CLUSTER CPU-DISPLAYS-MEMORY · 10 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-02-01

Terminal resource monitoring tools

This cluster consists of terminal-based system monitors that display real-time resource usage such as CPU, memory, network, and sometimes GPU or process data. The dated history shows a single entry in 2022-05, a long gap until 2025-07, then a steady series of entries through 2026-07, with the most activity (three entries) in 2026-04. The traction leaders, cxtop-bin, rs-top, and tmux-mem-cpu-load, all report zero stars, so no product stands out as having meaningful user adoption.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAY 2022: 1JUL 2025: 1FEB 2026: 1APR 2026: 3MAY 2026: 1JUL 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1OCT 2026: 1
MAY 2022OCT 2026

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 10 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 1 commercial · 8 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 10 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01mifo0★14 days—hobbyTerminal system monitor for macOS that displays CPU, memory, disk, processes, and network usage in real time.
  2. 02cxtop-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal system monitor that displays real-time CPU, memory, and process usage, inspired by ntop and btop.
  3. 03rs-top0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal application that displays real-time CPU, memory, and network statistics from multiple remote systems without requiring an agent to be installed.
  4. 04tmux-mem-cpu-load0★3 moliveopen sourceSystem monitoring tool that displays real-time CPU, memory, and system load information for tmux terminal sessions.
  5. 05jtop0★4 moliveopen sourceLightweight terminal-based utility that monitors and displays real-time system resource usage such as CPU, memory, and network activity.
  6. 06vigil-tui0★6 moliveopen sourceTerminal app that displays real-time CPU, GPU, RAM, network, and process usage in a monitoring view.
  7. 07gmon0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal application that displays live CPU, memory, and system resource usage in real time across operating systems.
  8. 08chadtop0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal interface that displays real-time process and resource usage for system monitoring.
  9. 09System Monitor0★unknownlivecommercialDesktop utility that displays real-time CPU, RAM, and internet speed usage through live graphs for Linux systems.
  10. 10leafmon0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal application that displays real-time system resource usage such as CPU and memory.