Stomata

A lightweight real-time terminal system monitor built with Rust

Track machine resource utilization, processes and performance in real-time as you run from your terminal

Demo

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0dbe7dcc-a76e-4dd1-ae8f-233ebdf8e4e0

Stomata tracking memory, swap, CPU, and per-process resource usage in real-time

Why Stomata?

I repeateadly faced out-of-memory issues while working with very large Rust projects. Other tools showed me the metrics, but not the culprit and in a very clustered UI.

Stomata gives:

• System-wide metrics: Memory, Swap, CPU, Disk usage in one place. You can immediately know when the load kicks in
• Process level details: See exactly which process is using how much of machine resources
• Single Process inspection: Drill into a single process to check its CPU utilizations, memory use, disk read/write bytes in real-time
• Lightweight: Minimal footprints

Features

System Monitoring

• Real-time memory, swap, CPU, disk usage gauges
• CPU utilization tracking
• OS and system information

Process Monitoring

• Live process list with resource consumption
• Per-process CPU and memory usage
• Per process meta info about running time, start time, working directory and more

Process Inspection

• Select any process for detailed view

• Current working directory (CWD)

• Disk read/write bytes with sparkline graphs

• Memory and CPU usage over time

• Designed as a workspace: includes a reusable library (Stomata-core) and a CLI (Stomata-cli)

Installation

Via crates.io:

cargo install stomata-cli

Using the core library in your project:

cargo add stomata-core

Usage

# Run with default settings
stomata

# Custom refresh interval (milliseconds)
stomata --interval 1000

Building from Source

Requires Rust 1.90.0+

git clone https://github.com/aditya172926/stomata-cli.git
cd stomata-cli

# Debug build
cargo build
# or
make build

# Release build
make release

Project Structure

Stomata is organized as a Cargo workspace:

• stomata-cli — The terminal application
• stomata-core — Reusable library for metrics collection

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Contributing Guidelines before submitting a pull request.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT)