Alternatives to iotop-c
A top-like Linux terminal tool that shows disk read and write activity for each process. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
iotop-c
A top-like Linux terminal tool that shows disk read and write activity for each process.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as iotop-c.
atop
A full-screen Linux performance monitor that reports and logs system and per-process resource usage.
atop is a full-screen Linux monitor covering all resources per process, including finished processes, with daily logging for long-term analysis beyond disk I/O.
Zenith
A terminal system monitor like top or htop, with zoomable charts for CPU, memory, network and disk.
Zenith is an MIT-licensed Rust terminal monitor with per-process disk usage in a filterable table plus zoomable CPU, memory and network charts.
sysstat
Collection of Linux command-line performance tools including sar, iostat, mpstat and pidstat.
sysstat is GPL-2.0 and provides pidstat and sar for per-process and historical disk statistics as text output, rather than a live top-style screen.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
htop
Interactive process viewer for the terminal.
NetHogs
Linux terminal tool that shows network bandwidth usage grouped by process, like top for traffic.
below
A Linux resource monitor that records system, cgroup and process statistics and replays them later.
bpftrace
A high-level tracing language and command-line tool for observing the Linux kernel and processes with eBPF.
dool
A Linux command-line tool that reports CPU, memory, network, disk and load statistics in real time.
btop++
A terminal resource monitor that looks good enough to leave open, with processes, CPU, memory, disks, network and GPUs.
