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shirou/gopsutil

psutil for golang observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/shirou/gopsutil · Go · NOASSERTION (other) 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: 30.0
  • age_days: 4520
  • days_rel: 32
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 23

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

11902 stars · 1683 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

gopsutil is a Go port of Python's psutil library for retrieving system information such as CPU, memory, disk, network, and process metrics. It is implemented without cgo by porting C structs to Go, and supports Linux, Windows, macOS, BSD variants, and Solaris.

Use cases

  • get cpu and memory usage in a go program
  • monitor system processes from go
  • collect disk and network stats for a monitoring agent
  • build a system metrics exporter in golang
  • read host information without cgo
  • query virtual memory usage cross-platform

When to choose

  • you need psutil-like system metrics in a Go application
  • you want a pure-Go solution with no cgo dependency
  • you need cross-platform support including Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD
  • you are building monitoring agents or exporters

When to avoid

  • you need psutil in Python rather than Go
  • you need metrics on an unsupported architecture
  • you need deep low-level kernel instrumentation beyond psutil's scope

Facets

library · maturity stable

monitoring developer-tools developer-tools monitoring operating-systems windows bsd go cross-platform psutil system-information cgo-free process-monitoring hardware-metrics linux macos

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