# XuehaiPan/nvitop

An interactive NVIDIA-GPU process viewer and beyond, the one-stop solution for GPU process management.

Repository: https://github.com/XuehaiPan/nvitop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nvitop
Homepage: https://nvitop.readthedocs.io
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: nvidia, nvidia-smi, monitoring-tool, gpu-monitoring, curses, console, gpu, top, cuda, process-monitoring, resource-monitor, nvml, command-line-tool, monitoring, htop, grafana, grafana-dashboard, prometheus, prometheus-exporter
Last push: 2026-07-27T05:01:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 90/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 80, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2046, "days_push": 37, "days_rel": 54, "gap_med": 50, "n_releases_24m": 12}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7123, forks 243 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:56.050562+00:00)

## What it is
nvitop is an interactive NVIDIA GPU process viewer and monitoring tool built on NVML, offering a richer alternative to nvidia-smi with an htop-like terminal interface. It also includes a Prometheus exporter and Grafana dashboard for GPU monitoring.

## Use cases
- monitor gpu usage in terminal
- see which processes are using my nvidia gpu
- kill a stuck gpu process
- interactive alternative to nvidia-smi
- export gpu metrics to prometheus and grafana
- monitor cuda memory usage on a shared gpu server

## When to choose
- you want an interactive, htop-style view of NVIDIA GPU processes
- you need to identify and manage processes consuming GPU memory
- you want GPU metrics exported to Prometheus/Grafana

## When to avoid
- you need monitoring of non-NVIDIA GPUs (AMD, Intel)
- you only need a one-off GPU status query without interactivity

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, cli, terminal-ui
- domain: developer-tools, gpu-computing, monitoring
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: nvidia-smi, nvml, gpu-process-viewer, cuda, htop-like, prometheus-exporter, grafana-dashboard, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- XuehaiPan/nvitop (main) score 90

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:56.050562+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 2026-08-29T17:40:05.007635+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/XuehaiPan/nvitop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:56.050562+00:00, sha d32620e54804)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/nvitop/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:36:07.991019+00:00, sha 1c00d8b4153e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.