Dool is a Python3 compatible fork of Dstat.
After Dag Wieers ceased development of Dstat I forked the project to continue development.
Dool is a command line tool to monitor many aspects of your system: CPU, Memory, Network, Load Average, etc. It also includes a robust plug-in architecture to allow monitoring other system metrics.
- Download the latest release archive file or clone the Git repo
- Extract the archive to an appropriate temporary directory on your system
- Run the
install.pyscript
dool [--preset] [--plugin] [delay]
My most common usage of Dool is:
dool --more 15
which uses the --more preset and outputs data every 15 seconds. Available
presets are --defaults, --more, or --all. If no delay is specified,
Dool will default to outputting every second.
Dark mode (default)
Light mode
Dool ships with many plug-ins to configure the output to your taste.
dool --cpu --net --time --full # Show CPU usage, and each network interface
dool --disk -D total,sda,sdd # Show the total disk IO, and /dev/sda and /dev/sdd
dool --net -N eth0,eth1 # Show the network traffic for eth0 and eth1
A list of available plug-ins are available if you run dool --version
Dool requires a 256 color compatible terminal. Most modern terminal emulators support this automatically.
One of the changes in dool is measurement of network and disk bandwidth in
bits instead of bytes. This can be confusing if you're used to seeing the
lower numbers in dstat. If you'd rather see bandwidth reported in bytes you
can pass the --bytes option.
Other tools similar to Dool
The latest stable release (plus bugfixes) will live on the master branch,
and development of new features will occur on the next branch. Please have
pull requests target the next branch.
Various feature/bug branches may come and go as we work on more complex functionality, but those can be safely ignored.