Glances
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Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows operating systems. observed · 2026-09-23
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 88
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 25.5
- age_days: 5434
- days_rel: 80
- days_push: 28
- n_releases_24m: 17
Adoption not part of the score
33654 stars · 1818 forks observed · 2026-09-23
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-09-28, confidence 0.99
Glances is a cross‑platform system monitoring application written in Python. It provides a curses‑based terminal UI, a web UI and REST/XML‑RPC APIs for real‑time insight into CPU, memory, disk, network, containers and more.
Use cases
- monitor my server's CPU, memory and disk usage from the terminal
- view system metrics remotely via a web browser
- collect system statistics and export them to InfluxDB or CSV
- track Docker container resource consumption alongside host metrics
- integrate system health data into a Grafana dashboard
- use the REST API to pull system stats into custom scripts or monitoring tools
When to choose
- You need a lightweight, single‑binary tool that works on Linux, macOS, Windows and BSD.
- You want both a terminal UI and a web UI without installing separate software.
- You require built‑in support for container monitoring (Docker, Podman, LXC).
- You need an easy way to export metrics to time‑series databases or CSV.
When to avoid
- You require deep, long‑term historical storage and advanced alerting out of the box.
- You need a graphical desktop application with rich charts beyond the terminal/web UI.
- You prefer a compiled binary with no Python runtime dependency.
Facets
application · maturity active
monitoring cli http-server api-framework monitoring windows bsd cli cross-platform curses system-stats container-monitoring rest-api xml-rpc devops linux macos docker
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances · fetched 2026-09-23 · d5189679933a
- homepage: http://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ · fetched 2026-09-14 · a2c84ff13789
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/glances/json · fetched 2026-09-14 · 32bd8b56eec7
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| nicolargo/glances | main | 94 |
| nicolargo/glancesautoinstall | infra | 10 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="nicolargo/glances")
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