# aristocratos/bashtop

Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

Repository: https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bashtop
Language: Shell
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-08-21T03:58:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2349, "days_push": 1108, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11119, forks 555 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:46.144384+00:00)

## What it is
Bashtop is a terminal-based resource monitor written in Bash that displays usage and stats for CPU, memory, disks, network, and processes. It features a game-inspired menu system, process filtering and signaling, and theme support, and has since been superseded by the C++ version btop++.

## Use cases
- monitor cpu and memory usage in the terminal
- view disk and network usage stats from the command line
- kill or signal a running process from a terminal ui
- filter and sort processes interactively
- find an htop alternative with a nicer interface
- watch network traffic with auto-scaling graphs

## When to choose
- you want a full-featured resource monitor on Linux, macOS, or FreeBSD without installing compiled dependencies
- you prefer a rich terminal UI with menus, themes, and process management
- you only have Bash 4.4+ available

## When to avoid
- you want the actively developed version - use btop++ instead
- you need monitoring on Windows
- you need very low overhead, since a Bash-based monitor is heavier than native tools

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, terminal-ui, developer-tools
- domain: monitoring, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: system-monitor, process-manager, bash, htop-alternative, resource-monitor, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- aristocratos/bashtop (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:46.144384+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:16:47.113326+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:46.144384+00:00, sha d4b4bb3d1e1b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.