Flatsonar

System Monitoring Center

by Hakan Dündar

Multi-featured system monitor

Dangerous permissions Flathub reviewed GPL-3.0 v3.4.1
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About

A multi-featured, low-resource system monitor that lets you easily track and manage CPU, RAM, disk, network, and GPU usage

Features:

  • Detailed system performance and usage usage monitoring/managing features
  • Monitoring CPU, RAM, Disk, Network, GPU hardware/usage information
  • Monitoring and managing processes and services (systemd)
  • Monitoring users, sensors and general system information
  • Supports PolicyKit. No need to run the application with "sudo"
  • Hardware selection options (selecting CPU cores, disks, network cards, GPUs)
  • Plotting performance data of multiple devices at the same time
  • Interactive charts for querying performance data on any point
  • Option for showing processes as tree or list
  • Optimized for low CPU usage
  • Customization menus for almost all tabs
  • Supports ARM architecture
  • Free and open source

Notes for Limitations:

  • GPU usage information availability depends on vendor/driver.
  • GPU load is not tracked if GPU tab is switched off (for lower CPU usage).
  • Virtual machines may not provide CPU min-max frequencies, sensors and RAM hardware information.
  • Non-Flatpak versions of the application has higher performance (start speed, CPU, RAM usage).

Notes for Flatpak Support:

  • Flatpak version of the application uses some permissions (like not sandboxed) to access performance/system information of the host OS.
  • Flatpak package of the application may be installed for system-wide instead of user-specific for avoiding source code modifications.

Permissions

3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
    --device=all
  • sandbox escape: can run commands on the host via flatpak-spawn
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak
  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • network
    --share=network
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc

Who publishes this

On Flathub: the manifest was reviewed and built on Flathub's infrastructure, but the developer has not verified ownership of the app id.

  • on Flathub: manifest reviewed and built by Flathub; the developer has not verified the app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

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