bcicen/ctop

Health v2 · maintenance only

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17824 stars · 589 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

ctop is a top-like command-line interface for monitoring real-time metrics of multiple containers, with a condensed grid view and a single-container inspection view. It has built-in connectors for Docker and runC and is written in Go.

Use cases

• monitor docker container cpu and memory usage from the terminal
• view real-time container metrics in a top-like interface
• inspect a single container's resource usage
• filter and sort running containers by resource consumption
• watch container metrics on a remote server over ssh

When to choose

• you want a lightweight, interactive terminal dashboard for Docker or runC containers
• you need quick per-container CPU, memory, and network metrics without a full monitoring stack
• you prefer a htop-style TUI over web-based dashboards like Portainer

When to avoid

• you need historical metrics, alerting, or long-term storage - use Prometheus/Grafana instead
• you use container runtimes other than Docker or runC, since connectors are not yet available
• you need cluster-wide monitoring across many hosts

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

monitoring cli terminal-ui monitoring windows cli docker containers runc top-like metrics tui devops command-line linux macos

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