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SynoCli Monitor Tools

The synocli-monitor package provides some monitoring related tools to advanced Linux users.

Tool Description License
busybox This package includes some process utilities provided by busybox: iostat, pgrep, pmap, watch (and pstree on DSM 5). GPL
ionice ionice - set or get process I/O scheduling class and priority. It is part of util-linux, a random collection of Linux utilities. GPLv2
lsof lsof is a command listing open files. License
nmon / njmon nmon (Nigel's performance Monitor) is a performance monitoring tool for Linux. njmon is similar but saves data to JSON format for a new generation of online time-series databases and web-browser graphing. GPLv3
iperf2 A tool for measuring TCP and UDP network performance, based on iperf 2.0.5. BSD
iperf3 The iperf series of tools perform active measurements to determine the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks. It supports tuning of various parameters related to timing, protocols, and buffers. three clause BSD
htop Interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. You need to call this with the full path, as an older version of htop is included in DSM 5.1 and newer. GPLv2
btop Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. Apache 2.0
cpulimit CPU usage limiter for Linux. GPLv2+
bandwhich CLI utility for displaying current network utilization by process, connection and remote IP/hostname. MIT
btm (bottom) A customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal. MIT
procs A modern replacement for ps written in Rust. MIT
net-snmp Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a widely used protocol for monitoring the health and welfare of network equipment. Net-SNMP is a suite of applications used to implement SNMP v1, v2c and v3 using both IPv4 and IPv6. Only command line tools are included in the synocli-monitor package. The daemon snmpd is provided by Synology and running on DSM when activated. Synology provides a single command line tool snmpwalk; that's why you have to use the full qualified name if you want to run snmpwalk provided by this package. MIT
lm-sensors lm-sensors provides user-space support for the hardware monitoring drivers in Linux 2.6.5 and later (sensors, sensors-detect, fancontrol). GPLv2