dalance/procs
Procs
Procs is a high-performance system process monitor and viewer written in Rust. It serves as a replacement for the ps command, providing a command-line interface to track active system processes and their associated CPU and memory metrics.
The tool is distinguished by its container awareness, which maps system tasks to their corresponding Docker container names. It also features an interactive process tree to visualize parent and child relationships in a hierarchical layout and a JSON exporter for programmatic data analysis and automation.
The monitoring surface includes real-time activity tracking through interval-based polling, keyword and regular expression filtering, and metric-based sorting. Users can customize the experience through TOML configuration files to manage output columns, color themes, and visual alignment.
The utility includes shell completion generation for multiple command-line shells and integrates with system pagers for navigating long process lists.
Features
- Process Monitors - Provides a high-performance tool for tracking status and resource usage of system processes.
- Rust Process Monitors - Provides a high-performance system process monitor and viewer written in Rust.
- Container Process Mapping - Maps system tasks to their corresponding Docker container names for easier identification.
- Process Hierarchy Visualizations - Visualizes parent and child process relationships in a hierarchical tree layout.
- Process Tree Reconstruction - Visualizes parent-child relationships between system processes to identify execution chains.
- Rust Systems Programming - Developed using Rust to ensure memory safety and high performance when interfacing with OS kernels.
- System Process Tracking - Tracks active system processes with detailed metrics including CPU usage, memory, and network ports.
- Container-Process Mapping - Provides the ability to map system processes to their corresponding Docker container names.
- Containerized Process Inspection - Identifies which system processes belong to specific Docker containers for easier debugging.
- Command Line Inspection - Provides capabilities for inspecting and filtering active system processes via the command line.
- System Process Viewers - Serves as a replacement for the ps command to display active tasks with CPU and memory metrics.
- Process Metric Sorting - Organizes process data by specific resource metrics in ascending or descending order.
- Process List Filters - Evaluates active process lists against regular expressions to isolate specific system tasks.
- JSON System Metrics Exporters - Serializes internal process structures into JSON format for integration with external automation tools.
- JSON Telemetry Exports - Exports live process information into JSON format for integration with external monitoring tools.
- System Metrics JSON Exporters - Exports live system process information into JSON format for use in automated monitoring pipelines.
- Real Time Process Monitors - Monitors system activity changes through live-refresh polling at configurable intervals.
- Process Attribute Selection - Allows users to select specific process attributes, such as environment variables and network ports, for display.
- Process Filtering - Provides keyword and regular expression filtering to isolate specific system tasks.
- Scheduled State Polling - Implements periodic queries to capture snapshots of system state for real-time monitoring.
- System Monitoring and Benchmarking - Modern replacement for process status reporting.
- System Utilities - Modern replacement for the ps command.
- ps - Listed in the “ps” section of the Awesome Alternatives In Rust awesome list.
