# nicolargo/glances

Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows operating systems.

Repository: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/glances
Homepage: http://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: python, multi-platform, monitoring, system, terminal, web, restful, restful-api
Last push: 2026-08-26T14:06:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 95, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5386, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 32, "gap_med": 25, "n_releases_24m": 18}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 33447, forks 1796 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:58.317063+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: monitoring, cli, http-server, mcp
- domain: monitoring, self-hosted
- platform: windows, bsd, python, cross-platform, cli, self-hosted
- tags: system-monitoring, htop-alternative, curses, restful-api, web-ui, docker-monitoring, grafana, influxdb, devops, command-line, linux, macos, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- nicolargo/glances (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:58.317063+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 2026-08-29T16:28:18.565513+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:58.317063+00:00, sha d5189679933a)
  - homepage: http://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ (fetched 2026-08-29T07:48:39.131103+00:00, sha a2c84ff13789)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/glances/json (fetched 2026-08-29T07:48:39.140290+00:00, sha 32bd8b56eec7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.