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Monitor your Android system with Glances

Nicolas Hennion edited this page May 17, 2017 · 2 revisions

Glances can be installed on your rooted Android system and used to monitor locally or remotely your device.

Install Glances on your Android device

Please follow this procedure.

You need a rooted Android system to use Glances.

Monitor locally your Android device

Start the Temux application and enter the following command line:

$ glances

If you want to stop the process, please have a long click on the screen then More... > Kill process.

Monitor remotely your Android device

From a GNU/Linux or MacOS terminal

First of all install Glances on you GNU/Linux or MacOS.

On your Android, start the Temux application and enter the command line:

$ ifconfig

Found your local IP address (probably the wlan0 one), then start Glances in server mode (-s):

$ glances -s

On your GNU/Linux or MacOS, enter the command line in a terminal:

$ glances -c <@ip android device>

And here it is:

Android Glances

From a Web browser

On your Android, start the Temux application and enter the command line:

$ ifconfig

Found your local IP address (probably the wlan0 one), then start Glances in Web server mode (-w):

$ glances -w

On your Windows, GNU/Linux or MacOS, start your Web browser and enter the following URL:

<@ip android device>:61208