gotop

Start gotop

$ gotop

$ gotop -c [monokai]

$ gotop -p

$ gotop -m

$ gotop -b

$ gotop -r [500ms]

$ gotop --no-cpu

$ gotop -i [eth0]

gotop [options]

gotop is a terminal-based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop. It displays CPU, memory, disk, network, and process information with ASCII graphs in real-time widget panels.
Color schemes like monokai, solarized, and vice change the appearance. Custom layouts with -l allow rearranging and resizing widgets using YAML format. Process sorting supports CPU, memory, and PID columns with filtering and kill capabilities.

-c, --color scheme

Color scheme: default, monokai, solarized, vice, etc.

Show each CPU core separately.

Show average CPU usage.

Minimal terminal UI.

Show battery widget.

Update interval. Default: 1s.

Network interface filter.

Custom layout file.

Disable CPU widget.

Disable disk widget.

Disable memory widget.

Disable network widget.

Display version information.

Display help information.

~/.config/gotop/layout

Custom layout file defining widget placement in YAML format.

Custom color scheme definitions.

q, Ctrl+c

Quit.

Move to next widget.

Scroll process list.

Go to top/bottom of list.

Kill selected process.

Filter processes.

Toggle help.

Sort by CPU.

Sort by memory.

Sort by PID.

GPU monitoring not available in the maintained fork. Some metrics may be platform-specific. Battery widget requires supported hardware. High update rates increase CPU usage.

gotop was originally created by Caleb Bassi (cjbassi) in 2018 as a Go rewrite of gtop. The original project was archived in 2020. A community fork maintained by xxxserxxx continues development with additional features and fixes. gotop brought the visual monitor style to Go with cross-platform support.

htop(1), btm(1), gtop(1), zenith(1)