sysmon

System monitoring tool with visual bar charts. Displays CPU, RAM, SWAP, and DISK usage with auto-colored progress bars.

Features

• 📊 Visual bar charts - Beautiful progress bars with color coding
• 🎨 Auto color coding - Green (0-60%), Yellow (60-80%), Red (80-100%)
• 🔄 Real-time updates - Watch mode enabled by default
• 🎯 Focus modes - CPU, RAM, or Disk-specific views
• 📈 Top processes - Show resource-hungry processes
• ⌨️ Interactive sorting - Switch between CPU/Memory with c/m keys
• 🌍 Cross-platform - Works on macOS and Linux

Installation

Requires Magic Scripts:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/magic-scripts/ms/main/setup.sh | sh
ms install sysmon

Usage

Basic

# Show all metrics (default)
sysmon

# Focus on CPU
sysmon --cpu

# Focus on memory
sysmon --ram

# Focus on disk
sysmon --disk

Top Processes

# Show top 5 CPU processes
sysmon --cpu --top 5

# Show top 10 memory processes
sysmon --ram --top 10

# Interactive mode - press 'c' for CPU, 'm' for Memory
sysmon --top 5

Advanced

# Update every 2 seconds (default: 1s)
sysmon --interval 2

# Combine options
sysmon --cpu --top 5 --interval 2

Output Example

════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
           System Monitor v0.1.0
           Darwin 25.2.0 | 2026-02-21 15:30:45
════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════

CPU:          45% [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░]
Memory:       68% [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░]
SWAP:         12% [▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░]
Disk (/):     85% [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░]

Update: 1s | Ctrl+C to exit

Color Codes

• 🟢 Green (0-60%) - Normal usage
• 🟡 Yellow (60-80%) - High usage
• 🔴 Red (80-100%) - Critical usage

Platform Support

• ✅ macOS (Darwin)
• ✅ Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, etc.)
• ✅ POSIX shell compliant

License

MIT