INTRODUCTION

METRICS is a lightweight, user-friendly, CLI-based system monitoring tool designed to provide clear and accessible insights into system performance.

My inspiration for this project came from when I was using WSL to work with my Ubuntu Distro. In such a system it is really hard to monitor the system when there are no GUI or better, lightweight application is provided.
It comes with a choice to either use traditional monitoring commands as mentioned before such as htop or top, but they don’t provide much clear info, or we can use high-fi tools such as Node Exporter, Grafana or Prometheus, which again requires some prior learning of how to use it and also gets somewhere complex to use.

Hence, I wanted to make something that can provide a better understanding of the System’s metrics for day-to-day life. It promotes to not to use any fancy tools which can actually be much overwhelming for a normal user and may also come with steep learning curve.

For simple system such as using a WSL, or a small server setup in Linux, it is more beneficial to make small and lightweight applications to monitor the system.

Key Highlights:

  • Lightweight & Minimal Setup: No complex configurations or dependencies.

  • Clear Visualizations: Offers resource insights through tables, concise text output, and simple CLI-based graphs.

  • Beginner-Friendly: Intuitive to use without sacrificing functionality.

Whether you're managing a small server or working within WSL, METRICS is your go-to tool for efficient, maintainable system monitoring—without the bloat.

How to run it?

To get METRICS in your system, you need to follow the given steps:

  1. For ease of use, create a directory: 
mkdir METRICS
cd METRICS

  1. Then type:
               git clone https://github.com/vak-rashu/METRICS.git

  2. After doing the git clone, follow the given steps:

cd METRICS
cd packages
source packages.sh

This will activate the virtual environment and will install the necessary pip requirements.

  1. Now go to the parent directory by typing cd .. and run the following commands: 
source metrics_cli.sh

Now your METRICS CLI will start working and you can start tracking your system resources. 🌟

Important Note:

  1. Make sure you have python3 downloaded, if not download it from here: 
sudo apt update
  sudo apt install python3
  1. Make sure you have required setup downloaded for the graphs to run smoothly, if not run the following command: 
sudo apt-get install tcl-dev tk-dev python3-tk

Result Analysis

Image demonstrating threads used by each process

Images demonstrating Load Average on the CPU

Image demonstrating graph displaying the time taken by CPU in each mode

It would be great to see you all also using METRICS to monitor your system resources.
Do also share your thoughts or reviews about this project. 😄