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Is there any option to check CPU usage dynamically?

I’ve been trying to track the CPU usage in droplets,however I can only find time-defined options. Is there any way available to track the CPU usage dynamically?

Thanks in advance.

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Bobby Iliev • March 13, 2022

Hello,

What I would personally do is to use a command like top or htop. Both commands will show you your current CPU usage in real time.

You can follow the steps here on how to use the commands:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-find-the-processes-that-are-consuming-the-most-server-resources

This answer also includes an example of how to use the sar command too.

Hope that this helps!

Regards,

Bobby

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