Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Ktop – a themed terminal system monitor with charts and OOM tracking
I built a terminal system monitor that fills a gap I kept hitting when running local LLMs: GPU usage and memory (for both NVidia and AMD) alongside CPU usage and memory, temps, upload, download and OOM kill tracking. All in one view with 50 colour themes. Consumes less cpu usage than glances (in my testing). One line install.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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2017 · 0xfee1dead.top · its alternatives →
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groundcover▲225Monitor K8s applications effortlessly, at scale
2022 · groundcover.com · its alternatives →
- 3H2
2016 · hisham.hm · its alternatives →
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mactop - Apple Silicon Monitor Top. Contribute to metaspartan/mactop development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The standard GPU utilization metric reported by nvidia-smi, nvtop, Weights & Biases, Amazon CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, and Azure Monitor is highly misleading. It reports the fraction of time that any kernel is running on the GPU, which means a GPU can report 100% utilization even if only a small portion of its compute capacity is actually being used. In practice, we've seen workloads with ~1–10% real compute throughput while dashboards show 100%. This becomes a problem when teams rely on that metric for capacity planning or optimization decisions, it can make underutilized systems…
Apr 2026 · systalyze.com · its alternatives →
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iStat Menus 5▲173An advanced Mac system monitor for your menubar
2014 · bjango.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN. We’re Jay and Vadim from Highlight.io (https://highlight.io). We’re building an open source [1] monitoring platform for web applications. Today we’re excited to be sharing a performance tool we’ve been working on, which helps you inspect the latency of code execution from the client to the server. As engineers at past startups, we often had to debug slow queries, poor load times, inconsistent errors, etc... While tools like Jaegar [2] helped us inspect server-side performance, we had no way to tie user events to the traces we were inspecting. In other words, although we had…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An eBPF tool monitoring a goroutine. Contribute to keisku/gmon development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MenuBar Stats▲173Advanced Mac system monitor right from the menu bar
2017 · seense.com · its alternatives →
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MacMonitor▲106Real-time Apple Silicon system monitor for your menu bar
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I made a Windows process monitor for app developers and advanced end users. I wanted a taskmgr system-level graph view per app. Windows procmon, while capable, has always been tedious to set up (esp. if not used often). That's pretty much the whole idea behind the app--to simplify app-level monitoring, to make it easy. I hope some of you find it useful!
2025 · pragmar.com · its alternatives →
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Tabs, splits, and tmux work fine until you have several projects open with logs, tests, and long-running shells. I kept rebuilding context instead of resuming work. Horizon puts shells on an infinite canvas. You can arrange them into workspaces and reopen later with layout, scrollback, and history intact. Built in 3 days with Claude/Codex, dogfooding the workflow as I went. Feedback and contributions welcome.
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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kwatch▲76Monitor & detect crashes in Kubernetes cluster instantly
2022 · kwatch.dev · its alternatives →
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Customizable terminal UI for monitoring weather information, application status, network latency, and more - merlinfuchs/blimp
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Display live system stats on Windows's taskbar
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A spatial TUI editor with drag-and-drop, safe apply with revert, workspace planning, and a hotplug daemon. All in two zero-dependency Go binaries.
Mar 2026 · paolino.me · its alternatives →
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1. The tool show network speed by process 2. Adapt dark mode 3. Use nettop's delta mode to make statistics more accurate
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Version v0.5.0 is now available, it is already working stably, although in terms of functionality and consumption of PC resources, I still have a lot to strive for. FSM shows information about processors, RAM, mounted file systems, some information from DMI, etc.
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Check out our new project to add some insight into OOM kill events for Go programs. Source code: https://github.com/parca-dev/oomprof/ Description of how it was put together: https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/08/13/oomprof
2021 · polarsignals.com · its alternatives →
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An advanced Mac System monitor for your menubar
2017 · bjango.com · its alternatives →
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