Forget boring system monitors — Gotop makes your terminal look like it just hacked the Pentagon. With real-time graphs, blazing neon bars, and stats flying across the screen like you’re defusing a cyber-bomb, it’s basically the Fast & Furious of CPU tools. I slapped it on my servers and MacBook and now I check system stats just to feel cool. If your terminal doesn’t look like it’s about to launch something, are you even monitoring?
For linux, download gotop for your architecture here:
https://github.com/cjbassi/gotop/releases
If you don’t know, you likely want gotop_3.0.0_darwin_amd64.tgz, but hey – check first. The following example is for ‘gotop_3.0.0_darwin_amd64.tgz’ for Intel and AMD 64 bit processors:
Step 1:
Download gotop using the link above
Step 2:
Open a terminal
Step 3:
Type cd ~/Downloads
Step 4:
Type tar zxvf gotop_3.0.0_darwin_amd64.tgz
Step 5:
Type sudo install gotop /usr/local/bin/
Step 6:
Type gotop – watch it run
All done!