bottom is a graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.
The tool is inspired by gtop, gotop, and htop.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Graphical visualization widgets for:
- CPU usage over time, at an average and per-core level.
- RAM and swap usage over time.
- Network I/O usage over time.
- with support for zooming in/out the current time interval displayed.
- Widgets for displaying info about:
- Disk capacity/usage.
- Temperature sensors.
- Battery usage.
- A process widget for displaying, sorting, and searching info about processes, as well as support for:
- Kill signals.
- Tree mode.
- Customizable behaviour that can be controlled with command-line flags or a config file, such as:
- Custom and pre-built colour themes.
- Changing the default behaviour of some widgets.
- Changing the layout of widgets.
- Filtering out entries in disk and temperature widgets.
- An htop-inspired basic mode.
- Expansion, which focuses on just one widget.
- Cross-platform support for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/ClementTsang/bottom
Support:
Developer: Clement Tsang
License: MIT License

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