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System Monitor

Design study for a terminal-style system monitor: CPU, memory, network and process panes feeding one dashboard renderer. Architecture on this page — no live agent behind it yet.

Sole engineer — design stage

Architecture

System Monitor

Dashboard
- Single-view layout
- Terminal-style UI
- 2s refresh target
collects from
Monitors
- CPU - Usage & Cores
- Memory - Heap & Stack
- Network - Bandwidth & Latency
renders via
Output
- Process List
- Terminal Renderer

Arrows show connections; hover a node to trace its links

Engineering details

Designed around one terminal-shaped view instead of four separate tools
CPU pane specified with a per-core usage breakdown
Memory pane tracking heap and stack allocation
Network pane for bandwidth and latency
Process list with per-process resource consumption
Zero-dependency renderer as the design constraint — nothing is collecting metrics yet

The challenge

Reading a machine's health usually means four tools and a browser tab. This is the design for one terminal-shaped dashboard that pulls CPU, memory, network and process data into a single view.

What I built

Design stage, and labelled as such: what exists today is the component breakdown and data flow on this page. No agent is collecting metrics yet.

Have something in mind?

I'm open to backend and platform roles, contract or permanent. Based in the EU, available on-site in Belgium and the Netherlands or remotely worldwide.

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Architecture

Dashboard

Monitors

Output

The challenge

What I built

Have something in mind?

Architecture

Dashboard

Monitors

Output