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Add btop as application to the image
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Description

Summary

Add btop as application to the image

Use case

There are today several other flavours of CLI-monitoring but btop is currently missing.

To me btop gives a better overall view compared to monitoring bandwidth and the others.

Other currently available options:

  • monitoring bandwidth
  • top
  • htop
  • atop

Additional information

One argument against including yet another CLI-monitoring tool could be that the image size would increase.

But if kernel modules compression are enabled as with this feature request there might be some additional space available (even if the squashfs file as a whole already uses high xz compression)?

https://vyos.dev/T5641

Details

Version
2026.03
Is it a breaking change?
Unspecified (possibly destroys the router)
Issue type
Feature (new functionality)

Event Timeline

Apachez created this object in space S1 VyOS Public.
Viacheslav triaged this task as Wishlist priority.Jul 7 2026, 2:26 PM