htop-dev/htop
htop - an interactive process viewer observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 86
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 31
- age_days: 2207
- days_rel: 17
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 6
Adoption not part of the score
8288 stars · 629 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
htop is a cross-platform interactive process viewer for the terminal, written in C and requiring ncurses. It lets users scroll, sort, filter, and manage processes (kill, renice) with live system-wide metrics like CPU, memory, load average, and swap usage.
Use cases
- monitor cpu and memory usage per process in the terminal
- find and kill a runaway process without typing its PID
- view processes in a tree view and sort by resource consumption
- filter or search running processes interactively
- check load average and swap usage at a glance
- renice processes to adjust priority
When to choose
- you need an interactive, user-friendly alternative to top in a terminal
- you administer Linux, BSD, macOS, or Solaris systems over SSH
- you want configurable meters, sorting, and filtering without a GUI
When to avoid
- you need remote monitoring with dashboards and alerting (use Prometheus/Grafana)
- you need point-in-time scriptable output (use ps or top in batch mode)
- you need GPU or container-level metrics beyond what htop exposes
Facets
application · maturity stable
monitoring developer-tools terminal-ui developer-tools operating-systems bsd cli cross-platform process-viewer system-monitor ncurses task-manager c command-line linux macos
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/htop-dev/htop · fetched 2026-08-28 · 1f99b02a50bd
- homepage: https://htop.dev/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · daab98263afc
- site_page: https://htop.dev/faq.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 53df79a2ad4c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| htop-dev/htop | main | 95 |
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