pyre

Mac system monitoring CLI: temps, CPU, memory, disk, battery, GPU, power draw, live dashboard, packet monitor, process management, export, alerts, P2P live data streaming, web dashboard, SSH monitoring, micro-benchmarking, and Blender render tracking.

Note: things may not work as intended if your firewall settings do not allow inbound connections for this program.

You can skip init with Enter, but you may encounter some UI bugs. This is being worked on.

Features

• P2P live data streaming — send live system stats to another system over TCP with password authentication, TLS encryption, rate limiting, IP allow/deny lists, audit logging, and HMAC message signing
• Real-time system stats & per-core CPU — CPU brand, cores, frequency, load, per-core utilization mini-bars, and overall usage
• GPU monitoring — GPU model, VRAM, utilization, temperature, and process count (detailed mode)
• Power draw monitoring — CPU watts, GPU watts, and combined power draw via SMC/ioreg
• Memory monitoring & pressure — usage, swap, wired, compressed, purgeable, swapins/outs, and kernel VM pressure level
• Disk I/O throughput & space — read/write speed per volume and mounted volume space usage
• Battery & power health — level, power source, condition, charge cycles, max capacity, health trends, estimated time to empty, discharge rate, power draw in watts
• Packet monitor — network packet counts, packet rates, active TCP connections, top network processes
• Advanced network monitoring — real-time bandwidth rates (RX/TX bytes/sec), protocol breakdown (TCP/UDP), connection state analysis (ESTABLISHED, LISTENING, TIME_WAIT, CLOSE_WAIT), listening port detection, top remote hosts, per-process network I/O tracking, and GlassWire-style modern TUI panel with sparkline graphs
• Task list — running tasks/applications sorted by CPU with PID, user, memory, state, and runtime
• Thermal state — CPU temperature via pmset and powermetrics (sudo for detailed readings)
• Network — RX/TX bytes and per-second rates
• Top processes & search-as-you-type — live filtering, tree view, sorting by CPU/memory/PID, and process kill with protected PID confirmation guard
• Interactive live dashboard — full-screen TUI with keyboard-driven controls, mouse support, configurable panel layout, and tab-based panel navigation
• Snapshot export — JSON, CSV, TSV, HTML, or Markdown output formats
• Continuous CSV logging & Anomaly Digest — automatic per-tick logging and statistical spike analysis (pyre anomalies)
• Blender render tracking — automatically detects running Blender background renders, tracks elapsed time, frame progress, completion percentage, render engine, and blend file; fully loggable via CSV/JSON/Markdown exports
• Visual themes & custom themes — six built-in color themes plus user-defined JSON theme support in ~/.config/pyre/themes/
• Persistent configuration & Profiles — save themes and thresholds in ~/.config/pyre/config.json, plus atomic profile management (pyre profile)
• Alert system & webhooks — configurable threshold alerts with terminal bell, desktop notifications, webhook POST payload execution (--webhook-url), and custom shell command execution (--alert-cmd)
• System diagnostic tool (pyre doctor) — check permissions, SMC access, Gatekeeper, SIP status, XProtect definitions, and P2P reachability
• Security & Ecosystem inspectors — System Extensions inspector (pyre extensions), Homebrew health (pyre brew), and Time Machine backup status
• Accessible plain-text mode — --plain/--a11y mode for screen readers and ANSI-free logging
• Grafana Integration — ready-to-import Grafana dashboard template (grafana/pyre-dashboard.json)
• History & Snapshot Diff — query historical CSV log trends (pyre history) and compare snapshot files side-by-side (pyre diff)
• Multi-host fleet dashboard — stream and tile stats from multiple remote Macs (pyre fleet)
• Menu Bar & xbar integration — generate menu bar plugin script (pyre xbar) for continuous background status display
• Graph mode toggle — switch between sparkline and bar graph rendering in the live dashboard
• P2P dashboard panel — monitor P2P server status and peer events directly from the live dashboard
• Temperature unit toggle — switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit display in live mode
• Hardware & Displays overview — pyre info prints hardware, connected displays, and Time Machine status
• Remote SSH monitoring — pyre ssh <host> streams a remote Mac's live dashboard locally
• Web dashboard — pyre web serves an auto-refreshing HTML dashboard with real-time SSE stream on a local port
• Micro-benchmarking & Energy Cost — pyre bench <cmd> logs resource usage and estimates energy consumption/cost (kWh)
• Update checker — pyre update checks npm registry for new pyre-cli releases

Installation

npm

npm install -g pyre-cli

curl

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/somalip/pyre/main/install.sh | bash

Quick Start

pyre                           # Static snapshot, all system stats
pyre --detailed                # Include sensor / powermetrics detail
pyre --json                    # JSON output (also --csv, --tsv, --html, --md)
pyre --plain                   # Plain-text accessible output without ANSI noise

pyre live                      # Interactive live dashboard
pyre live --interval 3 --log   # Custom refresh interval + auto-logging
pyre live --alert-cpu 80 --alert-temp 85 --temp-unit f

pyre ui                        # Launch native macOS UI dashboard
pyre web                       # Serve auto-refreshing live web portal on localhost

pyre anomalies --since 7d      # Statistical resource spike digest from past CSV logs
pyre doctor                    # System diagnostics (Gatekeeper, SIP, XProtect, powermetrics)
pyre extensions                # System extensions inspector (systemextensionsctl)
pyre brew                      # Homebrew health summary & cellar size
pyre update                    # Check for pyre-cli updates
pyre profile save dev          # Save active configuration profile
pyre profile load dev          # Load configuration profile
pyre info                      # Concise hardware, display & Time Machine overview
pyre bench "make build"        # Benchmark command & estimate kWh energy cost
pyre benchmark                 # Run a 1-minute CPU benchmark calculating digits of PI

Options Reference

These options apply to both static snapshots and pyre live, except where noted.

| Option | Description | |---|---| | -j, --json | Output as JSON | | --html | Output as self-contained HTML | | --md | Output as Markdown | | -c, --csv | Output as CSV | | -t, --tsv | Output as TSV | | --plain / --a11y | Plain text output mode without ANSI colors or line-drawing characters | | --detailed | Include detailed system info and sensor readings | | --since <range> | Time range for anomaly digest (e.g. 1d, 7d, yesterday) | | --theme <name> | Theme for live mode (default, dracula, cyberpunk, monochrome, nord, gruvbox) | | --interval <seconds> | Refresh interval for live mode (default: 2) | | --once | Show a single static snapshot instead of live feed | | --out <file> | Write snapshot output to a file | | --export-dir <dir> | Directory for live-mode snapshot exports and logs (default: ./pyre-exports) | | --log | Start continuous CSV logging immediately when live mode starts | | --tree | Show process tree view instead of flat list | | --sort <key> | Sort processes by: cpu, mem, pid, user, command, state, threads, runtime | | --limit <n> | Max processes in snapshot (0 = all, default: 10) | | --alert-cpu <pct> | CPU usage alert threshold (default: 90) | | --alert-temp <c> | CPU temperature alert threshold in Celsius (default: 95) | | --temp-unit <unit> | Temperature display unit: c or f (default: c) | | --webhook-url <url> | URL to POST payload to when an alert threshold is triggered | | --alert-cmd <cmd> | Shell command to execute when an alert threshold is triggered | | --port <port> | Port number for web server mode (default: 3000) |

Commands

Static snapshot & diagnostics

| Command | Description | |---|---| | pyre | Show all system stats in a formatted table | | pyre --once | Show a single static snapshot (same as default without live) | | pyre --json | JSON output | | pyre --html | Self-contained HTML report | | pyre --md | Markdown tables | | pyre doctor | Run system diagnostics (permissions, Gatekeeper, SIP, XProtect, P2P network) | | pyre extensions | System Extensions inspector (systemextensionsctl list) | | pyre brew | Homebrew health panel (installed formulae, outdated count, Cellar disk size, doctor summary) | | pyre blender | Track active Blender background renders: PID, blend file, engine, frame progress, elapsed time, and completion status | | pyre update | Check npm registry for latest pyre-cli release | | pyre profile <save\|load\|list> [name] | Atomic configuration profile management (~/.config/pyre/profiles/) | | pyre config <show\|reset> | View or reset persistent configuration file (~/.config/pyre/config.json) | | pyre completions <zsh\|bash\|fish> | Generate shell auto-completion scripts |

Hardware overview & history

| Command | Description | |---|---| | pyre info | Concise hardware summary (CPU, memory pressure, GPU, battery, displays, Time Machine) | | pyre anomalies [--since N] | Compute z-score anomalies and print plain-language resource spike digest | | pyre history [--days N] | Graph historical resource trends from CSV logs over past N days | | pyre diff <file1.json> <file2.json> | Compare two saved snapshot files side-by-side |

Benchmarking & Menu Bar

| Command | Description | |---|---| | pyre bench <cmd> | Log CPU, memory, network, power draw, and estimate kWh energy cost during command execution | | pyre benchmark | Run a 1-minute CPU benchmark calculating digits of PI and score the system | | pyre xbar | Generate an xbar / SwiftBar menu bar plugin script for stats display |

Remote & Multi-host monitoring

| Command | Description | |---|---| | pyre ssh <host> | Stream live stats from a remote Mac over SSH | | pyre fleet <host1> [host2]... | Multi-host live dashboard monitoring multiple Macs simultaneously |

Live dashboard

| Command | Description | |---|---| | pyre live | Start the interactive live dashboard |

Web & Native dashboards

| Command | Description | |---|---| | pyre web | Serve an auto-refreshing live web portal with real-time SSE stats streaming on localhost (--port <port>) | | pyre ui | Launch the native macOS UI dashboard (wraps the web portal in a native window) |

P2P

| Command | Description | |---|---| | pyre server | Detect the local IP and print ready-to-paste commands for starting a P2P server and connecting a client on the same LAN (default port 9876, default password mysecret) | | pyre p2p server | Start a P2P server that streams live stats to authenticated peers | | pyre p2p connect | Connect to a P2P server and display live stats |

See P2P Live Data Streaming below for the full option set.

P2P Live Data Streaming

Send live system stats to another system over a TCP connection with password authentication. The server streams StatsData snapshots to authenticated peers at the configured interval. You can also start or stop the P2P server from the live dashboard by pressing r.

Server options

pyre p2p server --p2p-host 0.0.0.0 --p2p-port 9876 --p2p-password mysecret

| Option | Description | |---|---| | --p2p-host <host> | Bind address (default: 0.0.0.0) | | --p2p-port <port> | Port number (default: 9876) | | --p2p-password <password> | Password for authentication (required) | | --interval <seconds> | Data refresh interval (default: 2) | | --detailed | Include detailed sensor readings | | --p2p-cert <file> | TLS certificate file (PEM) for encrypted connections | | --p2p-key <file> | TLS private key file (PEM) for the server | | --p2p-ca <file> | TLS CA certificate file (PEM) — required by clients using --p2p-tls | | --p2p-rate-limit <n> | Max auth attempts per IP per minute (default: 5) | | --p2p-allow <ips> | Comma-separated list of allowed IPs (empty = all) | | --p2p-deny <ips> | Comma-separated list of denied IPs | | --p2p-audit-log <dir> | Directory for P2P audit logs | | --p2p-hmac-key <key> | HMAC key for message signing (default: derived from password) |

Client options

pyre p2p connect --p2p-host <server-ip> --p2p-port 9876 --p2p-password mysecret

| Option | Description | |---|---| | --p2p-host <host> | Server address (default: 127.0.0.1) | | --p2p-port <port> | Server port (default: 9876) | | --p2p-password <password> | Password for authentication (required) | | --p2p-tls | Enable TLS encryption for the connection | | --p2p-ca <file> | TLS CA certificate file (PEM) — required when using --p2p-tls | | --p2p-insecure | Skip TLS certificate verification (client only) | | --p2p-audit-log <dir> | Directory for P2P client audit logs | | --p2p-hmac-key <key> | HMAC key for message signing (must match server) |

Security features

• TLS encryption — pass --p2p-cert/--p2p-key/--p2p-ca on the server and --p2p-tls --p2p-ca on the client for encrypted connections.
• Rate limiting — --p2p-rate-limit <n> caps authentication attempts per IP per minute to deter brute-force attacks.
• IP allow/deny lists — --p2p-allow restricts connections to specific IPs; --p2p-deny blocks specific IPs while allowing all others.
• Audit logging — --p2p-audit-log <dir> logs connects, auth successes/failures, disconnects, rate-limit hits, and IP blocks.
• HMAC message signing — every message is signed with HMAC-SHA256. The key derives from the password by default, or set --p2p-hmac-key explicitly for rotation or interoperability (must match on both sides).

Same local network (LAN) setup

Both machines must be on the same local network (same Wi-Fi or wired subnet). The server listens on 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces) by default, so any device on the LAN can reach it as long as the port is open.

On the server machine, find its local IP address:

hostname -I
# or
ifconfig | grep "inet " | grep -v 127.0.0

Use that IP (e.g. 192.168.1.25) in the client command:

pyre p2p connect --p2p-host 192.168.1.25 --p2p-port 9876 --p2p-password mysecret

Troubleshooting

• If the client can't reach the server, confirm both machines are on the same subnet (ping the server IP from the client).
• Verify the port is open (no local firewall blocking TCP 9876).
• Never expose the server directly to the public internet; it's designed for LAN use only.

Protocol

Length-prefixed JSON over TCP, with HMAC-SHA256 signing on every message:

1. Client connects to the server.
2. Server sends a challenge message with a random nonce.
3. Client responds with an auth message containing the SHA-256 hash of password:nonce.
4. Server validates the hash and responds with auth-ok or auth-fail.
5. Once authenticated, the server streams data messages containing StatsData snapshots at the configured interval.
6. Both sides exchange ping/pong keepalives every 15 seconds.
7. Either side can send a disconnect message to close gracefully.

Server controls

While the server is running, type these on its stdin (or press Ctrl+C):

| Command | Action | |---|---| | status | Print the number of currently connected peers | | q / quit / exit | Shut down the server gracefully |

Client controls

While connected, the client displays live stats in a formatted table. Press Ctrl+C to disconnect. It reconnects automatically after 3 seconds if the connection drops.

Live Dashboard

Run with pyre live.

| Key | Action | |---|---| | q | Quit the dashboard | | p | Pause / resume the refresh cycle | | d | Toggle detailed sensor mode | | g | Show / hide sparkline graphs | | b | Cycle graph mode (sparkline ↔ bar) | | s | Cycle sort order (CPU → memory → PID → user → command → state → threads → runtime) | | f | Cycle export format (JSON → CSV → TSV → HTML → Markdown) | | T | Cycle temperature unit (Celsius ↔ Fahrenheit) | | e | Export a snapshot to the export directory | | l | Toggle continuous CSV logging | | c | Open the UI customizer | | / | Open process filter | | k | Open process kill (enter PID, then Enter to confirm) | | S | Open signal picker for kill (cycle SIGTERM → SIGKILL → SIGINT → SIGHUP → SIGSTOP → SIGCONT) | | t | Toggle process tree view | | r | Toggle P2P server (or enter P2P password input) | | + / - | Increase / decrease refresh interval by 1 second | | ← / → / Tab | Cycle to previous / next panel tab | | 1–9, 0 | Jump to panel by number (cpu, mem, gpu, power, battery, thermal, network, packets, tasks, disk) | | P | Toggle process panel | | C | Toggle containers panel | | B | Toggle Blender render tracker panel | | Esc | Close customizer or clear filter/kill input |

UI Customizer

Press c to open the customizer overlay. From there:

• Cycle through six built-in themes (Default, Dracula, Cyberpunk, Monochrome, Nord, Gruvbox) — ↑/↓ or j/k to navigate, Enter/Space to select
• Toggle individual panels (CPU, Memory, GPU, Power, Battery, Thermal, Network, Packets, Tasks, Disk, Processes, Containers, Blender) on or off
• Switch graph mode between sparkline and bar charts
• Toggle process tree view
• Toggle temperature unit between Celsius and Fahrenheit
• Toggle notifications on or off

Mouse support

• Click tab bar — click a panel tab (row 4) to jump directly to that panel
• Scroll — scroll through process lists in panels with many entries
• Enabled by default; disable with mouseEnabled = false in the customizer

Process Management

Available in the live dashboard (and partially in static snapshots via flags).

Sorting

Press s to cycle through sort modes, or use --sort <key> in static snapshot mode (default: cpu):

| Sort key | Description | |---|---| | cpu | Sort by CPU usage (descending) | | mem | Sort by memory usage (descending) | | pid | Sort by process ID | | user | Sort by username | | command | Sort by command name | | state | Sort by process state | | threads | Sort by thread count | | runtime | Sort by total runtime |

Filtering

Press / to open a process filter and type a substring to narrow the list. Press Esc to clear it.

Tree view

Press t to toggle between a flat process list and a tree view showing parent/child relationships. In static snapshot mode, use --tree.

Killing processes

Press k to enter kill mode: type the PID, then press Enter to send SIGTERM (default), or Esc to cancel.

Signal picker

Press S to open the signal picker. Cycle with ↑/↓ or j/k, then Enter to send the selected signal to the PID entered in kill mode:

| Signal | Description | |---|---| | SIGTERM | Graceful termination (default) | | SIGKILL | Force kill | | SIGINT | Interrupt (Ctrl+C equivalent) | | SIGHUP | Hangup | | SIGSTOP | Stop (pause) the process | | SIGCONT | Continue a stopped process |

Alerts & Notifications

The live dashboard monitors critical metrics and notifies you when thresholds are exceeded:

| Metric | Default threshold | Alert behavior | |---|---|---| | CPU usage | 90% | Terminal bell (\x07) + red status message for 5 seconds + desktop notification | | CPU temperature | 95°C | Terminal bell + red status message for 5 seconds + desktop notification |

Alerts fire once when a threshold is first crossed and reset when conditions clear. Thresholds are configurable via --alert-cpu and --alert-temp, or in the config file (cpuAlertPct and tempAlertC in ~/.config/pyre/config.json).

Themes

| Theme | Description | |---|---| | default | Muted greys and cyan accents; safe for any terminal | | dracula | The popular Dracula dark palette | | cyberpunk | High-contrast neon on black | | monochrome | White-only; useful for colour-blind users or terminals without 256-colour support | | nord | Arctic-inspired cool tones | | gruvbox | Retro warm palette |

Cycle themes with c in the customizer overlay, or set a default with --theme <name>.

Export Formats

Snapshot export

Triggered by the e key in live mode, or the --out flag. Written to the export directory (./pyre-exports by default):

pyre-2026-07-26T10-54-47-191Z.json
pyre-2026-07-26T10-54-52-306Z.csv
pyre-2026-07-26T10-54-52-306Z.html
pyre-2026-07-26T10-54-52-306Z.md

Format follows the current export format — cycle with f in live mode, or set via --json, --csv, --tsv, --html, --md in static mode.

Continuous CSV logging

Triggered by the l key in live mode, or the --log flag. Each tick appends a row to a timestamped file. Old logs are automatically rotated (max 20 files or 50 MB, files older than 7 days are pruned):

pyre-log-2026-07-26T10-54-47-191Z.csv

Row format:

timestamp,cpu_usage,mem_usage_percent,temp_c,net_rx_bytes,net_tx_bytes,net_rx_packets,net_tx_packets,connections,thermal_state

Requirements

• macOS 14+ (Sonoma or later)

• Node.js 18+

• Optional: sudo for powermetrics detailed temperatures in --detailed mode

  To enable password‑less access for powermetrics (required for accurate sensor readings), run:

  echo "$(whoami) ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/powermetrics" | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/pyre-powermetrics

  This adds a single sudoers entry granting pyre the ability to execute powermetrics without a password prompt. Remove it later with sudo rm /etc/sudoers.d/pyre-powermetrics.

Project Structure

pyre/
├── src/
│   ├── index.ts            # CLI entry point (commander definitions, main())
│   ├── anomaliesCmd.ts     # Resource spike & anomaly digest generator
│   ├── brewHealth.ts       # Homebrew health & cellar usage inspector
│   ├── doctor.ts           # System diagnostics (permissions, Gatekeeper, SIP, XProtect)
│   ├── extensions.ts       # System Extensions inspector (systemextensionsctl list)
│   ├── updateCheck.ts      # Passive and on-demand npm registry version check
│   ├── monitors/           # System metric collection (CPU, memory, disk, battery, thermal, network, packets, power, tasks)
│   │   ├── index.ts        # Public API: collectAll, collectPower, collectPackets, collectTasks
│   │   ├── types.ts        # TypeScript interfaces for all metric types
│   │   ├── smc.ts          # SMC sensor reading with caching
│   │   ├── collectors.ts   # Individual metric collectors, displays, Time Machine, and orchestrator
│   │   └── run.ts          # Shared shell-execution helper
│   ├── formatters/         # Output formatting and rendering
│   │   ├── index.ts        # Public API: formatTable, formatJson, formatCsv, formatTsv, formatGraphs
│   │   ├── output.ts       # JSON/CSV/TSV serialisation and sparkline graphs
│   │   ├── render.ts       # Dashboard table layout, cards, and panels
│   │   ├── themes.ts       # Six built-in colour themes
│   │   └── types.ts        # TableOptions, VisibleItems, ThemeName, and other public-facing type definitions
│   ├── live/               # Interactive live dashboard
│   │   ├── index.ts        # Public API: startLive, stopLive
│   │   ├── state.ts        # Shared mutable session state
│   │   ├── input.ts        # Keypress handling, signal picker, protected PID kill guards
│   │   ├── render.ts       # Screen rendering and alert checking
│   │   ├── export.ts       # Snapshot export and CSV logging
│   │   └── types.ts        # LiveOptions, ExportFormat, InputMode, SortMode
│   ├── p2p/                # P2P live data streaming (server + client)
│   │   ├── index.ts        # Public API: P2PServer, P2PClient
│   │   ├── types.ts        # P2P protocol type definitions
│   │   ├── protocol.ts     # Length-prefixed JSON message framing
│   │   ├── server.ts       # TCP server: auth, TLS, rate limiting, IP filtering, audit logging, HMAC signing, data streaming
│   │   └── client.ts       # TCP client that connects and displays live data
│   ├── state/              # Config & profile state management
│   │   └── config.ts       # Config file I/O & atomic profile save/load
│   ├── history.ts          # Rolling history buffer for sparkline data
│   ├── sparkline.ts        # ASCII sparkline rendering & plain-text mode
│   └── utils/              # Shared utility functions
├── dist/                   # Built output (esm)
├── grafana/                # Grafana dashboard JSON template
├── pyre-exports/           # Default directory for snapshot exports and logs
├── Formula/                # Homebrew formula
├── install.sh              # curl installation script
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
└── README.md

Development

Setup

git clone https://github.com/somalip/pyre.git
cd pyre
npm install

Scripts

| Script | Description | |---|---| | npm run build | Compile TypeScript to ESM via tsup, output to dist/ | | npm start | Run the built binary from dist/ | | npm run dev | Run directly via tsx (no build step) | | npm test | Verify the built binary responds to --help |

License

MIT