This deserves a place next to Brendan Gregg’s performance diagrams.
If you take top and put it on steroids, you get htop.
htop has an awesome visual interface that you can also interact with using your keyboard. The screen packs a lot of information which can be daunting to look at. I tried to find a nice infographic to explain what each number, value or color coded bars mean, but couldn’t find any. Hence I decided to make one myself over the Christmas break.