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Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python.

It uses the psutil library to get information from your system.

• python >= 2.6 (tested with version 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4)
• psutil >= 2.0.0
• setuptools

Optionals dependencies:

• bottle (for Web server mode)
• py3sensors (for hardware monitoring support) [Linux-only]
• hddtemp (for HDD temperature monitoring support) [Linux-only]
• batinfo (for battery monitoring support) [Linux-only]
• pymdstat (for RAID support) [Linux-only]
• pysnmp (for SNMP support)
• zeroconf and netifaces (for the auto discoverer mode)
• influxdb (for the InfluxDB export module)
• statsd (for the StatsD export module)
• pystache (for the action script feature)
• docker-py (for the Docker monitoring support) [Linux-only]

To install both dependencies and latest Glances production ready version (aka master branch), just enter the following command line:

curl -L http://bit.ly/glances | /bin/bash

or

wget -O- http://bit.ly/glances | /bin/bash

Note: Only supported on some GNU/Linux distributions. If you want to support other distributions, please contribute to glancesautoinstall.

Glances is on PyPI. By using PyPI, you are sure to have the latest stable version.

To install, simply use pip:

pip install Glances

Note: Python headers are required to install psutil. For example, on Debian/Ubuntu you need to install first the python-dev package.

Note 2: You can also install the following libs in order to use optionnal features:

pip install bottle batinfo https://bitbucket.org/gleb_zhulik/py3sensors/get/tip.tar.gz zeroconf netifaces pymdstat influxdb statsd pystache

To upgrade Glances to the latest version:

pip install --upgrade Glances

If you need to install Glances in a specific user location, use:

export PYTHONUSERBASE=~/mylocalpath
pip install --user Glances

At the moment, packages exist for the following GNU/Linux distributions:

• Arch Linux
• Debian (Testing/Sid)
• Fedora/CentOS/RHEL
• Gentoo
• Slackware (SlackBuild)
• Ubuntu (13.04+)
• Void Linux

So you should be able to install it using your favorite package manager.

To install the binary package:

# pkg install py27-glances

To install Glances from ports:

# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/py-glances/
# make install clean

OS X users can install Glances using Homebrew or MacPorts.

$ brew install python
$ pip install Glances

$ sudo port install glances

• Install Python for Windows: http://www.python.org/getit/
• Install the psutil library: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=psutil#downloads
• Install the colorconsole library: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorconsole
• Install Glances Download Glances from here: http://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

To install Glances from source:

$ curl -L https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/archive/vX.Y.tar.gz -o glances-X.Y.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf glances-*.tar.gz
$ cd glances-*
# python setup.py install

Note: Python headers are required to install psutil. For example, on Debian/Ubuntu you need to install first the python-dev package.

You can install Glances using Puppet: https://github.com/rverchere/puppet-glances

For the standalone mode, just run:

$ glances

For the Web server mode, run:

$ glances -w

and enter the URL http://<ip>:61208 in your favorite web browser.

For the client/server mode, run:

$ glances -s

on the server side and run:

$ glances -c <ip>

on the client one.

You can also detect and display all Glances servers available on your network or defined in the configuration file:

$ glances --browser

and RTFM, always.

For complete documentation see glances-doc.

If you have any question (after RTFM!), please post it on the official Q&A forum.

Glances can export stats to: CSV file, InfluxDB and StatsD server.

If you want to contribute to the Glances project, read this Wiki page.

There is also a chat dedicated to the Glances' developpers:

Nicolas Hennion (@nicolargo) <nicolas@nicolargo.com>

LGPL. See COPYING for more details.