# bcicen/ctop

Top-like interface for container metrics

Repository: https://github.com/bcicen/ctop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ctop
Homepage: https://ctop.sh
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: docker, containers, monitoring, command-line, commandline, top, runc
Last push: 2024-07-08T11:15:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3537, "days_push": 786, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 17824, forks 589 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:20.454360+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, cli, terminal-ui
- domain: monitoring
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: docker, containers, runc, top-like, metrics, tui, devops, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- bcicen/ctop (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:20.454360+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 2026-08-29T17:02:26.773974+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bcicen/ctop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:20.454360+00:00, sha 18e9aa52b1cf)
  - homepage: https://ctop.sh (fetched 2026-08-29T08:00:28.463354+00:00, sha 2ce690acb115)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.