Hardware Monitoring Tools for Mac

Grafana provides a powerful and elegant way to create, explore, and share dashboards and data with your team and the world.

Lightweight macOS utility offering real-time CPU, GPU, memory, disk, network, battery stats, sensor readings, fan control, Bluetooth and clock.

A command line diagnostic tool that explains why a process is running, not only that it exists. Supports cross-platform analysis, details origins, context, supervising sources, and risk signals.

Lightweight menu bar utility monitors macOS thermal pressure, displays real time CPU temperature, fan speed, and thermal state stats, with alerts and no admin rights required.

System monitor for Mac tracking CPU, GPU, network, sensors, disks, memory, and weather with menubar stats, notifications, privacy options, and custom views.

Netdata collects metrics per second and presents them in beautiful low-latency dashboards. It is designed to run on all of your physical and virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and edge/IoT devices, to monitor your systems, containers, and applications.

Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a large amount of monitoring information through a curses or Web based interface. The information dynamically adapts depending on the size of the user interface.

TraceBar puts a live traceroute in your macOS menubar. It continuously monitors the network path to any host, showing every hop’s latency, packet loss, and route changes in real time.

CPU Info provide main information about hardware and software of your device. You can get:

Lightweight menu bar monitor for macOS showing real-time download and upload speeds, Wi-Fi and latency stats, fully customizable appearance, and privacy focused.

UNIGINE benchmarks can be effectively used to determine the stability of a GPU under extremely stressful conditions, as well as check the cooling system's potential under maximum heat output.

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community.

Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.

Python port of bashtop.

Advanced utility for real-time HDD and SSD health analysis, early failure detection, health and performance ratings, temperature monitoring, alerts, and email reporting.

NetXMS is an enterprise grade multi-platform open source network management and monitoring system. It provides comprehensive event management, performance monitoring, alerting, reporting and graphing for all layers of IT infrastructure — from network devices to business...

Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

vtop is a graphical command-line tool that uses unicode braille to chart CPU and memory usage. It can be easily extended.

InfluxDB open source time series database, purpose-built by InfluxData for monitoring metrics and events, provides real-time visibility into stacks, sensors, and systems. Use InfluxDB to capture, analyze, and store millions of points per second, meet demanding SLA’s, and chart a...

Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible. So, Nagios configurations, plugins and addons can all be used with Icinga. Though Icinga retains all the existing features of its predecessor, it builds on them to add many long awaited patches and features requested by the...

Monitor Mac internal temperatures for potential overheating. Automatically or manually adjusts fan speeds to keep your Mac cool, ensuring optimal performance.

Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options.

Menu bar utility providing real-time CPU speed throttling, temperature, scheduler limits, and sensor graphs for Intel and Apple Silicon macOS hardware.

GeekTool is an application for Mac OS 10.6+. It lets you display various kinds of information on your desktop via 3 default plug-ins:

• File plugin to monitor MacOS X activity
• Shell mode to launch custom scripts or commands
• Image mode

MacCPUID is a developer tool used for displaying information collected from the microprocessor via the CPUID instruction. The CPUID instruction returns information in the general purpose registers such as manufacturer identification, a processor's family, model, and stepping...