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

• python >= 2.6 or >= 3.3 (tested with version 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5)
• psutil >= 2.0.0
• setuptools

Optional 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 (for the autodiscover mode)
• netifaces (for the IP plugin)
• 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]
• matplotlib (for graphical/chart support)
• pika (for the RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ export module)
• bernhard (for the Riemann export module)
• py-cpuinfo (for the Quicklook CPU info module)
• scandir (for the Folders plugin) [Only for Python < 3.5]

Several method to test/install Glances on your system. Choose your weapon !

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

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

or

wget -O- https://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. For Fedora/CentOS/RHEL install first python-devel package.

You can also install the following libraries in order to use optional features (like the Web interface):

pip install bottle batinfo https://bitbucket.org/gleb_zhulik/py3sensors/get/tip.tar.gz zeroconf netifaces pymdstat influxdb potsdb statsd pystache docker-py pysnmp pika py-cpuinfo scandir

Install or upgrade Glances from the Git develop repository:

git clone -b develop https://github.com/nicolargo/glances.git

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

A Glances container is available. It will include the latest development HEAD version. You can use it to monitor your server and all your others containers !

Get the Glances container:

docker pull nicolargo/glances

Run the container in console mode:

docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro --pid host -it docker.io/nicolargo/glances

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

• Arch Linux
• Debian
• Fedora/CentOS/RHEL
• Gentoo
• Slackware (SlackBuild)
• Ubuntu
• 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 (Python 2.7.9+ and 3.4+ ship with pip) and then just:

$ pip install glances

To install Glances from source:

$ wget https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/archive/vX.Y.tar.gz -O - | tar xz
$ 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.

An awesome Chef cookbook is available to monitor your infrastructure: https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/glances (thanks to Antoine Rouyer)

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

For Python 2.6 RedHat-based distros there might be an issue with starting Glances:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/glances", line 5, in <module> from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2655, in <module> workingset.require(_requires) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 648, in require needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements)) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 546, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req) pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: argparse

Try upgrading setuptools, has been proven to solve the problem:

sudo pip install -U setuptools

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 have a look at the readthedocs website.

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

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

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

There is also a chat dedicated to the Glances developers:

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

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