Alternatives to plog
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. plog itself: install plog.
spdlog
Fast C++ logging library
quill
Ultra-low-latency asynchronous C++17 logging and metrics library for performance-critical applications
zlog
A reliable, high-performance, thread safe, flexsible, clear-model, pure C logging library
hwatch
hwatch: alternative watch command with history, diff view, JSONL logging, and change hooks
Stats
macOS system monitor in your menu bar
btop
A monitor of resources
MonitorControl
🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the
nvtop
GPU & Accelerator process monitoring for AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm
hubble
Hubble - Network, Service & Security Observability for Kubernetes using eBPF
git-sizer
Compute various size metrics for a Git repository, flagging those that might cause problems
findomain
The fastest and complete solution for domain recognition. Supports screenshoting, port scan, HTTP check, data import from other tools, subdomain monit
sjk
Small set of tools for JVM troublshooting, monitoring and profiling
gotop
A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop
somo
A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux and macOS
kapacitor
Open source framework for processing, monitoring, and alerting on time series data
twtxt
Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
resterm
Terminal API client for HTTP, GraphQL and gRPC. Plain .http files you can diff and version, with workflows, mocks, profiling, tracing, OpenAPI import,
ddcctl
DDC monitor controls (brightness) for Mac OSX command line
Mac Monitor
"The missing ProcMon for macOS": Mac Monitor records Endpoint Security events and displays them for analysis
jvmtop
Java monitoring for the command-line, profiler included
AMD Power Gadget
Power management, monitoring and VirtualSMC plugin for AMD processors
mon
mon(1) - Simple single-process process monitoring program written in C
caddy
Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS
yq
yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML, HCL and properties processor
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than plog — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
plog is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.