# Install bmon with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper

Interface bandwidth monitor. Version 4.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install bmon.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:bmon
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install bmon
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install bmon
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: net/bmon/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add bmon
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: bmon from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install bmon
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: bmon from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install bmon
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: bmon from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#bmon
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bm/bmon/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S bmon
```

  Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: bmon from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install bmon
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: bmon from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:bmon
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 4.0
- **Source summary:** Interface bandwidth monitor
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/tgraf/bmon>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/tgraf/bmon>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- bmon (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 4.0
## Project history and usage

bmon is a terminal bandwidth monitor and rate estimator for inspecting network interface statistics in a human-friendly curses UI or scriptable text output.

### Project history

Thomas Graf's bmon project presents itself as a monitoring and debugging tool that captures networking-related statistics and renders them visually. Its GitHub repository became the central upstream location for releases and source.

### Adoption history

bmon is small but broadly packaged: it appears in Homebrew and common Linux distribution package sets, which reflects its role as a lightweight alternative to heavier network-monitoring stacks.

### How it is used

Users run bmon to watch per-interface traffic rates, packet counters, and related statistics from a terminal. It is handy over SSH, in minimal systems, or during quick diagnosis when a full metrics stack is unnecessary.

### Why package nerds care

bmon matters to package nerds as a classic single-purpose Unix network tool: tiny enough to install casually, useful enough to keep around, and dependent on platform network-statistics APIs that package maintainers must test across systems.

### Timeline

- 2010s: bmon development consolidates around the tgraf/bmon GitHub repository.
- 2017-12: GitHub releases list bmon v4.0.
- 2020s: bmon remains available across Homebrew and mainstream Linux package managers.

### Related projects

- iftop, nload, vnstat, iproute2, and netstat-style tools occupy nearby bandwidth-monitoring and network-statistics niches.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/tgraf/bmon>
- <https://github.com/tgraf/bmon/releases>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: /etc/bmon.conf, ~/.bmonrc
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - bmon - 1:4.0-10: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: bmon from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | portable bandwidth monitor and rate estimator | http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/bmon/
- Nix - bmon: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bm/bmon/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - bmon - 1:4.0-10: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: bmon from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | portable bandwidth monitor and rate estimator | http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/bmon/
- apk - bmon - 4.0-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: bmon from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | bandwidth monitor and rate estimator | https://github.com/tgraf/bmon
- apk - bmon-doc - 4.0-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: bmon-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | bandwidth monitor and rate estimator (documentation) | https://github.com/tgraf/bmon
- dnf - bmon - 4.0-16.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: bmon from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Bandwidth monitor and rate estimator | https://github.com/tgraf/bmon
- pacman - bmon - 4.0-5: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: bmon from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Portable bandwidth monitor and rate estimator | https://github.com/tgraf/bmon/
- zypper - bmon - 4.0-1.39: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: bmon from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Bandwidth Monitor and Rate Estimator | https://github.com/tgraf/bmon
- MacPorts - bmon: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/bmon/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/bmon.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/bmon.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph