Pyre

Complete featureset.

Every capability engineered for macOS, Linux, and Windows — from low-level silicon metrics to active automation and memory optimization.

Active Maintenance

macOS System Optimizer

Intelligent memory and disk reclamation tailored for macOS workflows.

Idle App Reaper: Ranks GUI apps by activation order via lsappinfo and safely quits inactive windows.
Background Tracker: Native launchd agent (pyre optimize track) recording precise frontmost app usage.
Safe ⌘Q Termination: Graceful AppleScript quit gives apps a chance to prompt for unsaved documents.
Inactive RAM Purge: Evaluates memory pressure, swap, compressed pages, and flushes cache via sudo purge.
Developer Cache Cleaner: Safely measures and cleans Xcode DerivedData, Homebrew, npm, Yarn, pnpm, and pip caches.
Startup & DNS Audit: Flags broken or orphaned LaunchAgent plists and flushes the macOS DNS resolver cache.

pyre optimize macOS Sonoma & Sequoia

Hardware Probes

Apple Silicon & Sensors

Microsecond-accurate hardware telemetry directly from Apple Silicon counters.

P/E Cluster Telemetry: Performance and Efficiency core frequencies, thread load, and per-core mini bars.
GPU & Neural Engine: Real-time Metal core utilization, VRAM allocation, and Apple Neural Engine (ANE) power draw.
Real-Time Wattage: Live power draw in watts via IOReport and Powermetrics across CPU, GPU, and memory.
SMC Thermals & Fans: Die junction temps, thermal throttling alerts, and independent dual fan RPM telemetry.
Smart Battery Forensics: Rolling discharge heuristics forecasting true runtime, cycle count, and wear degradation.
S.M.A.R.T. Disk Health: NVMe wear level %, temperature, reallocated sectors, and total lifetime terabytes written.

pyre live / pyre smart M1 • M2 • M3 • M4

Interactive TUI

Interactive Terminal UI

Full-screen terminal dashboard with responsive layout and instant keyboard shortcuts.

6 Built-In Themes: Default, Dracula, Cyberpunk, Monochrome, Nord, and Gruvbox, plus custom JSON color maps.
Search-As-You-Type: Fuzzy process filter (/) with instant sorting by CPU, RSS, PID, user, or state.
Process Hierarchy Tree: Instant tree-view toggle (t) visualising process parentage and worker threads.
Signal Dispatch: Send SIGTERM, SIGKILL, SIGSTOP, or SIGHUP directly to rogue processes (k / S).
Sparklines & Histograms: Rolling 60-second charts with dynamic zoom levels ([ / ]).
Bookmarks & Palette: Session bookmarks (Shift+M) and quick-action command palette (:).

pyre live --theme dracula Zero Latency • Mouse Support

Rules & Remediation

Autonomous Watchdog

Persistent daemon evaluating threshold rules and automatically mitigating rogue processes.

Runaway Mitigation: Configurable rules (e.g. CPU > 90% for 30s) automatically renice or kill runaway processes.
Multi-Channel Webhooks: Broadcast alerts to Slack, Discord, Pushover, or self-hosted ntfy.sh topics.
Thermal Protection: Protects Mac hardware by triggering cooldown notifications or actions before thermal throttle.
Native Service Integration: Install as an autonomous background LaunchAgent (macOS) or systemd unit (Linux).
Audit Trail: Complete forensic logs of triggered rules, killed PIDs, and resource states over time.

pyre watchdog Autonomous Daemon

Sockets & Networking

Network Forensics & Mesh

Deep socket inspections, per-process bandwidth metering, and encrypted peer streaming.

Per-Process Bandwidth: Real-time upload and download speeds per app using macOS nettop forensics.
Encrypted P2P Streaming: Stream live stats across machines over TCP with TLS and HMAC-SHA256 signing.
Multi-Host Fleet View: Aggregate tens of remote servers over SSH or P2P into an auto-tiled overview (pyre fleet).
Topology Auto-Discovery: Network topology mapper with active neighbor ARP/ping discovery (pyre topo).
DNS Query Inspector: Monitor DNS resolution cache and flush poisoned records on demand.

pyre netusage / pyre p2p TLS • HMAC • SSH

Intelligence & APIs

AI Insights & Integrations

Machine-learning anomaly detection, CPU call-tree sampling, and open ecosystem exports.

Z-Score Anomaly Digest: Statistical standard deviation analysis flags abnormal resource spikes over time.
Plain-English AI Explanations: Diagnose system spikes using local Ollama models or OpenAI (pyre explain).
Call-Tree CPU Profiler: Sample running processes via sample/spindump to locate hot functions (pyre profile-proc).
Active Build & Render Trackers: Real-time compiler tracking (pyre build) and Blender 3D render job monitor.
Prometheus & REST Server: Built-in Prometheus /metrics endpoint and lightweight JSON REST API server.
Historical CSV Replay: Log sessions continuously to CSV and play them back visually in the interactive TUI.

pyre explain / pyre prometheus Ollama • OpenAI • Prometheus

How Pyre compares.

Hardware telemetry, encrypted streaming, web portal.

Feature	Pyre	btop	macmon	mactop	asitop	htop	Glances
Interactive TUI with themes	6 themes	✓	✓	✓	✓	Limited	✓
Encrypted peer-to-peer streaming	TLS + HMAC	—	—	—	—	—	Partial
Multi-host fleet view	✓	—	—	—	—	—	✓
Web portal	✓	—	—	—	—	—	✓
Apple Silicon power draw	Watts, P/E cores	Partial	IOReport	Powermetrics	Powermetrics	Partial	Partial
Socket forensics	✓	Partial	—	—	—	—	Partial
Anomaly detection	Z-score	—	—	—	—	—	—
Energy profiler	kWh, joules	—	—	—	—	—	—
macOS System Optimizer	✓ (Apps, Caches, RAM)	—	—	—	—	—	—
Autonomous Watchdog & Alerts	✓ (Webhooks + Daemon)	—	—	—	—	—	—
Export formats	JSON, CSV, HTML, MD	—	—	—	—	—	InfluxDB, CSV

Command	Description
pyre	Snapshot of CPU, memory, disk, network, and thermals
pyre live	Interactive live full-screen dashboard with real-time graphs
pyre check	One-line plain-English health summary
pyre doctor	Run system diagnostics (permissions, SIP, Gatekeeper, sensors)
pyre web [--port 3000]	Serve an auto-refreshing live web portal with SSE stream
pyre ui [--compact]	Launch native macOS Activity Monitor window
pyre netusage [--top 15]	Real-time per-application network usage breakdown
pyre fleet <host1> <host2>	Multi-host live dashboard monitoring multiple hosts
pyre ssh <user@host>	Stream live stats from a remote host over SSH
pyre bench "<cmd>"	Log CPU, memory, power draw, and estimate kWh cost
pyre benchmark	Run a 1-minute CPU benchmark calculating digits of PI
pyre anomalies [--since 7d]	Compute z-score anomalies and print plain-language digest
pyre info	Concise hardware summary including battery health & displays
pyre brew	Package manager health panel (brew/apt/pacman/winget)
pyre smart	S.M.A.R.T. disk health report (requires smartmontools)
pyre extensions	System Extensions / Driver inspector
pyre blender	Track active Blender render jobs and their progress
pyre build	Active compiler and build system tracker
pyre topo	Network topology mapper and pyre peer auto-discovery
pyre explain	AI-powered anomaly explanation (Ollama/OpenAI/builtin)
pyre diff <file1> <file2>	Compare two saved snapshot files side-by-side
pyre history	Graph historical resource trends from CSV logs
pyre replay <file>	Play back a pyre CSV log file in the TUI
pyre pipe	Continuous newline-delimited JSON stream for scripting
pyre stress	Synthetic CPU/GPU load generator
pyre watchdog	Persistent autonomous monitoring daemon and rules engine
pyre serve [--port 8080]	Lightweight structured JSON REST API server
pyre profile <save\|load\|list>	Atomic configuration profile management
pyre config <show\|reset>	View or reset persistent configuration file
pyre completions <shell>	Generate shell auto-completion scripts (zsh, bash, fish, powershell)
pyre prometheus	Start a Prometheus metrics exporter on localhost
pyre p2p <server\|connect>	Start a P2P server or connect to one
pyre server	Print commands for starting P2P server/client with generated password
pyre sync <push\|pull\|status>	Synchronize config profiles across machines
pyre xbar	Generate an xbar / SwiftBar menu bar plugin script
pyre optimize	macOS system optimizer overview & recommendations
pyre optimize apps	Find & gracefully quit idle GUI apps (--idle, --keep, --dry-run)
pyre optimize track	Background activity tracker daemon (--install / --uninstall / --auto-quit)
pyre optimize memory	Evaluate memory pressure, swap, compressor & run sudo purge
pyre optimize caches	Measure & clean developer/app caches (--clean, skips active apps)
pyre optimize trash	Calculate Trash size and safely empty it (--empty)
pyre optimize startup	Audit Login Items & LaunchAgents, flagging broken leftover plists
pyre optimize dns	Flush macOS DNS resolver cache (dscacheutil & mDNSResponder)
pyre optimize protect <app>	Add or remove applications from the protected whitelist
pyre --json	Export as JSON (also --csv, --tsv, --html, --md)

?	Power user quick reference: all shortcuts
:	Command palette: fuzzy-search any action
Shift+M / M	Save / recall named session bookmarks
[ / ]	Zoom in / out on history graphs
Tab / Shift+Tab	Cycle panels / go back in panel history
/	Filter processes (search-as-you-type)
t	Toggle process tree view hierarchy
c	Open theme & panel customizer
k / S	Process kill mode / select termination signal
p / q	Pause live feed / quit

Five interactive views.

Silicon

Thermals

Network

Power

Optimizer