Raspberry Pi

Monitor Raspberry Pi Performance Using gotop

A lightweight operating system is required to run on Raspberry Pi device because it contains only a single dedicated chip. The performance of the device relies heavily on the system usage and it’s better to keep a check on system health and performance by installing a proper tool that keeps you updated about your system resource utilization.

If you are looking for such tool, you should give a try and install gotop on your Raspberry Pi system, which is designed especially for monitor the system usage such as CPU, GPU, and RAM utilization.

To learn how to install gotop on Raspberry Pi, then this article will guide you.

Install gotop on Raspberry Pi

You cannot directly install gotop on Raspberry Pi system from “apt” command, however, you can follow the below-given steps to install this tool on Raspberry Pi:

Step 1: Install Snap Daemon
The gotop can be installed on Raspberry Pi from snap store. Thus, you must install it first through the following command:

$ sudo apt install snapd

Step 2: Install Core
You should also require installing Core on Raspberry Pi through following command to ensure latest version of package installation on the system:

$ sudo snap install core

Step 3: Install gotop from Snap Store
Once completing the core installation, you can run the following command to install gotop on Raspberry Pi:

$ sudo snap install gotop-brlin

Run gotop on Raspberry Pi

After installation, use the following command to launch gotop on the Raspberry Pi:

$ gotop-brlin

Note: Incase if the above command doesn’t work, reboot the system, and then run the command again.

Once you run the above command, you will see the system resource information, like CPU, RAM, Memory Usage, Disk usage, Temperature, Network usage, and ongoing processes.

At this point, you have successfully installed gotop on Raspberry Pi system and you can use this tool permanently to analyze the performance of your system.

Remove gotop from Raspberry Pi

You can remove gotop from Raspberry Pi anytime via following command:

$ sudo snap remove gotop

Conclusion

Monitoring the Raspberry Pi device is necessary when performing the multiple operations simultaneously, this will allow users to maintain performance without killing the desired tasks. Among many monitoring tools, “gotop” is one of the best terminal-based tools to monitor the overall system performance and it can be installed on Raspberry Pi easily from snap store using the above-mentioned guidelines.

About the author

Muhammad Nasir

Hi! I am an engineer and technical blogger by profession and I enjoy getting things done with electronics. I am using this platform to share my knowledge in the field of Raspberry Pi, Linux, and Embedded Systems with others.