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Description:
Interface bandwidth monitor

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 4.0@2 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Networking

Tags: networking monitoring cli bandwidth terminal

Install: brew install bmon

About:
bmon (Bandwidth Monitor) is a robust command-line tool for monitoring network bandwidth and usage. It provides a real-time, curses-based interface that displays a list of network interfaces along with their current throughput. The tool supports various output methods, including an interactive text-based UI and machine-readable formats for scripting.

Key Features:

Real-time interactive text-based UI
Support for multiple output formats (plain, curses, HTML)
Detailed per-interface statistics
Extensible via plugins

Use Cases:

Real-time monitoring of server network traffic
Diagnosing bandwidth saturation issues
Tracking data usage on specific interfaces

Alternatives:

iftop – iftop focuses on connection-based monitoring, showing bandwidth usage per connection, whereas bmon focuses on interface-level statistics.
nload – nload provides a simpler, graph-focused view of device traffic, while bmon offers a more detailed list-based interface.

License: BSD-2-Clause

Dependencies: confuse, libnl

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_ventura, arm64_monterey, arm64_big_sur, sonoma, ventura, monterey, big_sur, catalina, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 12, 2025 6:45pm	2	VERSION_BUMP	207da342
Sep 30, 2023 6:59am	2	VERSION_BUMP	707de840
Jan 2, 2023 9:05am	2	VERSION_BUMP	8f26b493
Nov 20, 2022 10:32pm	2	VERSION_BUMP	76a4613c