# btop

A monitor of resources

Repository: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/btop
Language: C++
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T19:36:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 89/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 69, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1945, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 124, "gap_med": 77, "n_releases_24m": 8}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 34249, forks 1132 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:00.455221+00:00)

## What it is
btop++ is a terminal-based system resource monitor written in C++ that displays CPU, memory, disk, network, processes, and GPU usage with a rich interactive UI. It is a modern successor to bashtop and bpytop, running on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows.

## Use cases
- monitor cpu and memory usage in the terminal
- view running processes and kill them
- track network and disk io in real time
- monitor gpu usage from the command line
- find what is consuming system resources
- a better htop alternative with graphs

## When to choose
- you want a fast, visually rich terminal resource monitor
- you need cross-platform support including BSD and Windows
- you want GPU monitoring and mouse support in a TUI

## When to avoid
- you need remote multi-host monitoring dashboards
- you prefer a web-based or GUI monitoring solution
- you need historical metrics collection and alerting

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, terminal-ui, developer-tools
- domain: monitoring, developer-tools
- platform: windows, bsd, cli, cross-platform
- tags: system-monitor, resource-monitor, htop-alternative, gpu-monitoring, process-viewer, c-plus-plus, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- aristocratos/btop (main) score 89
- aristocratos/btop4win (mirror) score 47

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:00.455221+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 2026-08-29T16:27:42.765957+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:00.455221+00:00, sha 56978f1b89cd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.