nicolargo/glances
Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows operating systems. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
98/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 95
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 25
- age_days: 5386
- days_rel: 32
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 18
Adoption not part of the score
33447 stars · 1796 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Glances is a cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python that displays real-time stats for CPU, memory, disk, network, processes, sensors, and containers in a terminal dashboard. It also offers a web UI, RESTful/XML-RPC APIs, client/server remote monitoring, stats export to databases, and a built-in MCP server for AI assistants.
Use cases
- monitor cpu memory and disk usage in the terminal
- htop alternative for linux and windows
- monitor docker containers from the command line
- remotely monitor a server via web interface
- export system stats to influxdb or grafana
- watch system temperatures and fan speeds
- query system metrics from an AI assistant via MCP
When to choose
- you need a cross-platform top/htop alternative with more metrics
- you want both terminal and web-based monitoring from one tool
- you need to export system stats to time-series databases or Grafana
- you want remote monitoring via API or client/server mode
When to avoid
- you need deep application-level APM or distributed tracing
- you want long-term historical dashboards without an external database
- you need a GUI desktop monitoring app
Facets
cli-tool · maturity stable
monitoring cli http-server mcp monitoring self-hosted windows bsd python cross-platform cli self-hosted system-monitoring htop-alternative curses restful-api web-ui docker-monitoring grafana influxdb devops command-line linux macos web-server docker
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances · fetched 2026-08-28 · d5189679933a
- homepage: http://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · a2c84ff13789
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/glances/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 32bd8b56eec7
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| nicolargo/glances | main | 98 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="nicolargo/glances")
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