dool 1.3.8

🔍 What is Dool?

Dool is a command line tool to monitor many aspects of your Linux system: CPU, Memory, Network, Load Average, etc. It also includes a robust plug-in architecture to allow monitoring other system metrics.

Dool is a Python3 compatible fork of Dstat.

📦 Installation:

1. Download the latest release archive file or clone the Git repo
2. Copy dool into your $PATH
3. Copy plugins/* to ~/.dool/ (optional)

✨ Usage:

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.

🖼️ Screenshots:

Dark mode (default)

Light mode

🔌 Plugins:

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 when you run dool --version

🎨 Colors:

Dool expects a 256 color compatible terminal. Most modern terminal emulators support this automatically. A --color16 option is available if you only have a 16 color terminal.

📈 Bits vs Bytes:

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 lower numbers in dstat. If you would rather see bandwidth reported in bytes you can use the --bytes option.

🧰 Other tools similar to Dool:

• htop
• btop
• iotop

🌿 Pull Requests and Branches

The latest stable release (plus bugfixes) will live on the master branch. 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.

Do you want to write your own plugin? Check out the skel plugin which should be well documented and serve as a good starting point.

👨 Team