socktop is a remote system monitor with a rich TUI, inspired by top/btop, that communicates with a lightweight remote agent over WebSockets.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Remote monitoring via WebSocket (JSON over WS).
- Optional WSS (TLS): agent auto‑generates a self‑signed cert on first run; client pins the cert via
--tls-ca/-t. - TUI built with ratatui.
- CPU:
- Overall sparkline + per-core mini bars.
- Accurate per-process CPU% (Linux /proc deltas), normalized to 0–100%.
- Memory/Swap gauges with human units.
- Disks: per-device usage.
- Network: per-interface throughput with sparklines and peak markers.
- Temperatures: CPU (optional).
- Top processes (top 50):
- PID, name, CPU%, memory, and memory%.
- Click-to-sort by CPU% or Mem (descending).
- Scrollbar and mouse/keyboard scrolling.
- Total process count shown in the header.
- Only top-level processes listed (threads hidden) — matches btop/top.
- Optional GPU metrics (can be disabled).
- Optional auth token for the agent.
Website: github.com/jasonwitty/socktop
Support:
Developer: Jason Witty
License: MIT License
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