linux - is there a more advanced version of top?
Solution 1:
There are several ones
htop
atop
nmon
Also Conky, which is highly configurable if you are running X based GUI, and procexp, which is also gui.
Depending on your specifc usage, you can use top in scripts. See this question
Solution 2:
You want something more like nagios/cacti that can show data over time. nagios for raw numbers and cacti for graphs.