📈 How to Check VPS Resource Usage: CPU, RAM & Disk

Monitoring your VPS resource usage helps prevent slowdowns and downtime. You can track server load via the terminal or the VMmanager panel. This article covers both methods.

💻 Using top and htop (Linux)

• 🔹 Open the terminal and type top to see active processes and CPU/RAM load
• 🔹 Install htop with sudo apt install htop (or yum install htop)
• 🔹 Run htop — it provides a visual interface with sorting and filtering options
• 📌 Top bars show per-core CPU usage, memory consumption, and swap status

📊 Monitoring in VMmanager

• 🔐 Log in to VMmanager panel and select your server
• 📈 Go to the Monitoring tab to see graphs for CPU, memory, disk, and network usage
• 📅 Choose a time range: 24 hours, 1 week, 1 month
• 📥 Export stats and set up alerts if needed

🧠 Tips for Monitoring Resources

• ⚠ Watch RAM usage — insufficient memory can slow down websites and databases
• ⚠ CPU consistently above 90% is a sign of overload
• ⚠ Check disk space using df -h
• 🔄 If swap is used, check it with free -m to avoid performance issues