Dool is a Python3 compatible fork of Dstat.

After Dag Wieers ceased development of Dstat I forked the project to continue development.

Dool is a command line tool to monitor many aspects of your system: CPU, Memory, Network, Load Average, etc. It also includes a robust plug-in architecture to allow monitoring other system metrics.

1. Download the latest release archive file or clone the Git repo
2. Extract the archive to an appropriate temporary directory on your system
3. Run the install.py script

dool [--preset] [--plugin] [delay]

My most common usage of Dool is:

dool --more 15

which uses the --more preset and outputs data every 15 seconds. Available presets are --defaults, --more, or --all. If no delay is specified, Dool will default to outputting every second.

Dark mode (default)

Light mode

Dool ships with many plug-ins to configure the output to your taste.

dool --cpu --net --time --full 15  # Show CPU usage, and each network interface
dool --disk --memory 5             # Show disk totals, and memory consumption
dool --cpu --load --swap --time 60 # Show CPU, load, and swap

A list of available plug-ins are available if you run dool --version

Dool requires a 256 color compatible terminal. Most modern terminal emulators support this automatically.

Other tools similar to Dool

• htop
• btop
• iotop