---
title: "btop"
category: "Desktop and system"
tagline: "A colorful terminal monitor for CPU, memory, disks, network and processes."
source: "pacman"
package: "btop"
command: "btop"
code: "https://github.com/aristocratos/btop"
---

## What it is

btop is a resource monitor for the terminal. It shows CPU use per core, memory, disk and network activity as live graphs, with a sortable, filterable list of processes underneath that you can inspect or stop. It works with the mouse as well as the keyboard.

## Why it's here

- **The whole machine at a glance.** See what's busy without opening several tools.
- **Find the culprit.** Sort processes by CPU or memory and stop the one misbehaving.
- **Works over SSH.** Check a remote machine from your terminal.

## On CoreDesktop

btop is installed from pacman, with nothing extra configured. Run `btop` in a terminal and press <kbd>q</kbd> to quit. `update` keeps it current.