iStat Menus 7
What’s new? Everything. iStat Menus 7 is a full reboot, sporting an all-new design with hundreds of big and small improvements.
New menu bar modes, including stacked labels and values. New menu bar items, like Wi-Fi name, and GPU frames per second. Frequency monitoring and additional sensors on Apple Silicon Macs. More theme options and menu background colors. Fan speeds can now ramp up gradually with complete control over the speed curve.
The time menu has 7-day and 14-day rolling calendar modes. Combined mode has been drastically overhauled, and can now display any item in the menu bar, with unique settings, and has more available menu sections in the dropdown menu.
I like the new design, the additional configurability, and the extra information that it shows, e.g. for disk and processor usage. (It appears that my Mac is almost constantly using both efficiency cores.) It’s a bargain at $11.99 or $9.99 to upgrade. It’s also on Setapp.
I hope that a future version will add support for recording process samples directly from the menu, as that would free me from having to leave an Activity Monitor window open at all times to quickly see what code is running when something weird happens.
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This is kinda cool. The new @bjango iStat Menus v7 can show a flag where your VPN is connected to.
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Maybe Vitals would do what you're looking for? https://github.com/hmarr/vitals
I love iStat menu 7, but for monitoring apps (live and retrospectively) and sample them when needed, I use App Tamer instead: https://www.stclairsoft.com/AppTamer/index.html
@Scott I don’t think Vitals can record samples.
@Corentin Thanks. I think what put me off App Tamer in the past is that there’s no way to fully turn off the taming feature. I just want to observe what’s happening, not put apps to sleep.
@Michael
> “ I think what put me off App Tamer in the past is that there’s no way to fully turn off the taming feature. ”
I’m pretty sure that’s possible. Because I remember setting it to monitor only a single (macOS service/) process that often caused 99% CPU usage issues, and leave all other processes alone…
@Michael ...also see: https://www.stclairsoft.com/AppTamer/faq.html#12
These seem to be "included" by default, so you'd need to manually reset/modify those to "do nothing", if that's what you want.
@Obra I think it’s possible in the sense that you can manually add lots of exclusions, but I don’t want to deal with that. I just want an off switch. Right now I have it set to be disabled when the Mac is plugged in and the battery is above 0% charge, which I guess covers everything so long as it’s not running on battery.
@Michael, there's a big blue button on the AppTamer menu item that allows you to turn off the taming features for a set amount of time. If you select "0 minutes", it's actually off indefinitely.
I actually leave it on and create exclusions through the menu directly as I see fit and I haven't had to do that for a lot of apps (e.g. video transcoding apps I leave running in the background for prolonged periods of time like Handbrake or Adobe Media Encoder).
