https://github.com/vanheemstrasystems/btop

btop - To monitor the system performance and understand what’s going on.
https://github.com/vanheemstrasystems/btop

btop gui terminal

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btop - To monitor the system performance and understand what’s going on.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vanheemstrasystems/btop
• Owner: vanHeemstraSystems
• Created: 2023-11-28T13:05:26.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-28T13:18:03.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-07-07T00:46:14.146Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: btop, gui, terminal
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• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md

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btop

# btop

Based on "Awesome Terminal Applications" at https://medium.com/gitconnected/awesome-terminal-applications-e4a06022dffa

Based on "btop" at https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

To monitor the system performance and understand what’s going on, there is a default tool called top

Go to your terminal and run:

```

$ top

```

the output, which will look like this:

![image](https://github.com/vanHeemstraSystems/btop/assets/1499433/aeabfe98-3eab-4b50-90b4-5c4e59302351)

top

This shows you the basic system status, the number of processes, and so on.

But there is a better version of this tool: **btop**.

Let’s first install it.

On Mac:

```

$ brew install btop

```

On Linux:

```

$ brew install btop

```

After the command is successful run:

```

$ btop

```

And you will see the following output:

![image](https://github.com/vanHeemstraSystems/btop/assets/1499433/859cfba5-c2f5-480a-9dad-2a35c7edf972)

btop

How cool is that?

But wait a minute. This is not just beautiful. This is functional as well.

You will see the shortcuts are given. You can use your mouse or keyboard to navigate and kill unnecessary processes.