# Jafaral/bmon

bandwidth monitor and rate estimator

Repository: https://github.com/Jafaral/bmon
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bmon
Homepage: http://jafaral.github.io/bmon/
Language: C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: monitoring, network-analysis, network-monitoring, network, networking
Last push: 2026-08-24T15:24:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4807, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1384, forks 112 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:34.708201+00:00)

## What it is
bmon is a command-line bandwidth monitor and rate estimator that captures network interface statistics and displays them visually. It offers an interactive curses interface plus programmable text output for scripting.

## Use cases
- monitor network bandwidth usage per interface
- estimate real-time network traffic rates
- debug network statistics from the terminal
- script network stats collection with text output
- watch interface RX/TX rates live

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight terminal-based bandwidth monitor on Linux or macOS
- you want scriptable text output of network statistics
- you prefer an interactive curses UI without a GUI

## When to avoid
- you need historical graphing or long-term metrics storage
- you want a graphical desktop network monitor
- you need per-application bandwidth attribution

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, networking, terminal-ui
- domain: networking, monitoring, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: bandwidth-monitor, network-statistics, curses, rate-estimator, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- Jafaral/bmon (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:34.708201+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 2026-08-30T04:39:58.206820+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Jafaral/bmon (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:34.708201+00:00, sha 79284d69f523)
  - homepage: http://jafaral.github.io/bmon/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:55:32.342503+00:00, sha 08e47c5fb1d2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.