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Stop Using Top! Try sysview – The Minimal Resource Monitor I Built (Open Source)
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Stop Using Top! Try sysview – The Minimal Resource Monitor I Built (Open Source)

Tired of bloated monitoring tools or staring at endless lines in top/htop? I built sysview – a blazing fast, lightweight system resource monitor that shows you exactly what you need (CPU, RAM, disk, network) in a clean terminal UI. No clutter, no fuss, just instant visibility.

https://preview.redd.it/is8idx6hyxtg1.png?width=1394&format=png&auto=webp&s=8f665bd3a3e0c1538ced5604dee2a10e894ab126

Why sysview beats the usual suspects:

  • 🚀 Minimal dependencies – install in seconds
  • ⚡ Real-time stats for CPU, memory, disk, and network
  • 🖥️ Perfect for SSH sessions and remote work
  • 👀 Designed for SREs who want actionable info, not noise

If you’re ready to ditch the old tools and see your system’s health at a glance, check out sysview! I’m actively maintaining it and would love your feedback or contributions.

Let me know what you think, or if you have feature requests – let’s make sysview the go-to tool for SREs!

Features

  • Cross-platform: Works on macOS and Linux
  • Color-coded: Green (good), Yellow (warning), Red (critical)
  • Progress bars: Visual representation of usage
  • Process tree: Hierarchical view of processes
  • Git integration: Status, branches, commits, remotes
  • Interactive: Real-time monitoring mode
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u/UnitedYak6161 — 22 hours ago
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Built a system monitoring CLI tool. Get ports, memory, CPU, disk, processes and git info in nice colored tables.

npm install -g u/12britz/sysview

Wrote this for myself. Shows ports, memory, CPU, disk, processes and git info in nice colored tables.

>$ sysview memory

>████████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 25.6%

>$ sysview cpu

>│ CORE 0 │ ███████████████░░░░ 38% │

Features:

  • - Ports, memory, CPU, disk usage
  • - Process list (sort by CPU or memory)
  • - Process tree view
  • - Git status, branches, commits, remotes
  • - Kill by PID or port
  • - Real-time watch mode

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@12britz/sysview

GitHub: https://github.com/12britz/sysview

u/UnitedYak6161 — 3 days ago

Built a system monitoring CLI tool - sysview

Got tired of running separate commands to check ports, memory, CPU and processes. Built this to get everything in one place with nice formatting.

What it does:

  • - Shows listening ports with process info
  • - Memory usage with visual bars
  • - Per-core CPU usage
  • - Disk usage
  • - Process list (sort by CPU or memory)
  • - Process tree view
  • - Git status, branches, commits
  • - Kill processes by PID or port
  • - Real-time watch mode

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npm install -g @12britz/sysview

GitHub: https://github.com/12britz/sysview

Would love feedback on what else to add.

https://reddit.com/link/1se0l9c/video/k4run7hdzktg1/player

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u/UnitedYak6161 — 3 days ago