Most network monitoring software on Mac monitor both network and hardware activity on your Mac although you’ll usually find that some apps are more focuses on one than the other. The good news is that some of the best network monitoring for software for Mac is either free or costs very little. MacOS even has its own free network monitoring. WebWatcher for Mac begins monitoring and recording all historical activity discreetly and then sends it to your secure online account. Log into your WebWatcher account from any device to see all recorded data at your convenience from our intuitive web interface. See all activity organized in your online WebWatcher account.
I've been using iStat Menus as a quick-look system monitor on my Mac for many years now. It's a great utility that stays in the system menu and lets you see your computer's activity (CPU, memory, network, etc) at a glance. Clicking a graph displays more detailed information. A great tool all around.However, recently, I had to buy another Mac to replace a failing Mac and didn't particularly want to buy a second license for the software. Due to the nature of my work (and because I just want to), I like to be able to see what my Mac is doing with its CPU, Network and Memory, so I went looking for an alternative solution.
What I found was a free utility called MenuMeters for OS X. It works on El Capitan and later versions and is very comparable to iStat Menus, though it does display different information and isn't as polished, but you can't argue with the price.
MenuMeters provides many of the same graphs as iStat Menus, the important ones - CPU, Disk, Memory and Network are all there, and that's all I mostly wanted anyway. Configuration of each of the graphs is a little more detailed than iStat Menus and there are many options to how a graph is displayed, which I really liked.
The only thing that was missing from MenuMeters was a widget to display time and a small pop-up calendar, for that I found another utility called Itsycal for Mac and I actually like it much better than the iStat Menus clock widget because it's so much more customisable.
So would I go back to iStat Menus now? Probably not to be completely honest. The free utilities that I've been able to find fulfil my needs for system monitoring and well, they are free and are quite good.
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Unobtrusive and small utility which will keep a close eye on your Mac's processor and notify you when its temperature goes above a pre-defined safe value
What's new in Temp Monitor 1.4.8:
- Fix bug that causes two instances of menu/helper app.
- Fix open at login issues.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
Although most of Apple's Macs come with highly efficient cooling designs, there are times when intensive processing tasks such as video rendering and audio design put an enormous strain on the CPU.
If you need to stay on top of the situation and to keep a close eye on your Mac processor's temperature, it is a good idea to have an app capable of monitoring it one look away at all times.
Support for customizable overheat temperature
Temp Monitor is a macOS application specifically designed to watch a Mac processor's temperature very closely and display it in the menu bar in the form of a text- and icon-based status item.
More precisely, Temp Monitor runs in the background and will let you know when the CPU's temperature reaches dangerous levels, thus enabling you to pause highly intensive processing tasks and resume them at a later time to protect your Mac's integrity.
The CPU temperature which triggers Temp Monitor to display an overheat notification can be customized via the app's settings window. From there you can also set Temp Monitor to launch on login and choose the default temperature unit it uses.
Notification Center integration and automatic logging of all overheat alerts
Furthermore, the Temp Monitor utility displays audio and visual notifications via macOS' Notification Center feature, and it they are by default set to be alerts which will not go away until manually dismissed, an excellent idea for when you are away from your Mac and the CPU temperature goes above the safe threshold.
The temperature warnings are also added automatically to Notification Center's notifications tab, for later reviewing of all past alerts when and if needed.
Low-key CPU temperature monitor for Macs
As a downside, when clicking the 'Configure Notifications' in Temp Monitor's Settings window, you are directed to System Preferences' main screen instead of the Notifications preference pane.
To summarize it all, the Temp Monitor app is an unobtrusive tool which will alert you when your Mac overheats, and the perfect utility to help you log all instances when the processor goes beyond a temperature which might be dangerous for both your Mac and yourself, if you're using a MacBook or MacBook Pro.
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Temp Monitor was reviewed by Sergiu GatlanMac System Monitor Widget Free
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Temp Monitor 1.4.8
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- macOS 10.11 or later (Universal Binary)
- file size:
- 10.5 MB
- filename:
- TempMonitor.zip
- main category:
- System Utilities
- developer:
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