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  1. MacThrottle icon
     11 likes

    Lightweight menu bar utility monitors macOS thermal pressure, displays real time CPU temperature, fan speed, and thermal state stats, with alerts and no admin rights required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. Glances icon
     68 likes

    Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a large amount of monitoring information through a curses or Web based interface. The information dynamically adapts depending on the size of the user interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  3. iStat Menus icon
     120 likes

    iStat is a series of system monitor apps. It's available in different versions: iStat Menus, iStat for iOS and iStat Server as a companion application to the iStat for iOS app that lets you remotely monitor your computers (free for Windows and Mac).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
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  4. Netdata icon
     66 likes

    Netdata collects metrics per second and presents them in beautiful low-latency dashboards. It is designed to run on all of your physical and virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and edge/IoT devices, to monitor your systems, containers, and applications.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
    • Python
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
    systemd journal explorer
    fully automated, interactive, real-time dashboards
    50 alternatives
  5. UNIGINE benchmarks can be effectively used to determine the stability of a GPU under extremely stressful conditions, as well as check the cooling system's potential under maximum heat output.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Valley Benchmark
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    32 alternatives
  6. Prometheus icon
     40 likes

    Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cloudron
    • Docker Hub
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  7. Monit icon
     21 likes

    Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    41 alternatives
  8. DriveDx icon
     22 likes

    DriveDx is advanced drive health diagnostic and monitoring utility. Unlike most drive utilities, DriveDx does not only monitor the drive’s built-in S.M.A.R.T. status, but also analyzes the changes of all drive health indicators that are closely related to HDD or SSD failures...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    DriveDx Drive Health Dashboard
    DriveDx Drive Health Indicators
    DriveDx Drive Self-tests
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    DriveDx Drive Self-test completed
    41 alternatives
  9. BitBar icon
     13 likes

    The BitBar app lets you put the output from any script or program right in your Mac OS X menu bar. And it's completely free. An impressive number of plugins have already been contributed by a wide range of developers just like you, and this site makes it easy to find them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    39 alternatives
  10. NetXMS icon
     6 likes

    NetXMS is an enterprise grade multi-platform open source network management and monitoring system. It provides comprehensive event management, performance monitoring, alerting, reporting and graphing for all layers of IT infrastructure — from network devices to business...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Docker
    Proactive monitoring for hybrid systems
    Elaborate zoning and proxy functionality for scattered networks
    Choose between data processing templates and custom rules
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    Discover devices you never knew existed in your network
    44 alternatives
  11. Icinga icon
     36 likes

    Icinga is a fork of Nagios and is backward compatible. So, Nagios configurations, plugins and addons can all be used with Icinga. Though Icinga retains all the existing features of its predecessor, it builds on them to add many long awaited patches and features requested by the...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    66 alternatives
  12. InfluxDB icon
     9 likes

    InfluxDB open source time series database, purpose-built by InfluxData for monitoring metrics and events, provides real-time visibility into stacks, sensors, and systems. Use InfluxDB to capture, analyze, and store millions of points per second, meet demanding SLA’s, and chart a...

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
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  13. TG Pro icon
     3 likes

    Monitor Mac internal temperatures for potential overheating. Automatically or manually adjusts fan speeds to keep your Mac cool, ensuring optimal performance.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  14. Hot icon
     1 like

    Hot is macOS menu bar application that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  15. GeekTool icon
     25 likes

    GeekTool is an application for Mac OS 10.6+. It lets you display various kinds of information on your desktop via 3 default plug-ins:

    • File plugin to monitor MacOS X activity
    • Shell mode to launch custom scripts or commands
    • Image mode

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  16. MacCPUID icon
     2 likes

    MacCPUID is a developer tool used for displaying information collected from the microprocessor via the CPUID instruction. The CPUID instruction returns information in the general purpose registers such as manufacturer identification, a processor's family, model, and stepping...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  17. Tyler's Frame Machine is a simple, free, educational, small, cross-platform, and portable tool for testing, benchmarking, calibration, framerate comparison, and demonstration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • WebGL
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