CLUSTER DESKTOP-DASHBOARD-MONITORING · 21 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-12-26

Desktop system monitoring dashboards

This cluster comprises desktop applications that monitor system resources, processes, services, and performance, often with real-time dashboards, gauges, and overlays. Entry counts were sparse from December 2020 through mid-2025, then rose to a steady one to three per month from December 2025 to June 2026. Pulse leads on traction with one star, while usb-dashboard and pc-system-monitor have zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

DEC 2020: 1FEB 2022: 1JAN 2023: 1JUN 2024: 1DEC 2024: 1DEC 2025: 2APR 2026: 1AUG 2026: 3SEP 2026: 9OCT 2026: 1
DEC 2020OCT 2026

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 5 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled

Operator · 9 hobby · 8 open source · 3 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01zapret-desktop1★13 dayslivehobbyWindows desktop app that launches and manages a DPI circumvention tool, offering strategy selection, process status, list editing, and log viewing.
  2. 02owndash1★6 days—Desktop app for creating customizable hardware-monitoring dashboards on Linux, with visual editing and support for dedicated sensor displays.
  3. 03task-observer0★22 days—hobbyDesktop app that monitors locally registered scripts and tasks, displaying progress, logs, resource trends, and run history in a card dashboard.
  4. 04Dashio0★9 days—hand-codedhobbyWindows dashboard app that groups running processes, installed apps, disk usage, and startup entries by application for management.
  5. 05virtual-workspace-monitor0★11 dayslivehand-codedhobbyDesktop app that monitors virtual desktop infrastructure and displays session and environment health in a dashboard.
  6. 06workstation-monitor0★1 moliveai-builthobbyDesktop dashboard that monitors a workstation's network, processes, disks, and power while offering one-click developer operations tools.
  7. 07cloudops-monitoring0★23 days—hobbyCloud infrastructure monitoring app that tracks CPU, memory, and disk utilization and flags abnormal resource usage through a live dashboard.
  8. 08sqltune-release0★24 days—hand-codedhobbyDesktop application that monitors SQL Server in real time and shows dashboards, top queries, locks, and alerts to database administrators.
  9. 09Pulse1★1 mo—Desktop app that displays real-time system resource usage with gauges, charts, and allows managing running processes.
  10. 10SysD Manager0★29 daysliveopen sourceDesktop application that lets users view, enable, disable, start, and stop systemd units and inspect their configuration and logs.
  11. 11monitor-leve0★1 mo—hobbyDesktop app that displays real-time system performance metrics in a customizable menu bar for Windows.
  12. 12PowerApp-public0★28 days—Desktop application that collects energy data, runs automated reporting workflows, and provides database-backed operational tools.
  13. 13pc-system-monitor0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyA desktop monitoring app that collects system metrics from multiple machines, stores reports via a FastAPI backend, and provides an admin dashboard.
  14. 14sys-dashboard0★5 moliveopen sourceDesktop application that provides a real-time dashboard for monitoring system resources.
  15. 15infodash0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop application that offers a customizable dashboard for monitoring system performance, processes, and resource usage on personal computers.
  16. 16CTL Dash0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop application for viewing, starting, stopping, and managing systemd system and user services and their logs on Linux.
  17. 17observatory0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application that monitors system resources and performance on the COSMIC desktop environment.
  18. 18gnome-system-monitor-linuxmint0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application that displays running processes and monitors overall system state.
  19. 19TkmViewer0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop viewer that visualizes system monitoring data from TaskMonitor, providing dashboards for processes and containers.
  20. 20simple-process-tracker0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application that tracks how long selected processes have been running on the system.