Apart from these tools, Yocto also offers the standard monitoring tools available on a Linux system. Some examples are:

• htop: This tool is available in the meta-oe layer and provides process monitoring
• iotop: This tool is also included in the meta-oe layer and provides block device I/O statistics by process
• procps: This one is available in Poky and includes the following tools:
  • ps: This tool is used to list and provide process statuses.
  • vmstat: This is used for virtual memory statistics.
  • uptime: This is useful for load averages monitoring.
  • free: This is used for memory usage monitoring. Remember to take kernel caches into account.
  • slabtop: This one provides memory usage statistics for the kernel slab allocator.
• sysstat: This is available in Poky and contains, among others, the following tools:
  • pidstat: This is another option for process statistics
  • iostat: This one provides block I/O statistics
  • mpstat: This tool provides multi-processor statistics

And Yocto also offers the following network tools:

• tcpdump: This networking tool is included in the meta-networking layer in meta-openembedded. It captures and analyzes network traffic.
• netstat: This is part of the net-tools package in Poky. It provides network protocol statistics.
• ss: This tool is included in the iproute2 package in Poky. It provides sockets statistics.