# hyperic/sigar

System Information Gatherer And Reporter

Repository: https://github.com/hyperic/sigar
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sigar
Homepage: http://sigar.hyperic.com/
Language: C
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-12-20T06:44:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6417, "days_push": 987, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1548, forks 497 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:01.857663+00:00)

## What it is
SIGAR (System Information Gatherer And Reporter) is a cross-platform C library for collecting system information such as CPU, memory, disk, network interfaces, and process details. It provides bindings for use from languages like Java, Python, and Ruby.

## Use cases
- get cpu and memory usage from a cross-platform app
- collect network interface stats in a monitoring agent
- query disk and filesystem information programmatically
- gather system metrics for a server dashboard
- inspect running processes and their resource usage

## When to choose
- you need a mature native library for system metrics across Linux, macOS, and Windows
- you want language bindings on top of a single C core
- you are building a monitoring agent or system inventory tool

## When to avoid
- you need actively developed features or modern platform support
- you prefer a pure-language solution without native dependencies
- you only target a single OS and can use its native APIs

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, operating-systems, monitoring
- platform: windows, cross-platform, c
- tags: system-information, hardware-info, cross-platform, native-library, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- hyperic/sigar (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:01.857663+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 2026-08-30T04:30:25.784839+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hyperic/sigar (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:01.857663+00:00, sha 9e36c1431b9b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.