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<div class="document" id="glances">
<h1 class="title">Glances</h1>
<p>This manual describes <em>Glances</em> version 2.0.1.</p>
<p>Copyright © 2012-2014 Nicolas Hennion &lt;<a class="reference external" href="mailto:nicolas&#64;nicolargo.com">nicolas&#64;nicolargo.com</a>&gt;</p>
<p>June 2014</p>
<div class="contents topic" id="table-of-contents">
<p class="topic-title first">Table of Contents</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#introduction" id="id5">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#usage" id="id6">Usage</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#standalone-mode" id="id7">Standalone Mode</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#client-server-mode" id="id8">Client/Server Mode</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#web-server-mode" id="id9">Web Server Mode</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#command-reference" id="id10">Command Reference</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#command-line-options" id="id11">Command-Line Options</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#interactive-commands" id="id12">Interactive Commands</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#configuration" id="id13">Configuration</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#anatomy-of-the-application" id="id14">Anatomy Of The Application</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#legend" id="id15">Legend</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#header" id="id16">Header</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#cpu" id="id17">CPU</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#load" id="id18">Load</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#memory" id="id19">Memory</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#network" id="id20">Network</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#disk-i-o" id="id21">Disk I/O</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#file-system" id="id22">File System</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#sensors" id="id23">Sensors</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#processes-list" id="id24">Processes List</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#monitored-processes-list" id="id25">Monitored Processes List</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#logs" id="id26">Logs</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#other-outputs" id="id27">Other Outputs</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#api-documentation" id="id28">API Documentation</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#support" id="id29">Support</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="introduction">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">Introduction</a></h1>
<p>Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool which
aims to present a maximum of information in a minimum of space, ideally
to fit in a classical 80x24 terminal or higher to have additional
information. It can adapt dynamically the displayed information depending
on the terminal size.</p>
<p>Glances can also work in client/server mode. Remote monitoring could be
done via terminal or web interface.</p>
<p>Glances is written in Python and uses the <a class="reference external" href="https://code.google.com/p/psutil/">psutil</a> library to get
information from your system.</p>
<p>Console (80x24)</p>
<img alt="images/screenshot.png" src="images/screenshot.png" />
<p>Full view (&gt;80x24)</p>
<img alt="images/screenshot-wide.png" src="images/screenshot-wide.png" />
<p>Web interface (Firefox)</p>
<img alt="images/screenshot-web.png" src="images/screenshot-web.png" />
</div>
<div class="section" id="usage">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">Usage</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="standalone-mode">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7">Standalone Mode</a></h2>
<p>Simply run:</p>
<pre class="code console literal-block">
<span class="generic prompt">$</span> glances
</pre>
</div>
<div class="section" id="client-server-mode">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8">Client/Server Mode</a></h2>
<p>If you want to remotely monitor a machine, called <tt class="docutils literal">server</tt>, from
another one, called <tt class="docutils literal">client</tt>, just run on the server:</p>
<pre class="code console literal-block">
<span class="generic output">server$ glances -s</span>
</pre>
<p>and on the client:</p>
<pre class="code console literal-block">
<span class="generic output">client$ glances -c &#64;server</span>
</pre>
<p>where <tt class="docutils literal">&#64;server</tt> is the IP address or hostname of the server.</p>
<p>In server mode, you can set the bind address <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-B</span> ADDRESS</tt> and listening
TCP port <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-p</span> PORT</tt>.</p>
<p>In client mode, you can set the TCP port of the server <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-p</span> PORT</tt>.</p>
<p>You can also set a password to access to the server <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--password</span></tt>.</p>
<p>Default binding address is <tt class="docutils literal">0.0.0.0</tt> (Glances will listen on all the
network interfaces) and TCP port is <tt class="docutils literal">61209</tt>.</p>
<p>In client/server mode, limits are set by the server side.</p>
<p>Glances is <tt class="docutils literal">IPv6</tt> compatible. Just use the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-B</span> ::</tt> option to bind to
all IPv6 addresses.</p>
<p>As an experimental feature, if Glances server is not detected by the
client, the latter will try to grab stats using the <tt class="docutils literal">SNMP</tt> protocol:</p>
<pre class="code console literal-block">
<span class="generic output">client$ glances -c &#64;snmpserver</span>
</pre>
<p>Known issues: grab using SNMP is only validated for GNU/Linux with SNMP
v2/2c server.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="web-server-mode">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9">Web Server Mode</a></h2>
<p>If you want to remotely monitor a machine, called <tt class="docutils literal">server</tt>, from any
device with a web browser, called <tt class="docutils literal">client</tt>, just run on the server:</p>
<pre class="code console literal-block">
<span class="generic output">server$ glances -w</span>
</pre>
<p>and on the client enter the following URL in your favorite web browser:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
http://&#64;server:61208
</pre>
<p>where <tt class="docutils literal">&#64;server</tt> is the IP address or hostname of the server.</p>
<p>The Glances web interface follows responsive web design principles.</p>
<p>Screenshot from Chrome on Android</p>
<img alt="images/screenshot-web2.png" src="images/screenshot-web2.png" />
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="command-reference">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10">Command Reference</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="command-line-options">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11">Command-Line Options</a></h2>
<table class="docutils option-list" frame="void" rules="none">
<col class="option" />
<col class="description" />
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">-h</span>, <span class="option">--help</span></kbd></td>
<td>show this help message and exit</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">-V</span>, <span class="option">--version</span></kbd></td>
<td>show program's version number and exit</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">-b</span>, <span class="option">--byte</span></kbd></td>
<td>display network rate in byte per second</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-B <var>BIND_ADDRESS</var></span>, <span class="option">--bind <var>BIND_ADDRESS</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>bind server to the given IPv4/IPv6 address or hostname</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-c <var>CLIENT</var></span>, <span class="option">--client <var>CLIENT</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>connect to a Glances server by IPv4/IPv6 address or
hostname</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-C <var>CONF_FILE</var></span>, <span class="option">--config <var>CONF_FILE</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>path to the configuration file</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">--disable-bold</span></kbd></td>
<td>disable bold mode in the terminal</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--disable-diskio</span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>disable disk I/O module</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">--disable-fs</span></kbd></td>
<td>disable file system module</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--disable-network</span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>disable network module</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--disable-sensors</span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>disable sensors module</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--disable-process</span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>disable process module</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">--disable-log</span></kbd></td>
<td>disable log module</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--output-csv <var>OUTPUT_CSV</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>export stats to a CSV file</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-p <var>PORT</var></span>, <span class="option">--port <var>PORT</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>define the client/server TCP port [default: 61209]</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">--password</span></kbd></td>
<td>define a client/server password from the prompt or
file</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">-s</span>, <span class="option">--server</span></kbd></td>
<td>run Glances in server mode</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--snmp-community <var>SNMP_COMMUNITY</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>SNMP community</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--snmp-port <var>SNMP_PORT</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>SNMP port</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--snmp-version <var>SNMP_VERSION</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>SNMP version (1, 2c or 3)</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--snmp-user <var>SNMP_USER</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>SNMP username (only for SNMPv3)</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--snmp-auth <var>SNMP_AUTH</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>SNMP authentication key (only for SNMPv3)</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-t <var>TIME</var></span>, <span class="option">--time <var>TIME</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>set refresh time in seconds [default: 3 sec]</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-w</span>, <span class="option">--webserver</span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>run Glances in Web server mode</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">-1</span>, <span class="option">--percpu</span></kbd></td>
<td>start Glances in per CPU mode</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="interactive-commands">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12">Interactive Commands</a></h2>
<p>The following commands (key pressed) are supported while in Glances:</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">a</tt></dt>
<dd><p class="first">Sort process list automatically</p>
<ul class="last simple">
<li>If CPU iowait <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;60%</tt>, sort processes by I/O read and write</li>
<li>If CPU <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;70%</tt>, sort processes by CPU usage</li>
<li>If MEM <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;70%</tt>, sort processes by memory usage</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">b</tt></dt>
<dd>Switch between bit/s or Byte/s for network I/O</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">c</tt></dt>
<dd>Sort processes by CPU usage</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">d</tt></dt>
<dd>Show/hide disk I/O stats</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">f</tt></dt>
<dd>Show/hide file system stats</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">h</tt></dt>
<dd>Show/hide the help screen</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">i</tt></dt>
<dd>Sort processes by I/O rate</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">l</tt></dt>
<dd>Show/hide log messages</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">m</tt></dt>
<dd>Sort processes by MEM usage</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">n</tt></dt>
<dd>Show/hide network stats</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">p</tt></dt>
<dd>Sort processes by name</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">q</tt></dt>
<dd>Quit</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">s</tt></dt>
<dd>Show/hide sensors stats</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">t</tt></dt>
<dd>View network I/O as combination</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">u</tt></dt>
<dd>View cumulative network I/O</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">w</tt></dt>
<dd>Delete finished warning log messages</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">x</tt></dt>
<dd>Delete finished warning and critical log messages</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">z</tt></dt>
<dd>Show/hide processes stats</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">1</tt></dt>
<dd>Switch between global CPU and per-CPU stats</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="configuration">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13">Configuration</a></h1>
<p><strong>Caution! Glances version 1.x configuration files are not compatible
with the version 2.x.</strong></p>
<p>No configuration file is mandatory to use Glances.</p>
<p>Furthermore a configuration file is needed to set up limits, disks or
network interfaces to hide and/or monitored processes list.</p>
<p>By default, the configuration file is under:</p>
<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
<col class="field-name" />
<col class="field-body" />
<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Linux:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="docutils literal">/etc/glances/glances.conf</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">*BSD and OS X:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="docutils literal">/usr/local/etc/glances/glances.conf</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Windows:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%APPDATA%\glances\glances.conf</span></tt></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>On Windows XP, the <tt class="docutils literal">%APPDATA%</tt> path is:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
C:\Documents and Settings\&lt;User&gt;\Application Data
</pre>
<p>Since Windows Vista and newer versions:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
C:\Users\&lt;User&gt;\AppData\Roaming
</pre>
<p>You can override the default configuration, located in one of the above
directories on your system, except for Windows.</p>
<p>Just copy the <tt class="docutils literal">glances.conf</tt> file to your <tt class="docutils literal">$XDG_CONFIG_HOME</tt> directory,
e.g., on Linux:</p>
<pre class="code console literal-block">
<span class="generic output">mkdir -p $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/glances
cp /usr/share/doc/glances/glances.conf $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/glances/</span>
</pre>
<p>On OS X, you should copy the configuration file to
<tt class="docutils literal">~/Library/Application Support/glances/</tt>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="anatomy-of-the-application">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14">Anatomy Of The Application</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="legend">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15">Legend</a></h2>
<div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><tt class="docutils literal">GREEN</tt> stat counter is <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;OK&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line"><tt class="docutils literal">BLUE</tt> stat counter is <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;CAREFUL&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line"><tt class="docutils literal">MAGENTA</tt> stat counter is <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;WARNING&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line"><tt class="docutils literal">RED</tt> stat counter is <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;CRITICAL&quot;</tt></div>
</div>
<p><em>Note</em>: only stats with colored background will be logged in the alert
view.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="header">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16">Header</a></h2>
<img alt="images/header.png" src="images/header.png" />
<p>The header shows the hostname, OS name, release version, platform
architecture and system uptime (on the upper right corner).
Additionally, on GNU/Linux, it also shows the kernel version.</p>
<p>In client mode, the server connection status is displayed.</p>
<p>Connected:</p>
<img alt="images/connected.png" src="images/connected.png" />
<p>Disconnected:</p>
<img alt="images/disconnected.png" src="images/disconnected.png" />
</div>
<div class="section" id="cpu">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id17">CPU</a></h2>
<p>Short view:</p>
<img alt="images/cpu.png" src="images/cpu.png" />
<p>If enough horizontal space is available, extended CPU information are
displayed.</p>
<p>Extended view:</p>
<img alt="images/cpu-wide.png" src="images/cpu-wide.png" />
<p>To switch to per-CPU stats, just hit the <tt class="docutils literal">1</tt> key:</p>
<img alt="images/per-cpu.png" src="images/per-cpu.png" />
<p>The CPU stats are shown as a percentage and for the configured refresh
time. The total CPU usage is displayed on the first line.</p>
<div class="line-block">
<div class="line">If user|system CPU is <tt class="docutils literal">&lt;50%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;OK&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">If user|system CPU is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;50%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;CAREFUL&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">If user|system CPU is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;70%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;WARNING&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">If user|system CPU is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;90%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;CRITICAL&quot;</tt></div>
</div>
<p><em>Note</em>: limit values can be overwritten in the configuration file under
the <tt class="docutils literal">[cpu]</tt> and/or <tt class="docutils literal">[percpu]</tt> sections.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="load">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id18">Load</a></h2>
<img alt="images/load.png" src="images/load.png" />
<p>On the <em>No Sheep</em> blog, <em>Zachary Tirrell</em> defines the load average <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id3" id="id1">[1]</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
&quot;In short it is the average sum of the number of processes
waiting in the run-queue plus the number currently executing
over 1, 5, and 15 minutes time periods.&quot;</blockquote>
<p>Glances gets the number of CPU core to adapt the alerts.
Alerts on load average are only set on 15 minutes time period.
The first line also displays the number of CPU core.</p>
<div class="line-block">
<div class="line">If load average is <tt class="docutils literal">&lt;0.7*core</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;OK&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">If load average is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;0.7*core</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;CAREFUL&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">If load average is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;1*core</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;WARNING&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">If load average is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;5*core</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;CRITICAL&quot;</tt></div>
</div>
<p><em>Note</em>: limit values can be overwritten in the configuration file under
the <tt class="docutils literal">[load]</tt> section.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="memory">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id19">Memory</a></h2>
<p>Glances uses two columns: one for the <tt class="docutils literal">RAM</tt> and one for the <tt class="docutils literal">SWAP</tt>.</p>
<img alt="images/mem.png" src="images/mem.png" />
<p>If enough space is available, Glances displays extended information for
the <tt class="docutils literal">RAM</tt>:</p>
<img alt="images/mem-wide.png" src="images/mem-wide.png" />
<p>Alerts are only set for used memory and used swap.</p>
<div class="line-block">
<div class="line">If used memory|swap is <tt class="docutils literal">&lt;50%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;OK&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">If used memory|swap is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;50%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;CAREFUL&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">If used memory|swap is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;70%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;WARNING&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">If used memory|swap is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;90%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;CRITICAL&quot;</tt></div>
</div>
<p><em>Note</em>: limit values can be overwritten in the configuration file under
the <tt class="docutils literal">[memory]</tt> and/or <tt class="docutils literal">[memswap]</tt> sections.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="network">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id20">Network</a></h2>
<img alt="images/network.png" src="images/network.png" />
<p>Glances displays the network interface bit rate. The unit is adapted
dynamically (bits per second, kbits per second, Mbits per second, etc).</p>
<p>Alerts are only set if the maximum speed per network interface is available
(see sample in the configuration file).</p>
<p><em>Note</em>: it is possibile to define a list of network interfaces to hide
and per-interface limit values in the <tt class="docutils literal">[network]</tt> section of the
configuration file.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="disk-i-o">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id21">Disk I/O</a></h2>
<img alt="images/diskio.png" src="images/diskio.png" />
<p>Glances displays the disk I/O throughput. The unit is adapted dynamically.</p>
<p>There is no alert on this information.</p>
<p><em>Note</em>: it is possible to define a list of disks to hide under the
<tt class="docutils literal">[diskio]</tt> section in the configuration file.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="file-system">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id22">File System</a></h2>
<img alt="images/fs.png" src="images/fs.png" />
<p>Glances displays the used and total file system disk space. The unit is
adapted dynamically.</p>
<p>Alerts are set for used disk space.</p>
<div class="line-block">
<div class="line">If used disk is <tt class="docutils literal">&lt;50%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;OK&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">If used disk is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;50%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;CAREFUL&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">If used disk is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;70%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;WARNING&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">If used disk is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;90%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;CRITICAL&quot;</tt></div>
</div>
<p><em>Note</em>: limit values can be overwritten in the configuration file under
the <tt class="docutils literal">[filesystem]</tt> section.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="sensors">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id23">Sensors</a></h2>
<p>Glances can displays the sensors information using <cite>lm-sensors</cite>,
<cite>hddtemp</cite> and <cite>batinfo</cite> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id4" id="id2">[2]</a>.</p>
<p>All of the above libraries are available only on Linux.</p>
<p>As of lm-sensors, a filter is being applied in order to display
temperature only.</p>
<img alt="images/sensors.png" src="images/sensors.png" />
<p>There is no alert on this information.</p>
<p><em>Note</em>: limit values can be overwritten in the configuration file under
the <tt class="docutils literal">[sensors]</tt> section.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="processes-list">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id24">Processes List</a></h2>
<p>Compact view:</p>
<img alt="images/processlist.png" src="images/processlist.png" />
<p>Full view:</p>
<img alt="images/processlist-wide.png" src="images/processlist-wide.png" />
<p>Three views are available for processes:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Processes summary</li>
<li>Optional monitored processes list (see below)</li>
<li>Processes list</li>
</ul>
<p>The processes summary line display:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Tasks number (total number of processes)</li>
<li>Threads number</li>
<li>Running tasks number</li>
<li>Sleeping tasks number</li>
<li>Other tasks number (not running or sleeping)</li>
<li>Sort key</li>
</ul>
<p>By default, or if you hit the <tt class="docutils literal">a</tt> key, the processes list is
automatically sorted by:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">CPU</tt> if there is no alert (default behavior)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">CPU</tt> if a CPU or LOAD alert is detected</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">MEM</tt> if a memory alert is detected</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">Disk I/O</tt> if a CPU iowait alert is detected</li>
</ul>
<p>The number of processes in the list is adapted to the screen size.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">CPU%</tt></dt>
<dd>% of CPU used by the process</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">MEM%</tt></dt>
<dd>% of MEM used by the process</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">VIRT</tt></dt>
<dd>Total program size - Virtual Memory Size (VMS)</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">RES</tt></dt>
<dd>Resident Set Size (RSS)</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">PID</tt></dt>
<dd>Process ID</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">USER</tt></dt>
<dd>User ID</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">NI</tt></dt>
<dd>Nice level of the process (niceness other than 0 is highlighted)</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">S</tt></dt>
<dd>Process status (running process is highlighted)</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">TIME+</tt></dt>
<dd>Cumulative CPU time used</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">IOR/s</tt></dt>
<dd>Per process I/O read rate (in Byte/s)</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">IOW/s</tt></dt>
<dd>Per process I/O write rate (in Byte/s)</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">COMMAND</tt></dt>
<dd>Process command line (process name is highlighted)</dd>
</dl>
<p>Process status legend:</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">R</tt></dt>
<dd>Running</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">S</tt></dt>
<dd>Sleeping (may be interrupted)</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">D</tt></dt>
<dd>Disk sleep (may not be interrupted)</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">T</tt></dt>
<dd>Traced / Stopped</dd>
<dt><tt class="docutils literal">Z</tt></dt>
<dd>Zombie</dd>
</dl>
<p><em>Note</em>: limit values can be overwritten in the configuration file under
the <tt class="docutils literal">[process]</tt> section.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="monitored-processes-list">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id25">Monitored Processes List</a></h2>
<p>The monitored processes list allows user, through the configuration file,
to group processes and quickly show if the number of running processes is
not good.</p>
<img alt="images/monitored.png" src="images/monitored.png" />
<p>Each item is defined by:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">description</tt>: description of the processes (max 16 chars).</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">regex</tt>: regular expression of the processes to monitor.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">command</tt> (optional): full path to shell command/script for extended
stat. Should return a single line string. Use with caution.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">countmin</tt> (optional): minimal number of processes. A warning will
be displayed if number of processes &lt; count.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">countmax</tt> (optional): maximum number of processes. A warning will
be displayed if number of processes &gt; count.</li>
</ul>
<p>Up to 10 items can be defined.</p>
<p>For example, if you want to monitor the Nginx processes on a Web server,
the following definition should do the job:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
[monitor]
list_1_description=Nginx server
list_1_regex=.*nginx.*
list_1_command=nginx -v
list_1_countmin=1
list_1_countmax=4
</pre>
<p>If you also want to monitor the PHP-FPM daemon processes, you should add
another item:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
[monitor]
list_1_description=Nginx server
list_1_regex=.*nginx.*
list_1_command=nginx -v
list_1_countmin=1
list_1_countmax=4
list_1_description=PHP-FPM
list_1_regex=.*php-fpm.*
list_1_countmin=1
list_1_countmax=20
</pre>
<p>In client/server mode, the list is defined on the server side.
A new method, called <cite>getAllMonitored</cite>, is available in the APIs and
get the JSON representation of the monitored processes list.</p>
<p>Alerts are set as following:</p>
<div class="line-block">
<div class="line">If number of processes is 0, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;CRITICAL&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">If number of processes is min &lt; current &lt; max, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;OK&quot;</tt></div>
<div class="line">Else status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;WARNING&quot;</tt></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="logs">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id26">Logs</a></h2>
<img alt="images/logs.png" src="images/logs.png" />
<p>A log messages list is displayed in the bottom of the screen if (and
only if):</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>at least one <tt class="docutils literal">WARNING</tt> or <tt class="docutils literal">CRITICAL</tt> alert was occurred</li>
<li>space is available in the bottom of the console/terminal</li>
</ul>
<p>Each alert message displays the following information:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li>start datetime</li>
<li>duration if alert is terminated or <cite>ongoing</cite> if the alert is still in
progress</li>
<li>alert name</li>
<li>{min,avg,max} values or number of running processes for monitored
processes list alerts</li>
</ol>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="other-outputs">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id27">Other Outputs</a></h1>
<p>It is possible to export statistics to CSV file.</p>
<pre class="code console literal-block">
<span class="generic prompt">$</span> glances --output-csv /tmp/glances.csv
</pre>
<p>CSV files have two lines per stats:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Stats description</li>
<li>Stats (comma separated)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="api-documentation">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id28">API Documentation</a></h1>
<p>Glances uses a <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python.org/2/library/simplexmlrpcserver.html">XML-RPC server</a> and can be used by another client software.</p>
<p>API documentation is available at
<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/wiki/The-Glances-2.x-API-How-to">https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/wiki/The-Glances-2.x-API-How-to</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="support">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id29">Support</a></h1>
<p>To report a bug or a feature request use the bug tracking system at
<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/issues">https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/issues</a>.</p>
<p>Feel free to contribute!</p>
<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id3" rules="none">
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<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1">[1]</a></td><td><a class="reference external" href="http://nosheep.net/story/defining-unix-load-average/">http://nosheep.net/story/defining-unix-load-average/</a></td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id4" rules="none">
<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id2">[2]</a></td><td><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/nicolargo/batinfo">https://github.com/nicolargo/batinfo</a></td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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