vladkens/macmon

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1834 stars · 74 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

macmon is a sudoless real-time performance monitor for Apple Silicon Macs (M1–M5) that reads CPU/GPU/ANE power, temperatures, frequencies, and memory stats via a private macOS API. It ships as an interactive TUI, a JSON pipe mode, a Prometheus metrics server, and a Rust library.

Use cases

• monitor cpu and gpu power usage on apple silicon mac without sudo
• view cpu temperature and ram usage in terminal
• export mac hardware metrics to prometheus and grafana
• pipe system metrics as json into scripts
• use a rust library to sample apple silicon hardware metrics
• track ane power consumption on m1 m2 m3 m4
• stress test and observe cpu frequency scaling

When to choose

• you want powermetrics-style data on Apple Silicon without root access
• you need a lightweight terminal-based system monitor for macOS
• you want to feed Mac hardware metrics into Prometheus/Grafana or scripts
• you're building a Rust app that needs Apple Silicon sensor readings

When to avoid

• you're on Intel Macs, Linux, or Windows — Apple Silicon only
• you need per-process resource usage rather than system-wide metrics
• you need a GUI dashboard rather than a TUI or HTTP endpoint

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

monitoring cli terminal-ui sdk developer-tools monitoring hardware cli rust apple-silicon tui prometheus-exporter system-monitor powermetrics rust-library no-sudo cpu-temperature gpu-monitoring command-line macos

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