Glances monitors system activity and is available for GNU/Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows.
Glances
Glances monitors CPU, memory, processes, network, disk activity, sensors, and containers across platforms.
About Glances
Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python. It runs on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows. It installs from PyPI in minimal and full variants. The terminal display shows live system statistics, and a built-in Web UI allows monitoring from another device when no terminal is at hand.
Pricing is not clearly stated.
Key features
- Monitor CPU, memory, load and process list
- Track network interfaces, disk I/O and filesystems
- Monitor Docker and Podman containers
- Report sensors, alerts, system info and uptime
- Show quicklook view of CPU, memory and load
- Export statistics to CSV, InfluxDB, Cassandra, OpenTSDB, StatsD, ElasticSearch and RabbitMQ
- Provide XML-RPC server and RESTful JSON API for other client software
- Provide dedicated Grafana dashboard
Glances at a glance
- Website
- nicolargo.github.io/glances
- Category
- Software & Utilities › Hardware & Diagnostics
- Type
- App
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Platforms
- Linux, macOS, Web, Windows
- Details verified
- Oct 22, 2026 · Official source
- Open source
- Not stated
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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