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System Monitor

Design study for a terminal-style system monitor: CPU, memory, network and process panes feeding one dashboard renderer. Architecture on this page — no live agent behind it yet.

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Sole engineer — design stage

The problem

Reading a machine's health usually means four tools and a browser tab. This is the design for one terminal-shaped dashboard that pulls CPU, memory, network and process data into a single view.

Outcome

Design stage, and labelled as such: what exists today is the component breakdown and data flow on this page. No agent is collecting metrics yet.

Metric Domains

Components

Refresh Target

Design

Stage

System Monitor

Dashboard
- Single-view layout
- Terminal-style UI
- 2s refresh target
collects from
Monitors
- CPU - Usage & Cores
- Memory - Heap & Stack
- Network - Bandwidth & Latency
renders via
Output
- Process List
- Terminal Renderer

Designed around one terminal-shaped view instead of four separate tools
CPU pane specified with a per-core usage breakdown
Memory pane tracking heap and stack allocation
Network pane for bandwidth and latency
Process list with per-process resource consumption
Zero-dependency renderer as the design constraint — nothing is collecting metrics yet

Want systems built like this?

I'm open to backend and platform work, contract or permanent — on-site in Belgium and the Netherlands, or fully remote for a team anywhere in the world, US and APAC hours included. EU citizen, so no sponsorship is needed. Tell me what you're building.

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System Monitor

The problem

Outcome

Dashboard

Monitors

Output

Want systems built like this?

Dashboard

Monitors

Output