SysWatch is a terminal-based system diagnostics application for Linux and macOS.
It brings together a broad set of single-host monitoring views in one text interface, helping users investigate performance, resource usage, services, power behaviour, storage, networking, and process activity without switching between separate command-line tools.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides twelve diagnostic tabs covering overview, CPU, memory, disks, filesystems, processes, GPU, power, services, network, timeline, and insights.
- Includes plain-English anomaly cards for issues such as memory pressure, runaway processes, high load, disk-full conditions, and swap thrashing.
- Records sessions and replays them later with timeline scrubbing across the whole application.
- Runs without sudo and clearly reports when platform restrictions prevent access to specific metrics.
- Offers keyboard navigation, process filtering, snapshots, configurable tick rate, themes, and graph style options.
Website: github.com/matthart1983/syswatch
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Developer: Matt Hartley
License: MIT License
SysWatch is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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