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psutil: Python's All-in-One System Monitor

psutil: Python's All-in-One System Monitor

psutil: Cross-platform Python library for system monitoring. Get CPU, memory, disk, network stats & process info in one API. Replace scattered Linux/Unix commands.

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psutil examples, top-like nettop, top, netstat, df, free, etc.

Are you tormented daily by a bunch of scattered system monitoring commands? top, free, df, netstat...?

With psutil, Python handles all metrics in one go: CPU, memory, disk, network, even fan speeds and battery status - a one-stop solution.

What exactly is psutil?

psutil (process and system utilities) is a cross-platform Python library specifically designed to retrieve various information about running processes and systems.

• Supported platforms: Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, AIX

• Python versions: CPython 3.6+, PyPy; legacy versions support Python 2.7 (psutil 6.1.1)

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