System Monitor
Show information and usage related to CPU, memory, power, network and temperatureVersions25
Eliminate Zombie Processes - March 20, 2026
- Replace all
exec()calls withexecFile()to avoid spawning shell processes - Remove
systeminformationandos-utilsdependencies (both spawn child processes internally) - Rearchitect menubar command to align with Raycast's menu-bar lifecycle (load → render → unload)
- Cache menubar data to disk via Raycast Cache API to prevent flicker between interval restarts
- Cache
system_profilerresults for battery condition/capacity (rarely changes, slow to fetch) - Poll for live updates only while the menu is open (2s interval via
useInterval) - Parallelize system data fetches with
Promise.allfor faster command execution - Fix
pmset -g logbuffer overflow in Power Monitor view
Fix Zombie Process Accumulation - March 20, 2026
- Add revalidation guards to prevent overlapping child process spawns in the menubar command
- Increase polling intervals (1s → 3s for stats, 3s → 5s for temperature) to reduce process spawn rate
Fix Stale Menubar Readings - March 16, 2026
- Enable background refresh for the menubar command so pinned stats stay up to date
Fix Temperature Polling - March 16, 2026
- Moved temperature sensor polling to a dedicated 3s interval to prevent stale readings
Added Menubar Pin-to-Display - March 4, 2026
- Click any stat in the menubar dropdown to pin it as persistent text next to the icon
- Supports CPU, temperature, memory, battery, network, and storage
- Click again to unpin
Added Temperature Monitoring - February 19, 2026
- Added temperature view under CPU section
- CPU temperature displayed in menu bar dropdown
New Additions & Chore - February 2, 2026
- Added customisable tags for menubar entries
- Universal tags
<BR>for line breaks<MODE>for display mode(toggles between "Free" and "Used")- Module specific tags can be seen by hovering over the preferences text box
- Made Loading tags use
…consistently instead of... - Updated free and used preference to be per-module for cpu, memory, disk and battery usage
- Removed displaymode field from menubar
Toggle Display Mode + Modernize + Add README - January 19, 2026
- Add a preference to toggle between free and used display modes for CPU, Memory and more (ref: Issue #24612).
- Modernize extension to use latest Raycast configuration.
- Add README.md.
New Additions - August 5, 2025
- Add a new preference option for the
Menubar System Monitorcommand to customize the menu bar icon.
Improvements - June 4, 2025
- Improve the script to ensure it waits for the Activity Monitor to open before clicking the radio button
Improvements - March 17, 2025
- Improve the
onAction()so it can open the Activity Monitor directly without selecting a tab
New Additions - March 11, 2025
- Add a new menubar feature to display system monitor information in the menubar
Update - March 3, 2025
- Update the action to open the corresponding tab in the System Monitor
Fix - January 2, 2025
- Fix issue when showing battery level on Intel-based Macs
Chore - November 24, 2024
- Fixed wording in description
Fix - August 12, 2024
- Fix issue when showing processes that consume more than 9Gb of RAM
Update & New Additions - April 26, 2024
- Update dependencies and
package.jsonfile structure to follow the latest version from Raycast - Overall code improvements
- Add Battery Temperature
New Additions - February 9, 2024
- Add new System Info panel
- Update screenshots
- Use default internal Raycast icons
- Improve code readability
Update - October 17, 2023
- Improve performance
Update - August 7, 2023
- Added preference to select active tab
Update - June 14, 2023
- Added better wording for the battery charge status
Update - June 12, 2023
- Added Time on Battery
New Action - May 31, 2023
- Added Open Activity Monitor action
New Additions - July 12, 2022
- Updated CPU monitor to show load average and process list of highest CPU consumption
- Updated memory monitor to show Disk Usage and process list of highest RAM consumption
- Added network monitor
- Added power monitor
Update - June 20, 2022
- Updated Raycast API to 1.36.0
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