# rapidloop/rtop

rtop is an interactive, remote system monitoring tool based on SSH

Repository: https://github.com/rapidloop/rtop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rtop
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: monitoring, ssh, cli
Last push: 2022-06-06T14:35:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4134, "days_push": 1549, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2187, forks 155 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:23.808921+00:00)

## What it is
rtop is an interactive remote system monitoring tool that connects over SSH and displays vital metrics like CPU, disk, memory, and network usage. It requires no special software on the monitored host beyond an SSH server and credentials, and only works with Linux systems.

## Use cases
- monitor cpu memory disk and network on remote linux servers over ssh
- check system health of a remote machine without installing agents
- watch live metrics on a server i have ssh access to
- simple interactive server monitoring from my terminal
- inspect resource usage on remote hosts with just ssh credentials

## When to choose
- you need agentless monitoring of linux hosts you can ssh into
- you want a lightweight interactive terminal dashboard instead of a full monitoring stack
- you prefer zero configuration and no runtime dependencies

## When to avoid
- you need monitoring of non-linux systems
- you need historical metrics, alerting, or dashboards rather than live interactive views
- you need to monitor many hosts at scale with centralized collection

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, ssh, cli
- domain: monitoring
- platform: cross-platform, cli
- tags: remote-monitoring, system-metrics, go, devops, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- rapidloop/rtop (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:23.808921+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 2026-08-30T02:47:53.511829+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rapidloop/rtop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:23.808921+00:00, sha 3f8105ec7885)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.