Have used lm-sensors (on Ubuntu 18.10) $ sudo apt-get install lm-sensors Follow setup, say yes to scans, allow to add findings to /etc/modules $ sudo /etc/init.d/kmod start $ sensors also have $ sudo apt-get install fancontrol installed found fan through $ sudo pwmconfigbut not used see: https://askubuntu.com/questions/53762/how-to-use-lm-sensors http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/cosmic/en/man5/sensors.conf.5.html Currently just realtime in console $ watch sensors Also want to install gnuplot to monitor realtime graphs https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44470965/how-can-you-watch-gnuplot-realtime-data-plots-as-a-live-graph-with-automatic-up http://hxcaine.com/blog/2013/02/28/running-gnuplot-as-a-live-graph-with-automatic-updates/