ttop

System monitoring tool with TUI, historical data service and triggers

• Saving historical snapshots via systemd.timer or crontab
• Scroll via historical data
• TUI with critical values highlight
• External triggers (for notifications or other needs)
• Ascii graph of historical stats (via https://github.com/Yardanico/asciigraph)
• Temperature via sysfs
• User-space only, doesn't require root permissions
• Static build
• Threads tree
• Docker-related info

Install

Arch/AUR

yay -S ttop             # enables systemd.timers automatically

Static binary

wget https://github.com/inv2004/ttop/releases/latest/download/ttop
chmod +x ttop
mv ttop ~/bin/          # add into PATH if necessary
ttop --on               # enable data collector in user's systemd.timers or crontab

Uninstall

ttop --off
rm ~/bin/ttop

Build from source

curl https://nim-lang.org/choosenim/init.sh -sSf | sh    # Nim setup from nim-lang.org

git clone https://github.com/inv2004/ttop
cd ttop
nimble -d:release build

Notification

• stmp support was removed in prev version by the reason that static binary with ssl is more that 3Mb

From v0.8.1 you can trigger external tool, for example curl, to send notifications

Config example

~/.config/ttop.toml or /etc/ttop.toml

My default server's config

[[trigger]]
cmd = "$HOME/bin/tel.sh"

Config with all parameters described

light = false            # set true for light term (default = false)

# [data]
# path = "/var/log/ttop" # custom storage path (default = if exists /var/log/ttop, else ~/.cache/ttop )

[[trigger]]              # telegram example
on_alert = true          # execute trigger on alert (true if no other on_* provided)
on_info = true           # execute trigger on without alert (default = false)
debug = false            # output stdout/err from cmd (default = false)
cmd = '''
read -d '' TEXT
curl -X POST \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d "{\"chat_id\": $CHAT_ID, \"text\": \"$TEXT\", \"disable_notification\": $TTOP_INFO}" \
  https://api.telegram.org/bot$TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN/sendMessage
'''

# cmd receives text from stdin. The following env vars are set:
#   TTOP_ALERT (true|false) - if alert
#   TTOP_INFO  (true|false) - opposite to alert
#   TTOP_TYPE  (alert|info) - trigger type
#   TTOP_HOST               - host name
# you can find your CHAT_ID by send smth to your bot and run:
#    curl https://api.telegram.org/bot$TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN/getUpdates

[[trigger]]               # smtp example
cmd = '''
read -d '' TEXT
TEXT="Subject: ttop $TTOP_TYPE from $TTOP_HOST

$TEXT"
echo "$TEXT" | curl --ssl-reqd \
  --url 'smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465' \
  --user 'login:password' \
  --mail-from '[email protected]' \
  --mail-rcpt '[email protected]' \
  --upload-file -
'''