2 Monitor your Android system with Glances
Nicolas Hennion edited this page 2017-05-17 17:27:02 +02:00

Glances can be installed on your rooted Android system and used to monitor locally or remotely your device.

Install Glances on your Android device

Please follow this procedure.

You need a rooted Android system to use Glances.

Monitor locally your Android device

Start the Temux application and enter the following command line:

$ glances

If you want to stop the process, please have a long click on the screen then More... > Kill process.

Monitor remotely your Android device

From a GNU/Linux or MacOS terminal

First of all install Glances on you GNU/Linux or MacOS.

On your Android, start the Temux application and enter the command line:

$ ifconfig

Found your local IP address (probably the wlan0 one), then start Glances in server mode (-s):

$ glances -s

On your GNU/Linux or MacOS, enter the command line in a terminal:

$ glances -c <@ip android device>

And here it is:

Android Glances

From a Web browser

On your Android, start the Temux application and enter the command line:

$ ifconfig

Found your local IP address (probably the wlan0 one), then start Glances in Web server mode (-w):

$ glances -w

On your Windows, GNU/Linux or MacOS, start your Web browser and enter the following URL:

<@ip android device>:61208