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Android app to alert me when offline for a long time
Tasker might be an app to go with here. It doesn't come for free (there's a 7 day trial at their homepage, but then it's ~USD 5 if you really want to use it after that), and it requires some effort to ...
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Linux (Ubuntu) Alert on desktop on full local disk
Ubuntu already includes a disk space warning alert as part of dconf.
You can configure the settings by installing the dconf-tools:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
Start the dconf Editor:
dconf-...
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OS X app to show GPU usage?
At least as of macOS 10.14 Mojave, this is now built-in to Activity Monitor. Choose ‘Window → GPU History’ (or hit ⌘4):
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Track websites for changes
Trackly is worth a look, it will email you an image of the webpage with changes highlighted. Hourly and daily checks available.
It works well even with very dynamic web pages using tons of javascript ...
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Software to monitor Windows API calls on a Windows 7
I have always used API Monitor from Rohitab. Not only does it do what you want but it also has other functions.
It supports Windows 7, including x64. Windows 10 is not (yet) listed as a supported OS (...
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Stop logging to files. But what system to choose?
You might want to log to SQLite databases instead of plain text files for the following reasons:
SQLite is part of the python standard runtime library. Thus, databases can be created, filled and ...
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Stop logging to files. But what system to choose?
You might be able to use:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-elk-stack-on-ubuntu-14-04
Logstash forwards the logs to the central logging ...
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Display the total number of reads and writes for a given disk in a Linux shell
You can use smartctl.
smartctl (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a command line utility or a tool in UNIX like operating system that perform SMART tasks such as printing the ...
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I am searching for a software that monitors activity on my computer
The program in the video that you linked to is called Rescue Time
Features you requested:
tracks which programs I use for how long
A.Tracks time spent on applications and websites, giving you an ...
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Getting a notification when a website becomes online
How about this:
A simple POSIX compliant shell script. I tested it with both GNU and
busybox versions of wget and in bash and ash. It opens a
connection every 10 seconds and exits when a connection ...
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Any free APIs or ways to get site status updates?
We use Nagios for simple monitoring tasks:
Your requirements:
Open Source
Can Monitor a site to see whether it is up or not
Publish that data to a web interface
Presents graphs and statistics
More:
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Software to monitor Windows API calls on a Windows 7
I'll recommend you Nektra SpyStudio, it can trace Windows API calls and 3rd party calls as seen in the image below. It works great on any Windows, however, I never noticed whether it can trace ...
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Command line or terminal-based dashboard
tmux + config mgmt is definitely a good option if you already have the CLI tools you need to display what you want (tail, grep, awk, gplot, etc.)
That said, blessed contrib is an interesting project ...
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Monitor bandwidth used per site
Use GlassWire's Firewall Software.
It shows the bandwidth per server and per app.
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Sniffing and Analysing Internet Usage via Port Mirroring
Capsa seems to correspond with your requirements:
Must run on Windows or Linux. Former preferred: Runs on Windows, at least from XP to Windows-8 are supported officially.
Not software that needs to ...
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Monitor Hardware on Windows
HWinfo can help you. It logs almost every sensor. Every voltage and frequency. Data is from cpu, gpu, motherboard, fans and disks.
You can start sensors and logging them to a csv file. Link: http://...
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Server & application monitoring
Java Management Extensions (JMX)
The Java platform supplies tools for managing and monitoring. The JMX architecture lets you build in instrumentation to report current status at runtime.
That ...
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Simple tool to check that Microsoft (and, optionally, Adobe) software is up-to-date on multiple PCs
Belarc Advisor is a free program which may serve your objective. It does periodic updates via internet definition database, but otherwise does not communicate specific information to the source.
It ...
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Free options to MySQL Query Analyzer
If you are looking for something to help you analyze and optimize queries, the two tools that I can recommend most are Percona's PMM and Shattered Silicon's SSM (fork of PMM v1). Both support ...
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Real-time Registry Monitoring
Process Monitor has a GUI as you mentioned.
And it also has a feature called "Boot Logging", which turns Process Monitor into a driver that monitors everything silently until you start it again and ...
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Monitoring Software
Why not use nagios itself? It still works great and is widely documented and supported.
open source - of course
Service status across platforms - nagios has agents that can run on almost anything
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Command line or terminal-based dashboard
tmux and teamocil let you split a terminal window into panes and run commands in each pane.
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Open source libraries for metrics and dashboards to display them
Yeah, there are gratis open source software for both real-time and batch plotting of code metrics. They are:
Graphite
About Graphite:
Graphite does two things:
Store numeric time-series data
Render ...
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Software to determine which VM needs more resources
Virtualization Manager
Gain full control of VMware® and Hyper-V® environments
Hyper-V® and VMware® Management Dashboards
Identify and remediate VMware and Hyper-V problems
Decrease mean time to ...
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How to monitor file/folder changes made while offline?
It sounds like what you need is a full VCS, version control system, of which there are several free ones. More specifically you need a, DVCS, Distributed VCS.
With such a system each of you would ...
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Command line tool on Ubuntu Server to see disk IO stats?
If you want to see the overall current status and performance of your I/O, in my experience the easiest and clearest of all is atop (packaged in most distros):
You can just read the "DSK" and "LVM" ...
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Monitoring PCI Express bus usage
I believe this can be accomplished with the Intel Performance Counter Monitor (PCM) tools: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-performance-counter-monitor. As of v2.5 it supports PCIe ...
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.NET Application monitoring tools
@Puneet, with the scant details relating to your specific technology stack and architecture it is difficult to give you a precise answer.
But, on a high-level, I suggest you take a serious look at ...
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Automatically upload file
Syncfusion Data Integration Platform is an option to consider. The Data Integration Platform is based on Apache Nifi, so you could also consider Nifi if you need it to be open source. The Syncfusion ...
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Android app the send video over wifi to another phone
You can try IP WebCam
Create a hotspot from the "camera" phone.
Join the hotspot on the "viewer" phone.
Open the app on IPWebcam on the camera phone.
Open a browser and connect to the address ...
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