======= Glances ======= This manual describes *Glances* version 2.3. Copyright © 2011-2015 Nicolas Hennion January 2015 .. contents:: Table of Contents Introduction ============ 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. Glances can also work in client/server mode. Remote monitoring could be done via terminal or web interface. Glances is written in Python and uses the `psutil`_ library to get information from your system. Console (80x24) .. image:: images/screenshot.png Full view (>80x24) .. image:: images/screenshot-wide.png Web interface (Firefox) .. image:: images/screenshot-web.png Usage ===== Standalone Mode --------------- Simply run: .. code-block:: console $ glances Client/Server Mode ------------------ If you want to remotely monitor a machine, called ``server``, from another one, called ``client``, just run on the server: .. code-block:: console server$ glances -s and on the client: .. code-block:: console client$ glances -c @server where ``@server`` is the IP address or hostname of the server. Glances can centralize available Glances servers using the ``--browser`` option. The server list can be staticaly defined in the Glances configuration file (section [serverlist]). Glances can also detect and display all Glances servers available on you network (auto discover mode is based on the the Zeroconf protocol only available on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X): .. code-block:: console client$ glances --browser It is possible to disable the auto discover mode ``--disable-autodiscover``. In server mode, you can set the bind address ``-B ADDRESS`` and listening TCP port ``-p PORT``. In client mode, you can set the TCP port of the server ``-p PORT``. You can set a password to access to the server ``--password``. Default binding address is ``0.0.0.0`` (Glances will listen on all the available network interfaces) and TCP port is ``61209``. In client/server mode, limits are set by the server side. Glances is ``IPv6`` compatible. Just use the ``-B ::`` option to bind to all IPv6 addresses. As an experimental feature, if Glances server is not detected by the client, the latter will try to grab stats using the ``SNMP`` protocol: .. code-block:: console client$ glances -c @snmpserver Note: Stats grabbed by SNMP request are limited (operating system dependent). Web Server Mode --------------- If you want to remotely monitor a machine, called ``server``, from any device with a web browser, just run the server with the ``-w`` option: .. code-block:: console server$ glances -w and on the client enter the following URL in your favorite web browser: :: http://@server:61208 where ``@server`` is the IP address or hostname of the server. To change the refresh rate of the page, just add the period in seconds between refreshes at the end of the URL, ie. to refresh every 10s, use ``http://@server:61208/10``. The Glances web interface follows responsive web design principles. Screenshot from Chrome on Android .. image:: images/screenshot-web2.png Command Reference ================= Command-Line Options -------------------- -h, --help show this help message and exit -V, --version show program's version number and exit -d, --debug Enable debug mode -C CONF_FILE, --config CONF_FILE path to the configuration file --enable-history enable the history mode --disable-bold disable bold mode in the terminal --disable-diskio disable disk I/O module --disable-fs disable filesystem module --disable-network disable network module --disable-sensors disable sensors module --disable-left-sidebar disable left sidebar --disable-process disable process module --disable-log disable log module --enable-process-extended enable extended stats on top process --enable-history enable the history mode --path-history PATH_HISTORY Set the export path for graph history --export-csv CSV_FILE export stats to a CSV file --export-influxdb export stats to an InfluxDB server --export-statsd export stats to a Statsd server -c CLIENT, --client CLIENT connect to a Glances server by IPv4/IPv6 address or hostname -s, --server run Glances in server mode --browser run the Glances client browser (list of Glances server) --disable-autodiscover disable autodiscover feature -p PORT, --port PORT define the client/server TCP port [default: 61209] -B BIND_ADDRESS, --bind BIND_ADDRESS bind server to the given IPv4/IPv6 address or hostname --password-badidea PASSWORD_ARG define password from the command line --password define a client/server password from the prompt or file --disable-autodiscover Hide Glances server from the auto discover feature --snmp-community SNMP_COMMUNITY SNMP community --snmp-port SNMP_PORT SNMP port --snmp-version SNMP_VERSION SNMP version (1, 2c or 3) --snmp-user SNMP_USER SNMP username (only for SNMPv3) --snmp-auth SNMP_AUTH SNMP authentication key (only for SNMPv3) --snmp-force force SNMP mode -t TIME, --time TIME set refresh time in seconds [default: 3 sec] -w, --webserver run Glances in web server mode -f PROCESS_FILTER, --process-filter PROCESS_FILTER set the process filter patern (regular expression) --process-short-name force short name for processes name --hide-kernel-threads hide kernel threads in process list --tree display processes as a tree -b, --byte display network rate in byte per second -1, --percpu start Glances in per CPU mode --fs-free-space display FS free space instead of used --theme-white optimize display for white background Interactive Commands -------------------- The following commands (key pressed) are supported while in Glances: ``ENTER`` Set the process filter Filter is a regular expression pattern: - gnome: all processes starting with the gnome string - .*gnome.*: all processes containing the gnome string ``a`` Sort process list automatically - If CPU iowait ``>60%``, sort processes by I/O read and write - If CPU ``>70%``, sort processes by CPU usage - If MEM ``>70%``, sort processes by memory usage ``b`` Switch between bit/s or Byte/s for network I/O ``c`` Sort processes by CPU usage ``d`` Show/hide disk I/O stats ``e`` Enable/disable top extended stats ``f`` Show/hide file system stats ``F`` Switch between FS used and free space ``g`` Generate graphs for current history ``h`` Show/hide the help screen ``i`` Sort processes by I/O rate ``l`` Show/hide log messages ``m`` Sort processes by MEM usage ``n`` Show/hide network stats ``p`` Sort processes by name ``q`` or ``ESC`` Quit the current Glances session ``r`` Reset history ``s`` Show/hide sensors stats ``t`` Sort process by CPU times (TIME+) ``T`` View network I/O as combination ``u`` View cumulative network I/O ``w`` Delete finished warning log messages ``x`` Delete finished warning and critical log messages ``z`` Show/hide processes stats ``1`` Switch between global CPU and per-CPU stats ``2`` Enable/disable left sidebar ``/`` Switch between short name / command line (processes name) In the Glances client browser (accessible through the --browser command line argument): ``ENTER`` Run Glances client to the selected server ``UP`` Up in the servers list ``DOWN`` Down in the servers list ``q`` or ``ESC`` Quit Glances Configuration ============= No configuration file is mandatory to use Glances. Furthermore a configuration file is needed to set up limits, disks or network interfaces to hide and/or monitored processes list or to define alias. By default, the configuration file is under: :Linux: ``/etc/glances/glances.conf`` :\*BSD and OS X: ``/usr/local/etc/glances/glances.conf`` :Windows: ``%APPDATA%\glances\glances.conf`` On Windows XP, the ``%APPDATA%`` path is: :: C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data Since Windows Vista and newer versions: :: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming or %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming You can override the default configuration, located in one of the above directories on your system, except for Windows. Just copy the ``glances.conf`` file to your ``$XDG_CONFIG_HOME`` directory, e.g., on Linux: .. code-block:: console mkdir -p $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/glances cp /usr/share/doc/glances/glances.conf $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/glances/ On OS X, you should copy the configuration file to ``~/Library/Application Support/glances/``. *Configuration file description* Each plugin and export module can have a section. Example for the CPU plugin: .. code-block:: [cpu] user_careful=50 user_warning=70 user_critical=90 iowait_careful=50 iowait_warning=70 iowait_critical=90 system_careful=50 system_warning=70 system_critical=90 steal_careful=50 steal_warning=70 steal_critical=90 By default Steal CPU time alerts aren't logged. If you want to enable log/alert, just add: .. code-block:: steal_log=True Logs and debug mode =================== Glances logs all its internal messages to a log file. By default, only INFO & WARNING & ERROR &CRITICAL levels are logged, but DEBUG messages can ben logged using the -d option on the command line. By default, the log file is under: :Linux, \*BSD and OS X: ``/tmp/glances.log`` :Windows: ``%APPDATA%\Local\temp\glances.log`` If glances.log is not writable, a new file will be created and returned to the user console. Anatomy Of The Application ========================== Legend ------ | ``GREEN`` stat counter is ``"OK"`` | ``BLUE`` stat counter is ``"CAREFUL"`` | ``MAGENTA`` stat counter is ``"WARNING"`` | ``RED`` stat counter is ``"CRITICAL"`` *Note*: only stats with colored background will be logged in the alert view. Header ------ .. image:: images/header.png 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. In client mode, the server connection status is displayed. Connected: .. image:: images/connected.png Disconnected: .. image:: images/disconnected.png CPU --- Short view: .. image:: images/cpu.png If enough horizontal space is available, extended CPU information are displayed. Extended view: .. image:: images/cpu-wide.png To switch to per-CPU stats, just hit the ``1`` key: .. image:: images/per-cpu.png The CPU stats are shown as a percentage and for the configured refresh time. The total CPU usage is displayed on the first line. | If user|system CPU is ``<50%``, then status is set to ``"OK"`` | If user|system CPU is ``>50%``, then status is set to ``"CAREFUL"`` | If user|system CPU is ``>70%``, then status is set to ``"WARNING"`` | If user|system CPU is ``>90%``, then status is set to ``"CRITICAL"`` *Note*: limit values can be overwritten in the configuration file under the ``[cpu]`` and/or ``[percpu]`` sections. Load ---- .. image:: images/load.png On the *No Sheep* blog, *Zachary Tirrell* defines the load average [1]_: "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." 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. | If load average is ``<0.7*core``, then status is set to ``"OK"`` | If load average is ``>0.7*core``, then status is set to ``"CAREFUL"`` | If load average is ``>1*core``, then status is set to ``"WARNING"`` | If load average is ``>5*core``, then status is set to ``"CRITICAL"`` *Note*: limit values can be overwritten in the configuration file under the ``[load]`` section. Memory ------ Glances uses two columns: one for the ``RAM`` and one for the ``SWAP``. .. image:: images/mem.png If enough space is available, Glances displays extended information for the ``RAM``: .. image:: images/mem-wide.png Alerts are only set for used memory and used swap. | If used memory|swap is ``<50%``, then status is set to ``"OK"`` | If used memory|swap is ``>50%``, then status is set to ``"CAREFUL"`` | If used memory|swap is ``>70%``, then status is set to ``"WARNING"`` | If used memory|swap is ``>90%``, then status is set to ``"CRITICAL"`` *Note*: limit values can be overwritten in the configuration file under the ``[memory]`` and/or ``[memswap]`` sections. Network ------- .. image:: images/network.png Glances displays the network interface bit rate. The unit is adapted dynamically (bits per second, kbits per second, Mbits per second, etc). Alerts are only set if the maximum speed per network interface is available (see sample in the configuration file). *Note*: it is possibile to define a list of network interfaces to hide and per-interface limit values in the ``[network]`` section of the configuration file and aliases for interface name. Disk I/O -------- .. image:: images/diskio.png Glances displays the disk I/O throughput. The unit is adapted dynamically. There is no alert on this information. *Note*: it is possible to define a list of disks to hide under the ``[diskio]`` section in the configuration file and aliases for disk name. File System ----------- .. image:: images/fs.png Glances displays the used and total file system disk space. The unit is adapted dynamically. Alerts are set for used disk space. | If used disk is ``<50%``, then status is set to ``"OK"`` | If used disk is ``>50%``, then status is set to ``"CAREFUL"`` | If used disk is ``>70%``, then status is set to ``"WARNING"`` | If used disk is ``>90%``, then status is set to ``"CRITICAL"`` *Note*: limit values can be overwritten in the configuration file under the ``[filesystem]`` section. Sensors ------- Glances can displays the sensors information using `lm-sensors`, `hddtemp` and `batinfo` [2]_. All of the above libraries are available only on Linux. As of lm-sensors, a filter is being applied in order to display temperature only. .. image:: images/sensors.png There is no alert on this information. *Note*: limit values and sensors alias names can be defined in the configuration file under the ``[sensors]`` section. Processes List -------------- Compact view: .. image:: images/processlist.png Full view: .. image:: images/processlist-wide.png Three views are available for processes: * Processes summary * Optional monitored processes list (see below) * Processes list The processes summary line display: * Tasks number (total number of processes) * Threads number * Running tasks number * Sleeping tasks number * Other tasks number (not running or sleeping) * Sort key By default, or if you hit the ``a`` key, the processes list is automatically sorted by: * ``CPU`` if there is no alert (default behavior) * ``CPU`` if a CPU or LOAD alert is detected * ``MEM`` if a memory alert is detected * ``Disk I/O`` if a CPU iowait alert is detected The number of processes in the list is adapted to the screen size. ``CPU%`` % of CPU used by the process ``MEM%`` % of MEM used by the process ``VIRT`` Total program size - Virtual Memory Size (VMS) ``RES`` Resident Set Size (RSS) ``PID`` Process ID ``USER`` User ID ``NI`` Nice level of the process (niceness other than 0 is highlighted) ``S`` Process status (running process is highlighted) ``TIME+`` Cumulative CPU time used ``IOR/s`` Per process I/O read rate (in Byte/s) ``IOW/s`` Per process I/O write rate (in Byte/s) ``COMMAND`` Process command line User cans switch to the process name by pressing on the ``/`` key Process status legend: ``R`` Running ``S`` Sleeping (may be interrupted) ``D`` Disk sleep (may not be interrupted) ``T`` Traced / Stopped ``Z`` Zombie In standalone mode, additionals informations are provided for the top process: .. image:: images/processlist-top.png * CPU affinity (number of cores used by the process) * Extended memory information (swap, shared, text, lib, data and dirty on Linux) * Open threads, files and network sessions (TCP and UDP) * IO nice level The extended stats feature could be enabled using the --enable-process-extended option (command line) or the ``e`` key (curses interface). *Note*: limit values can be overwritten in the configuration file under the ``[process]`` section. Monitored Processes List ------------------------ 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. .. image:: images/monitored.png Each item is defined by: * ``description``: description of the processes (max 16 chars). * ``regex``: regular expression of the processes to monitor. * ``command`` (optional): full path to shell command/script for extended stat. Should return a single line string. Use with caution. * ``countmin`` (optional): minimal number of processes. A warning will be displayed if number of processes < count. * ``countmax`` (optional): maximum number of processes. A warning will be displayed if number of processes > count. Up to 10 items can be defined. For example, if you want to monitor the Nginx processes on a Web server, the following definition should do the job: :: [monitor] list_1_description=Nginx server list_1_regex=.*nginx.* list_1_command=nginx -v list_1_countmin=1 list_1_countmax=4 If you also want to monitor the PHP-FPM daemon processes, you should add another item: :: [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 In client/server mode, the list is defined on the server side. A new method, called `getAllMonitored`, is available in the APIs and get the JSON representation of the monitored processes list. Alerts are set as following: | If number of processes is 0, then status is set to ``"CRITICAL"`` | If number of processes is min < current < max, then status is set to ``"OK"`` | Else status is set to ``"WARNING"`` Logs ---- .. image:: images/logs.png A log messages list is displayed in the bottom of the screen if (and only if): - at least one ``WARNING`` or ``CRITICAL`` alert was occurred - space is available in the bottom of the console/terminal Each alert message displays the following information: 1. start datetime 2. duration if alert is terminated or `ongoing` if the alert is still in progress 3. alert name 4. {min,avg,max} values or number of running processes for monitored processes list alerts Docker ------ If you use Docker, Glances can help you to monitor your container. Glances uses the Docker API through the Docker-Py library. .. image:: images/docker.png Actions ------- Glances can trigger actions on events. By action, we mean all shell command line. For example, if you want to execute the foo.py script if the last 5 minutes load are critical then add the action line to the Glances configuration file: [load] critical=5.0 critical_action=python /path/to/foo.py All the stats are available in the command line through the use of the {{mustache}} syntax. Another example to create a log file containing used vs total disk space if a space trigger warning is reached: [fs] warning=70 warning_action=echo {{mnt_point}} {{used}}/{{size}} > /tmp/fs.alert *Note*: You can use all the stats for the current plugin (see https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/wiki/The-Glances-2.x-API-How-to for the stats list) Gateway to others services ========================== *CSV* It is possible to export statistics to CSV file. .. code-block:: console $ glances --export-csv /tmp/glances.csv CSV file description: - Stats description (first line) - Stats (others lines) *InfluxDB* You can export statistics to an InfluxDB server (time series server). The connection should be defined in the Glances configuration file as following: .. code-block:: [influxdb] host=localhost port=8086 user=root password=root db=glances and run Glances with: .. code-block:: console $ glances --export-influxdb *Statsd* You can export statistics to a Statsd server (welcome to Graphite !). The connection should be defined in the Glances configuration file as following: .. code-block:: [statsd] host=localhost port=8125 prefix=glances Note: the prefix option is optionnal ('glances by default') and run Glances with: .. code-block:: console $ glances --export-statsd Glances will generate stats as: .. code-block:: 'glances.cpu.user': 12.5, 'glances.cpu.total': 14.9, 'glances.load.cpucore': 4, 'glances.load.min1': 0.19, ... APIs Documentations =================== Glances includes a `XML-RPC server`_ and a `RESTFUL-JSON`_ API which and can be used by another client software. APIs documentations are available at: - XML-RPC: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/wiki/The-Glances-2.x-API-How-to - RESTFUL-JSON: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/wiki/The-Glances-RESTFULL-JSON-API Support ======= To post a question about Glances use case, please post it to the offical Q&A `forum`_. To report a bug or a feature request use the bug tracking system at https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/issues. Feel free to contribute ! .. [1] http://nosheep.net/story/defining-unix-load-average/ .. [2] https://github.com/nicolargo/batinfo .. _psutil: https://code.google.com/p/psutil/ .. _XML-RPC server: http://docs.python.org/2/library/simplexmlrpcserver.html .. _RESTFUL-JSON: http://jsonapi.org/ .. _forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/glances-users