gotop is a lightweight terminal application that brings visual system monitoring directly to your command line. Written in Go, it displays real-time information about your system's resources including CPU usage, memory consumption, disk activity, and running processes in an interactive, top-like interface.

Key features include:

Real-time monitoring with live-updating graphs and statistics
Customizable layouts to arrange widgets according to your preferences
Multiple color schemes for different visual styles and terminal themes
Process management with mouse and keyboard controls for selecting and sorting processes
Cross-platform support for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows
GPU monitoring with NVIDIA support via the --nvidia flag
Remote monitoring capabilities to track metrics from remote machines
Flexible configuration through command-line arguments and configuration files

The interface provides an intuitive way to understand system performance at a glance, making it ideal for developers, system administrators, and anyone who needs quick access to resource information without leaving the terminal. Multiple installation methods are available including package managers for Arch, Homebrew, Nix, and others, or direct binary downloads.