What's your favorite system monitoring tool?

[MacMan988]

I’m using btop these days

 

[ifrit05]

+1 for stats/Macs Fan Control

 

[ThunderMtn7]

There is a free app that I have been using for years called "System Monitor." It's no longer on the App Store but it continues to be available on their website. It's simple and easy to use. Here is the link: https://www.bresink.com/osx/SystemMonitor.html

 

[meetree]

TBH, Activity Monitor has most of the information you need for troubleshooting a problem; and if there's no problem, then I don't need to oversee the OS's self-management.

I used to believe that visual monitoring wasn’t necessary—until I started encountering issues with certain processes, like Safari tabs and Spotlight indexing, that would suddenly consume CPU and make my MacBook Pro (first with Intel, now with M1) less responsive than I wanted.

Since I’m particularly sensitive to performance slowdowns, I began using the iStats Menus CPU widget, which is visible at all times.

Now, I can identify these resource-hogging processes almost immediately, instead of wondering, «What’s going on? Is this just my imagination, or is there really another CPU-intensive process running that requires me to open Activity Monitor to troubleshoot?»

My short answers are:
- macOS’s self-management isn’t sufficient for my needs,
- that’s why I use iStat.

 

[maxoakland]

Activity Monitor is good enough for me