If you are a Linux system administrator, then monitoring the server load is necessary to maintain stable performance. The server load is an average of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs. It can be defined as an average load over a specific interval of time. If your server load is higher, it will become very slow, sometimes resulting in a shutdown.
In simple terms, the server load refers to the incoming traffic, login requests, hits, and whether the server is available for all users. There are many tools available in Linux for monitoring server load. Monitoring the server load through the command line can save your time and gives you an accurate value of the server load.
In this post, we will show you how to check server load in Linux.