jfernandez/bpftop

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2702 stars · 129 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

bpftop is a top-like terminal tool that provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs on Linux, showing average runtime, events per second, and estimated CPU utilization per program. It minimizes overhead by enabling kernel performance statistics only while the tool is active and includes interactive filtering, sorting, and time-series graphs.

Use cases

• monitor cpu usage of running ebpf programs
• find which bpf programs are consuming the most cpu
• view events per second for loaded ebpf programs
• debug performance of ebpf programs in real time
• plot ebpf program runtime over time
• list processes holding references to ebpf programs

When to choose

• you need a top-style interactive view of eBPF program performance on Linux
• you want low-overhead stats collection that only runs while monitoring
• you need time-series graphs and filtering for eBPF programs
• you're on kernel 5.8+ or need procfs fallback for older kernels

When to avoid

• you're not on Linux or lack root/CAP_BPF privileges
• you need non-interactive scripted metrics collection rather than a TUI
• you need to profile non-eBPF workloads

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

monitoring cli developer-tools developer-tools monitoring operating-systems performance cli ebpf bpf top-like terminal-ui performance-profiling kernel linux

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