macmon
Sudoless performance monitoring for Apple Silicon processors
TLDR
Launch the system monitor
$ macmon
Output metrics as JSON$ macmon pipe
Set update interval in milliseconds$ macmon -i [ms]
SYNOPSIS
macmon [command] [options]
DESCRIPTION
macmon is a sudoless performance monitoring tool for Apple Silicon processors. It displays real-time CPU, GPU, and Apple Neural Engine (ANE) power usage, CPU utilization per cluster, RAM/Swap usage, temperature, and historical charts with average and max values.
It uses an undocumented Apple API (the same used by powermetrics) to access system metrics without requiring sudo. The tool includes 6 switchable color themes.
PARAMETERS
-i, --interval MS
Update interval in milliseconds (default: 1000).pipe
Output metrics in JSON format for piping to other tools.debug
Print debug information.
CAVEATS
Only works on Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later). Uses undocumented APIs that may change between macOS versions.
HISTORY
macmon was created by vladkens and is written in Rust.
