The Best System Monitor for Android
Elixir
- Offers detailed information about an Android device's hardware, including battery status and remaining charge cycles, wireless networking (3G, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth) hardware and status, used and available internal and SD storage, CPU and memory utilization, system settings, and other hardware components
- Allows users to change system settings (brightness, timeout, volume, ringer, networking, etc,) enable or disable hardware sensors, and manage installed applications from the information screen inside the app
- Offers home screen widgets that can be customized to fit on any home screen and provide direct access to often-used system settings or simply display system performance and resource utilization
- Offers optional personal and admin add-on applications that manage contacts, missed calls, SMS messages, and admin-level tasks for users who are willing to grant additional permissions.
PC Monitor
- Allows you to remotely monitor system status and performance of multiple remote computers, including CPU utilization, memory allocation and utilization, usage history, and uptime
- Provides ping and response time from phone to remote system
- Offers access to system services, network and interface status, running processes, and logged-in users.
- Allows you to browse hard drives and the file system, event logs, system reports, and hardware details
- Sends start/stop/pause commands to system services, logs off users, kills process, supports command prompts on remote systems, allows you to manage users (enable/disable/reset passwords) in Active Directory
- Allows you to update the system via Windows update, manage Exchange servers, and manage virtual systems in Hyper-V
- Sends alerts when a remote computer goes down, starts up, has a low battery, or when services stop unexpectedly, users log in or out, and more, including custom alerts
- Encrypts monitoring traffic between the phone and the remote system
Elixir may be overkill for some people who want a system monitor, or a tool to keep an eye on their storage or running processes, but it's the sheer amount of information that Elixir collects and presents to you that makes it the best. Plus, because Elixir allows you to manage and change so many system options in the same application, you can't go wrong. Elixir gives you one place to go to learn everything you could possibly want to know about an Android device, and then tweak everything from sensor settings to installed applications, all in one app.
PC Monitor gives you a comprehensive monitoring suite to connect to and examine remote computers from your Android device. If you manage a Windows or Linux home server (or a few servers in a small enterprise setting,) and need to be able to tunnel into them even when you're away from your desk, PC Monitor gives you quick access to it from your Android phone. It even allows you to manage virtual devices, and control virtually every aspect of your remote system.
Indeed, there's no shortage of system monitoring apps for Android, ranging from tiny one-glance widgets to deep-dive apps that offer incredible detail.
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