What is seesys?

Seesys is a terminal based tool for watching your computer's infrastructure health in real time, written in Python using two libraries called rich and psutil. Instead of a graphical dashboard, it draws live charts and numbers directly inside your terminal window, tracking CPU, memory, disk, and network activity as they happen. Over a few versions the tool has grown a handful of extra features on top of that core monitoring. It can show a live list of running processes along with sensor details such as temperatures, display GPU usage if your machine has a graphics card, and draw simple text based line graphs that show how CPU and memory usage have changed over recent history. A more recent addition lets you pause the flow of data with a single key press so you can freeze the screen and take a clean snapshot of what you are seeing. Installing seesys is meant to be simple regardless of which operating system you use. There are one line install scripts for Windows using PowerShell and for Linux or macOS using a bash command, and each one automatically downloads the correct pre built program for your system and places it somewhere your computer can find and run it. If you would rather run it directly from the source code, you can clone the repository, install the Python packages it depends on, and run the main script yourself. Behind the scenes, the project uses an automated GitHub Actions workflow so that whenever the maintainer publishes a new release, the cross platform executable files are built automatically using a packaging tool called PyInstaller and attached to that release. This means anyone using the one line install scripts will always be pulling down the latest built version without the maintainer needing to do that work by hand each time. Overall, seesys positions itself as a lightweight, no frills way to keep an eye on how a machine is performing without leaving the terminal, aimed at people who are comfortable working from a command line and want a quick visual read on their system's vital signs at a glance.