Htop is an interactive system-monitor process-viewer and process-manager. It is designed as an alternative to the Unix program top. It shows a frequently updated list of the processes running on a computer, normally ordered by the amount of CPU usage.

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Usage

Installation

CentOS/RHEL: On CentOS/RHEL, at first we need to install EPEL reposiroty:

# RHEL/CentOS 8:
dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

# RHEL/CentOS 7:
yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

# RHEL/CentOS 6:
yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm

Then run this command to install Htop:

sudo yum install htop -y

Fedora OS: Run this command:

sudo yum install htop -y

Debian/Ubuntu/Kali: Run this command:

sudo apt install htop -y

Usage

Just run htop command and see output like this: