HTOP for dummies?

Question

linux

The server has been busy lately. There are no visitors, the project is under development, but has been functioning for about a year. At the same time, recently I began to notice "brakes". Having opened htop, I see that all processor cores are loaded by 5-15%, despite the fact that several scripts are constantly running on the server, which previously did not cause processor load at all.
Also, memory consumption is constantly increasing. At the very bottom of the list of processes there are a bunch of some kind of "kworker", "migration", they didn't seem to exist before.
The reason for the load, as I understand it, is mariadb, because. after its reboot, the load is zero for some time, and then slowly begins to grow.
In system administration, I'm a teapot, I use htop at the "I can forcibly kill a process" level. Are there any alternatives to htop?

Answer 1

Try the USE method . There you can also find tools with which you can look at utilization, saturation and errors for each of the subsystems.