bmon is a monitoring and debugging tool to capture networking related statistics and prepare them visually in a human friendly way. It features various output methods including an interactive curses user interface and a programmable text output for scripting.
git clone https://github.com/Jafaral/bmon.git
cd bmon
apt-get install build-essential make libconfuse-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-route-3-dev libncurses-dev pkg-config dh-autoreconf
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
bmon
git clone https://github.com/Jafaral/bmon.git
cd bmon
yum install make libconfuse-devel libnl3-devel libnl-route3-devel ncurses-devel
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
bmon
yum install bmon
dnf install bmon
brew install bmon
Install libconfuse
wget https://github.com/martinh/libconfuse/releases/download/v2.8/confuse-2.8.zip
unzip confuse-2.8.zip && cd confuse-2.8
PATH=/usr/local/opt/gettext/bin:$PATH ./configure
make
make install
Install bmon
git clone https://github.com/Jafaral/bmon.git
cd bmon
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
bmon
- out_curses: use xcalloc instead of a fixed buffer by @NachiP in #54
- Avoid trying to include <values.h> on Android by @fornwall in #55
- Allow numeric colors in bmonrc by @afh in #62
- Fix typographical errors by @afh in #63
- curses: Fix seperator lines by @afh in #64
- curses: Add CTRL-N/CTRL-P for next/previous element by @afh in #65
- Add package installation instructions for Fedora/CentOS by @carlwgeorge in #78
- Fix build in FreeBSD/DragonflyBSD by @farrokhi in #76
- Update to autoconf of the common era by @Jafaral in #116
- fix segfault on element removal by @dcaratti in #102
- ci: add GitHub Actions builds for Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD by @Jafaral in #118
- ci: enable -Werror for compiler warnings by @Jafaral in #119
- feat: Add IPv4/IPv6 addresses to additional info by @csiltala in #117
- feat: Add configure option to disable IPv6 in netlink module by @csiltala in #121
- fix: Fix memory leaks in module_set() by @csiltala in #122
- fix: Convert usage of strdup/free to xstrdup/xfree by @csiltala in #124
- feat: Add ability to toggle TC elements by @csiltala in #120
- curses: render graphs with Braille cells by @crgr in #114
- display filters for TC ingress and egress by @dcaratti in #100
- Fix compile issue in OpenBSD by @FlyingHacker in #92
- Fix spelling and grammar in docs and comments by @Jafaral in #125
- Add support for JSON output by @Jafaral in #126
- Remove the 'Really quit' dialog and just exit cleanly by @graysky2 in #113
To run bmon in the default curses mode:
bmon
There are many other options available and full help is provided via:
bmon --help
Various authors, see git commit log.
Copyright (c) 2001-2016 Thomas Graf [email protected]
Copyright (c) 2013 Red Hat, Inc.
Copyright (c) 2026 Architecture Technology Corporation
Please see the LICENSE.BSD and LICENSE.MIT files for additional details.