# 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.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:syswatch
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install syswatch
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#syswatch
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:syswatch
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.7.7
- **Source summary:** Cross-platform system diagnostics TUI
- **Homepage:** <https://www.netwatchlabs.com/labs/syswatch>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/matthart1983/syswatch>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-26T07:01:57Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- syswatch (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.7.7
## 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

- <https://github.com/matthart1983/syswatch#readme>
- <https://github.com/matthart1983/syswatch/blob/main/src/config.rs>
- <https://github.com/matthart1983/syswatch/releases>
- <https://www.netwatchlabs.com/labs/syswatch>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

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.



## 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

- Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/syswatch/config.toml, ~/.config/syswatch/config.toml
- macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/syswatch/config.toml
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - syswatch: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/sy/syswatch/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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