macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install syswatchlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew / rank 6094
Install syswatch with Homebrew, Nix
Cross-platform system diagnostics TUI. Version 0.7.7 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-26. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#syswatch.
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Linux
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#syswatchnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/sy/syswatch/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Cross-platform system diagnostics TUI
Project links
Commands and aliases
- syswatch
history
Project history and usage
SysWatch is a read-only terminal system-diagnostics application for macOS and Linux. Its twelve tabs combine CPU, memory, disk, filesystem, process, GPU, power, service, network, timeline, and anomaly views in one TUI.
Project history
Matthew Hart published SysWatch 0.1.0 in May 2026 and iterated rapidly through the 0.7 series. The project grew from a live single-host dashboard into a session-oriented diagnostic tool with settings, snapshots, recording and replay, historical scrubbing, and plain-English anomaly cards.
Adoption history
The project ships through Cargo and Homebrew and publishes prebuilt release binaries; the supplied package metadata also records Nix packaging. Its official project page presents it as part of the NetWatch Labs family of focused terminal observability tools.
How it is used
Running syswatch starts a 1 Hz dashboard; flags select a faster tick, an initial tab, or a recorded session to replay. Single-key controls switch tabs, filter and sort processes, pause collection, change graph style and theme, capture snapshots, record sessions, and scrub backward through the session.
Why package nerds care
SysWatch packages the jobs of many classic host-inspection commands into one Rust TUI without requiring sudo or a resident daemon. It is especially useful for package users who want a portable first-response console rather than a monitoring service.
Timeline
- 2026-05: SysWatch 0.1.0 was released.
- 2026-05: Releases through 0.7.0 added and refined the multi-tab diagnostics workflow.
- 2026-06: Version 0.7.2 expanded per-process accounting.
- 2026-07: Versions 0.7.4 and 0.7.5 were released.
Related projects
- NetWatch is the sibling network-analysis tool, DiskWatch covers disk diagnostics, and netwatch-sdk supplies shared network and disk parsers. The README compares individual tabs with htop, iostat, nettop, powermetrics, df, ps, and systemctl.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for syswatch. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
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
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Linux
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/syswatch/config.toml~/.config/syswatch/config.toml- macOS
~/Library/Application Support/syswatch/config.toml
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
syswatch | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.7.7
manager updated2026-07-26
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:syswatch |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.7.7 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://www.netwatchlabs.com/labs/syswatch |
| Repository | https://github.com/matthart1983/syswatch |
| Last updated | 2026-07-26T07:01:57Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
syswatch
nix profile install nixpkgs#syswatch- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Syswatch
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation