Questions tagged [monitoring]
For questions about monitoring computer activity. Questions about recording external human activity, use a tag such as [time-management]
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Is there a way to find out what application using most of bandwidth in Linux? [closed]
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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How can I monitor all and any Internet traffic from my home PC?
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 ...
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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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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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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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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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How to get real-time network statistics in Linux with KB/MB/Bytes format and for specific port or application processID?
I used IPTraf, Iftop, vnstat, bwm-ng, ifconfig -a. None of them is helping me to find real-time packets that are being sent/received from my application in KB or MB format. The reason is I am writing ...
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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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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 see who is using my WiFi
I have a 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 ...
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Can systemd detect and kill hung processes?
While working on a solution which uses file locking, I believe my code is getting into a deadlock. I'm using systemd to kick off the process on system startup. Using alarm(3) is an option, but I was ...
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How do I log which process is deleting a file on Windows XP?
A file is being deleted seemingly randomly throughout the day. The vendor of the software whose file is being deleted says that another piece of software installed on the computer is deleting it, ...
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Check health of eMMC
How can I check the health of eMMC with linux?
It seems that smartctl can't handle it:
root@om:~# smartctl -a /dev/mmcblk0
smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.4.0-63-generic] (local build)
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How can I identify which processes are using the GPU?
Is there any way to find out which process is using the GPU for intensive calculations? (OpenCL, CUDA, etc? Primarily OpenCL?)
e.g. if you run an OpenCL-powered video transcoder, you'll see nothing ...
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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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http availability check with Prometheus [closed]
I am considering to use Prometheus for Monitoring my systems. The document explains how i can use it for metric monitoring like counters, histograms and summary. But it does not provide any ...
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How to get current bandwidth usage from command line using built-in Linux tools?
I'm looking for a good way to get the current total bandwidth usage on a linux machine. I’ve tried iftop, nethogs, but they don’t show real bandwidth usage compared to system monitor; they don’t suit ...
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How can I 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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Monitoring my own activity on computer? [closed]
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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Nagios - obsessing over this service: what does this mean?
We use Nagios to monitor our servers. I haven't set this up myself, and I want to change some settings. Most services have the setting obsessing enabled. I wonder what this means, and what happens if ...
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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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How to monitor which files lots of data is being written to on Linux?
I can monitor I/O with tools such as iotop. It allows me to identify which processes do how much I/O.
Now I'd like to know which files those processes write all that data to. How would I do that?
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How to solve a very sluggish Windows 10 UI
Just recently my PC's performance has become dismal, I even got about 10 'pauses' in the editor while typing these two sentences. Now if I used Process Explorer, I can sort by CPU, memory, and IO, ...
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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 whole.
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tail -f equivalent for an URL
I want to monitor the log file of my application which however doesn't work locally but on a SaaS platform and is exposed over HTTP and WebDAV.
So, an equivalent of tail -f that works for URLs would ...
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How do determine how much bandwidth a process is using in Linux
On occasion I see my bandwidth usage using gnome-system-monitor going up to 300kbit/s. I just can't figure out what is causing it. I want to know what process or program in using my network like that?
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Windows notebook power consumption monitor
Is there some kind of SW similar to Android phone's power monitor?
I would like to know the amount of power the wifi/various applications have taken.
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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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How to monitor Windows XP disk I/O?
My Windows environment (main development machine) is running a bit slow with operations involving the hard disk. As an indication, the HD light is constantly flashing and e.g. saving and loading big ...
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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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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 (Sysinternals,...
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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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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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Where can I see the current charging speed on Windows 10?
Running powercfg /batteryreport in cmd.exe doesn't give the info directly (one has to do the math based on the log). Where can I see the current charging speed on Windows 10?
E.g. on Android I use ...
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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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Mac: number of bytes transmitted over interface
On linux, I'm used to typing ifconfig and looking for the line with "RX bytes" and "TX bytes" in it to find out how many bytes have been received and transmitted over a particular interface since boot....
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How to check which application has the clipboard hold?
We are deploying some virtual machines with robots software which performs actions in a browser, and we are having trouble with some of them when accessing the clipboard for read or write. They show a ...
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What tools can be used to keep track of changes on web pages? [closed]
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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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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Finding out what URLs a program accesses? - Windows 7 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Find what URL an EXE file is sending data to
Is it possible to find out what URL (not IP address and port) a program is requesting on Windows 7?
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History of CPU usage for all processes
How can I view historical CPU usage for all the running processes in Windows, including those processes that were started after the history collection had started? I am interested in a way to collect ...
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Linux: per-application traffic monitoring (not nethogs)
Please note it's not duplicate of other questions where answer with nethogs is accepted, since nethogs isn't what I need.
I want to know how much each of my applications have eaten network traffic, ...
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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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How can I see how fast data is being transferred in Mac OS X?
Is there a simple way to measure how the upload or download speed of data leaving my computer, like when I'm backing up the computer, or uploading large files through a browser?
If so, how can I do ...
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What does Monit do when it says 'initializing'?
I'm using Monit for system monitoring. If i enable monitoring on a service it shows 'initializing' in the Status row. This can take a while. I wonder what Monit is doing in that time, since the used ...
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Ubuntu: tool for displaying disk activity in general and by process
My Ubuntu system is occasionally becoming very sluggish. I'm running many things simultaneously and it's very difficult to tell which program is the culprit.
I suspect that the sluggishness is due to ...
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run a python script in background and restart it on crash
I have a very simple Python script that I'd like to be always running on my ubuntu 12.04 server. I thought of using upstart + monit. Problem is that those tools seem rather complicated for a simple ...
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Disk Space Monitoring
I'm looking for a simple way of getting an email alert whenever the diskspace of a server gets above X % or has less than X Mb free.
I don't need anything too special, I don't need graphs or ...
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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 ...