changes an program does during installation.
Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?
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How do I check if a user connected an external hard drive?
I originally came across this from a Citadel LLC complaint against a former employee. Text of complaint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/63606232/Citadel-vs-Yihao-Ben-Pu
From the filing:
"Forensic ...
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How do I log which process is deleting a file on Windows XP?
I'm having an issue with a file getting deleted seemingly randomly throughout the day. The vendor of the software whose file is getting deleete says that another piece of software installed on the ...
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Can instant messengers conversations be monitored?
on the ISP level, how can someone monitor messenger talks? isn't the p2p architecture immune to such surveillance? and how do different instant messaging clients compare in that sense?
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Is there a program to show programs loading during the boot process in real time?
There are any number of programs that will show me WHAT will run during the boot process for Windows XP. I've always been partial to Mike Lin's version but there are several others, some of which are ...
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How to monitor what someone else is doing while using your internet connection
I gave my network security password to my neighbor so she could get online. How can I tell what she has been doing online or on my computer?
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Good software to monitor disk io, memory and cpu use?
I'm developing a website. I was wondering if there are any tools out there that make it easy to log and graph usage statistics of how my cpu, memory, disk and network are used.
I need to somehow know ...
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Monitor hard drive changes to files
Several months ago I saw someone using an application that showed him files on the computer being modified in real time.
Basically there was an application that wasn't working correctly, so he ...
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App or apps like NetLimiter Monitor for Linux
I find NetLimiter Monitor quite handy on Windows both for the realtime per-process bandwidth monitoring and the recorded data usage.
What tools can I use to replicate this functionality in Linux?
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