tui-sysmon

Real-time system monitor dashboard in your terminal

Beautiful terminal-based system monitoring dashboard showing CPU, RAM, Network, Disk usage and top processes.

Features

• 📊 CPU Usage - Real-time CPU load with per-core support and history graph
• 💾 RAM Usage - Memory usage gauge with history sparkline
• 🌐 Network - Upload/Download speed chart
• 💿 Disk Usage - Visual disk space usage per drive
• 📋 Top Processes - Table of top processes by CPU/RAM
• ℹ️ System Info - OS, CPU, cores, uptime

Installation

Global (recommended)

npm install -g tui-sysmon

Without installation

npx tui-sysmon

Local project

npm install tui-sysmon

Usage

If installed globally:

sysmon

Or via npm script:

npx tui-sysmon

Controls

| Key | Action | |-----|--------| | q / Esc / Ctrl+C | Exit |

Dashboard Layout

┌───────── CPU ─────────┬───────── RAM ─────────┐
│      [==== 72% ====]  │      [==== 45% ====]  │
├───────── History ─────┴───────── History ──────┤
│  ▁▃▅▇▆▄▂▁▃▅▇█▆▄▂     │  ▂▄▆▅▃▁▂▄▆▅▃▁▂▄▆     │
├─────── Network ───────┬──────── Disk ──────────┤
│    ╱╲    ╱╲           │  C:\  [████░░] 65%    │
│   ╱  ╲  ╱  ╲          │  D:\  [██░░░░] 32%    │
│  ╱    ╲╱    ╲         │  E:\  [██████] 89%    │
├──── System Info ──────┬──── Top Processes ─────┤
│  OS: Windows 11       │  PID  Name     CPU RAM │
│  CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X   │  1234 chrome   12% 2G │
│  Cores: 16            │  5678 node      8% 500M│
│  Uptime: 3d 14h 22m   │  9012 code      5% 800M│
└───────────────────────┴────────────────────────┘

Requirements

• Node.js >= 14.0.0
• Works on Windows, Linux, macOS

Development

# Clone and run
git clone <repo-url>
cd tui-sysmon
npm install
npm start

Tech Stack

• blessed - Terminal UI framework
• blessed-contrib - Terminal widgets (charts, gauges, tables)
• systeminformation - System metrics library

License

MIT