Flow is a terminal dashboard focused on real-time network throughput.
It provides a clean, responsive view of download and upload speeds without the additional system metrics found in general-purpose system monitors.
The interface adapts to the available terminal dimensions and offers multiple display modes ranging from a full dashboard to single-line output suitable for status bars.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Real-time download and upload throughput.
- Live latency indicator.
- Network processes panel showing active processes sorted by connection count.
- Braille-grid waveform rendering at 30 frames per second.
- Four responsive display modes.
- Automatic unit scaling from B/s to GB/s.
- Session peak tracking and daily traffic totals.
- Directional indicators show traffic trends.
- Eight built-in themes.
- Supports displaying throughput in bits or bytes per second.
- Interactive adjustment of sampling and refresh intervals.
- JSON and plain-text output modes for scripts.
- Optional TOML configuration.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/programmersd21/flow
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Developer: programmersd21
License: MIT License
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