Tray Monitor

Tray-Monitor is an open-source, lightweight system monitoring utility designed to display real-time hardware metrics directly in the system tray. It provides at-a-glance insights into critical system resources—including CPU usage, memory (RAM) consumption, disk activity, network throughput, and hardware temperatures—without cluttering the desktop or consuming significant system resources.

Built with cross-platform compatibility in mind, Tray-Monitor runs seamlessly on Windows and Linux, making it ideal for users who manage multiple operating systems. The application features a clean, formal interface style with customizable visual elements such as color schemes and metric formatting, aligning with user preferences for both functionality and aesthetics.

As an open-source project typically released under a permissive license (such as MIT or GPL), Tray-Monitor welcomes community contributions and transparency. It integrates with standard hardware sensors (e.g., via lm-sensors on Linux or WMI on Windows) to deliver accurate telemetry, and supports background operation with minimal performance overhead.

Whether you're a system administrator, developer, or power user seeking reliable, always-visible system diagnostics, Tray-Monitor offers a privacy-respecting, ad-free, and dependency-light solution for continuous hardware monitoring.