See inside your machine
Find out what the hardware is doing, and what is moving across the network.
HWiNFO
The deepest hardware report and sensor monitor on Windows, free for personal use.
CPU-Z
A tiny freeware window that tells you exactly which processor, board and memory are in a Windows PC.
btop++
A terminal resource monitor that looks good enough to leave open, with processes, CPU, memory, disks, network and GPUs.
Glances
A cross-platform system monitor that runs in a terminal, in a browser, or as an API feeding a dashboard.
Wireshark
The network protocol analyser: capture traffic and read it packet by packet, with dissectors for hundreds of protocols.
Nmap
The network mapper: find out which hosts are up, which ports are open and what is listening on them.
Angry IP Scanner
A fast, friendly IP and port scanner that needs no installation and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.