gotop

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.

Named or custom layout (e.g. minimal, battery, kitchensink).

Enable NVIDIA GPU stats (requires nvidia-smi).

Print available key bindings or built-in color schemes and exit.

Persist current flags to the config 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.

NVIDIA GPU monitoring requires the nvidia-smi binary to be present; no AMD GPU support. Some metrics may be platform-specific (Windows support is limited compared to Linux/FreeBSD/macOS). 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)

Source code