Install Zenith Monitoring Tool on Ubuntu 24.04

Zenith is a command line tool for monitoring system resources and a running processes. This tool allows viewing CPU, memory, network, and disk usage. This tutorial demonstrates how to install Zenith monitoring tool on Ubuntu 24.04.

Install Zenith

Download the latest version of Zenith from GitHub:

wget -qO zenith.tgz https://github.com/bvaisvil/zenith/releases/latest/download/zenith.x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tgz

Extract the executable from archive to /usr/local/bin directory:

sudo tar xf zenith.tgz --strip-components=1 -C /usr/local/bin

We can check Zenith version as follows:

zenith --version

Remove no longer needed archive:

rm -rf zenith.tgz

Testing Zenith

Run the zenith command without any arguments:

zenith

Press CTRL+C to quit Zenith.

Uninstall Zenith

To remove Zenith, delete its corresponding file:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/zenith