{"id":45183,"date":"2024-01-14T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=45183"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:28:37","slug":"gnome-new-system-load-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/01\/gnome-new-system-load-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"GNOME Has New System Load (CPU, RAM, etc) Indicator on Top Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don’t remember how many tools, I’ve written about, for monitoring CPU, RAM, Network, and other system resources usage in Ubuntu. But, there’s a brand-new for GNOME, the default desktop environment.<\/p>\n

It’s Astra Monitor, a free open-source tool provides highly customizable interface<\/b> on Gnome top-panel, to monitor CPU<\/code>, GPU<\/code>, RAM memory<\/code>, disk storage<\/code>, network usage<\/code>, as well as hardware temperature, voltage, and fan speed.<\/p>\n

It supports displaying the data in real-time bar<\/code>, history graph<\/code>, percentage number<\/code>, with user selected order, in left, center, or right corner of panel.<\/p>\n

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Aster Monitor on GNOME Panel<\/p><\/div>\n

Besides having quick glance at system resource usage, user can also click on the indicator icon to pop-up a rich drop-down menu with detailed information. By moving cursor over the menu can also display even more about the hardware, resource load, processes, and so forth.
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The menu as well few buttons at bottom to quickly launch system monitor app, and open “Preferences” dialog for the indicator. There you may configure the indicator layout as you prefer.<\/p>\n\n\t\t