Top 9 Command Line Tools in Security & Privacy

The best Command Line Tools within the Security & Privacy category - based on our collection of reviews & verified products.

Product categories

Command Line Tools DevOps Tools Monitoring Tools OS & Utilities Performance Monitoring System Monitoring

Summary

The top products on this list are Process Explorer, htop, and Process Monitor. All products here are categorized as: Software that operates from the command line or text interface. Software focused on protecting data, networks, and systems from unauthorized access, breaches, and other digital threats, ensuring confidentiality and integrity of information. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Process Explorer Landing Page

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Process Explorer

The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'l…

#Performance Monitoring #Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools 289 social mentions
htop Landing Page

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htop

htop - an interactive process viewer for Unix. This is htop, an interactive process viewer for Unix systems. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. Latest release: htop 2.

#Performance Monitoring #Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools
Process Monitor Landing Page

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Process Monitor

Monitor file system, Registry, process, thread and DLL activity in real-time.

#Performance Monitoring #Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools 186 social mentions
glances system monitoring Landing Page
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glances system monitoring

Glances is a cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python. Written in Python, Glances will run on almost any plaftorm : GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Performance Monitoring #Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools 23 social mentions
vtop Landing Page

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vtop

vtop is a graphical command-line tool that uses unicode braille to chart CPU and memory usage.

#Performance Monitoring #Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools
nmon Landing Page

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nmon

This systems administrator, tuner, benchmark tool gives you a huge amount of important performance...

#Performance Monitoring #Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools 2 social mentions
gtop Landing Page
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gtop

System monitoring dashboard for terminal
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Performance Monitoring #Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools 2 social mentions
Processes Landing Page

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Processes

https://www.oneperiodic.com/products/processes/

#Performance Monitoring #Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools
iftop Landing Page

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iftop

iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage.

#Performance Monitoring #Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools

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