libstatgrab ☆

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Description:
Provides cross-platform access to statistics about the system

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: system-monitoring statistics cross-platform c-library sysadmin

Install: brew install libstatgrab

About:
Libstatgrab is a library that provides a cross-platform interface for accessing system statistics. It gathers data on CPU usage, memory, disk I/O, network activity, and process information. Its main value is abstracting away OS-specific complexities, allowing developers to build monitoring tools that work on Linux, BSD, macOS, and Solaris.

Key Features:

Cross-platform support for Linux, BSD, macOS, and Solaris
Unified API for system statistics (CPU, memory, network, disk)
Provides both C library and command-line tools (e.g., iostat, cpu_stats)
Designed for building monitoring applications and system dashboards

Use Cases:

Building custom system monitoring dashboards
Collecting performance metrics for distributed systems
Debugging application resource usage across different OSs

Alternatives:

sysstat – Sysstat is Linux-specific and focuses on historical reporting, whereas Libstatgrab offers a cross-platform API for real-time data.
gopsutil – Gopsutil is a Go library with similar goals but is language-specific, while Libstatgrab provides a C library usable by any language via bindings.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 16, 2025 10:27am		0	VERSION_BUMP	2cf76a1e