Install Saidar on Raspberry Pi

Saidar is a command line tool which provides information about system resources usage that updated at regular intervals. This tool allows to monitor CPU usage, memory usage, disk usage, network traffic, disk I/O, etc.

This tutorial shows how to install Saidar on Raspberry Pi.

Connect to Raspberry Pi via SSH. Then update the package lists and install Saidar by using these commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y saidar

When installation is finished, we can check version of Saidar:

saidar -v

Now we can run Saidar by simply executing:

saidar

We can use -c option to enable colored output.

saidar -c

By default, information about system resources usage is updated every 3 seconds. We can change refresh delay by using -d option.

saidar -d 1

If you want to completely remove Saidar and related dependencies, execute the following command:

sudo apt purge --autoremove -y saidar