Perfmon โ€“ Consolidate your favorite CLI monitoring tools into a single TUI

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Traditional performance monitors often overwhelm users with information or lack the flexibility to show exactly what you need. Perfmon solves this by providing: Consolidation: View output from multiple diagnostic tools (like top, vmstat, netstat) in one place. Focus: A clean, tabbed interface lets you switch between different metrics without terminal clutter. Visibility: Real-time sparklines provide an immediate "at-a-glance" health check of your system's core resources. Flexibility: Don't like the defaults? Bring your own shell commands via a simple TOML file. ๐Ÿš€ Blazing Fast: Written in Go with minimal CPU and memory overhead. ๐Ÿ“‚ Tabbed Navigation: Organize your monitoring tools into logical, navigable views. ๐Ÿ“ˆ Live Sparklines: Visual summaries for Load, CPU, Memory, and Network. ๐ŸŽจ Adaptive Themes: Seamlessly toggle between Light and Dark modes. โš™๏ธ Deeply Configurable: Custom commands, refresh intervals, and environment-specific settings. ๐Ÿง Cross-Platform: Intelligent defaults for both Linux and macOS. Download the latest pre-compiled binaries from the Releases page. go install github.com/sumant1122/Perfmon@latest git clone https://github.com/sumant1122/Perfmon.git cd Perfmon make build # Binary will be in the project root Simply run the command to start monitoring with default system tools: Key Action Tab / Shift+Tab Next / Previous Tab j / k (or โ†“/โ†‘) Scroll through command output t Toggle Light/Dark theme v Display version information q / Esc / Ctrl+C Exit Perfmon Perfmon is designed to be personalized. It looks for perfmon.toml in: $PERFMON_CONFIG ~/.config/perfmon/config.toml Current working directory # Interval for updating the sparklines and default tabs global_refresh_interval = "5s" [[tab]] title = "Process Explorer" cmd = ["top", "-b", "-n", "1"] refresh_interval = "2s" # Specific interval for this tab [[tab]] title = "Network Connections" cmd = ["ss", "-tulpn"] We utilize a simple Makefile for a streamlined development experience: make run: Start the appli...

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