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At the console in the GUI it is easy to pull up the System monitor to see CPU load, Memory usage, and Network utilization.

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As I mention in this answer:

System Monitor doesn't accurately show memory usage

I use the htop command sometimes, but am more interested in seeing a running history trend just like System-monitor instead of instantaneous values like htop shows

So is there a character terminal equivalent that can show trends and also run over ssh connections?

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One option is to use dstat

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dstat

then run it by simply entering

dstat

to get this default output which updates every second and provides column headers with every screenful:

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dstat is very versatile. Here is an article that explains the command line switches and shows some of the advanced options:

5+ “dstat” Command Usage Examples in Linux

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