Activity Monitor
Activity Monitor displays information about all the processes running on your Mac, including CPU, disk, memory, and network usage. You can see exactly how your computer’s resources are being used via a searchable table, helpful graphs, or even directly in the Dock icon.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
Features
- Process Monitoring
Tags
- Memory usage
- process-list
Activity Monitor News & Activities
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Activity Monitor information
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Apple Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
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- English
What is Activity Monitor?
Activity Monitor displays information about all the processes running on your Mac, including CPU, disk, memory, and network usage. You can see exactly how your computer’s resources are being used via a searchable table, helpful graphs, or even directly in the Dock icon. You can view the processes organized in different groupings, quickly search for processes, and quit processes. Activity Monitor also makes it easy to see how your memory is being used and how much memory is available, as well as disk activity and data transferred over the network.
Comments and Reviews
Apple's "Activity Monitor" is a pitiful attempt by Apple to provide a process manager for macOS.
If you a familiar with the built-in Windows tools, "Activity Monitor" is more of a "Resource Monitor" equivalent, than a "Task Manager" equivalent. Though the Windows "Resource Monitor" is a far superior tool in that can show more detailed information, has more features and the interface has arguably a better usability experience than Apple's "Activity Monitor".
It is disappointing that "Activity Monitor" is the best Apple could come up with. Even if Apple was lacking inspiration for designing an activity/process/task monitor/manager, the Linux world has some amazing tools that could be ported to macOS with minimal effort. Apple could have a tool that is on par, or even something that surpasses what is built-in to Windows, but instead they have tool that is nearly useless.
The layout at first glance looks useful, having tabs for CPU, Disk... but upon use you find out that each tab is just a different view of essentially the same columns.
The viewable information is limited, missing details that I expect to find in even the most basic tools of this type, and I often find it to be useless when troubleshooting performance issues.