macmon Plugin
Real-time system monitor for Apple Silicon Macs (M1-M5). No sudo required.
Commands
Monitoring
macmon self version— Print macmon versionmacmon pipe metrics— Output metrics in JSON format for piping to other toolsmacmon _ _— Passthrough to macmon CLI
Usage Examples
- "Monitor my Mac's CPU power usage in JSON format"
- "Get current memory usage and temperature"
- "Pipe macmon output to jq for processing"
Installation
brew install macmon
Examples
# Interactive TUI mode
macmon
# JSON output for piping (10 samples, 500ms interval)
macmon pipe -s 10 -i 500 | jq
# Continuous monitoring
macmon pipe -s 0 -i 1000
Key Features
- No sudo required
- Real-time CPU/GPU/ANE power usage
- CPU utilization per cluster
- RAM/Swap usage
- Temperature monitoring
- JSON output mode for scripting
- Prometheus metrics server mode