I would like to monitor CPU and memory usage in realtime with charts on a macOS system tray (menu bar). Is there a utility that provides such functionality?
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Take a look into menumeters, the description sounds like just what you're after.– sarnoldMar 12, 2011 at 9:41
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4Possible duplicate of Light-weight system monitor tool/app for OSX– FarsideApr 12, 2016 at 11:50
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1Menu Meters is not officially compatible with El Capitan. Here's a source for an unofficial version.– IconDaemonApr 12, 2016 at 20:17
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Another duplicate– BananeenSep 8, 2022 at 18:30
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MenuMeters is popular among the Mac users I know.
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Since I may come across people here who may have used MenuMeters, I would like to ask whether it is stable in terms of memory leaks and crashes.– ayazMar 13, 2011 at 5:28
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1It's free and open source and there's a fork that DOES work with El Capitan, @Restuta Nov 16, 2015 at 8:11
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7The fork for El Capitan is here member.ipmu.jp/yuji.tachikawa/MenuMetersElCapitan Mar 7, 2016 at 5:01
For OS X 10.11 or later, use this fork of MenuMeters: http://member.ipmu.jp/yuji.tachikawa/MenuMetersElCapitan/
(Open the .prefPane
file by Ctrl clicking and selecting Open.)
I also have the same needs but many such softwares are not free, thus I made one myself. Feedback is welcome.
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1Cloned and run, which was fairly straight forward (minor hick-up having to upgrade node). However, even though the new version has an updated icon, it doesn't show the CPU status in the system tray at a glance, and requires clicking through. Sep 29, 2018 at 11:35
This is an old questions, but newcomers might be interested in Übersicht. This allows you to display the information on the desktop, not the menu bar, much like in Conky.
Übersicht uses HTML5 web technology, so has a very modern feel to customize.
iStat Menus 5 now has a free version and works well for monitoring all kinds of system stats, including CPU and memory.
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Übersicht allows for creation of conky-like widgets using coffeeScript. coffeeScript uses HTML. So, display options, such as text size, font and opacity of the background are easily set. The widget sits in front of the background image, but behind any desktop items. Übersicht has many user contributed, downloadable widgets.
I created a conky-like widget for Mac and OS X using Übersicht: https://github.com/dumbo25/conky-for-mac
The iPulse program has been doing this since 2002.
It is recently updated for the Mac App Store and El Capitan and also works on older OS.
It's menu centric, dock centric and/or HUD style visualizations so you can choose exactly what and how you monitor the system performance.
I recommend app called CheckMyMac
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