[HN Gopher] Show HN: Appstat - Process Monitor for Windows
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       Show HN: Appstat - Process Monitor for Windows
        
       Hey HN, I made a Windows process monitor for app developers and
       advanced end users. I wanted a taskmgr system-level graph view per
       app. Windows procmon, while capable, has always been tedious to set
       up (esp. if not used often). That's pretty much the whole idea
       behind the app--to simplify app-level monitoring, to make it easy.
       I hope some of you find it useful!
        
       Author : pragmar
       Score  : 65 points
       Date   : 2025-03-04 15:24 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (pragmar.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (pragmar.com)
        
       | antithesis-nl wrote:
       | So, yeah: I installed this, and was impressed, just because it's
       | an .appx package. I mean, how do you even create _those_?
       | 
       | Other than that: it did not immediately crypto-lock my laptop
       | and/or ramp up my GPU mining Fuhrercoins, so that was good too.
       | 
       | Other than that: I did not really see any metrics worth of
       | attention, so I uninstalled the app again, which seemed to work
       | fine as well.
       | 
       | Thrilling stuff, I know...
        
       | GordonS wrote:
       | I usually lean on Resource Monitor when I need this kind of info,
       | but it's clunky - so this looks useful!
        
       | zerr wrote:
       | > Native WinUI-fast startup, light operation
       | 
       | Did anyone notice the Windows Calc app became quite slow to
       | startup recently? It takes 2+ seconds to transform from the empty
       | window with a calc icon to the actual calculator UI.
       | 
       | I should get Win7 calc.
        
       | Daunk wrote:
       | What is the best, GUI, process monitor for Linux?
        
         | scarfaceneo wrote:
         | They're all kind of lacking imo compared to btop.
         | 
         | https://flathub.org/apps/io.missioncenter.MissionCenter is a
         | good option though
        
       | hassleblad23 wrote:
       | This looks pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!
        
       | WhereIsTheTruth wrote:
       | For advanced end users? why would they ditch:
       | https://systeminformer.sourceforge.io/ ?
        
       | dbacar wrote:
       | procmon and process explorer from sysinternals are really good.
       | and there is performance counters.
        
       | pipes wrote:
       | Looks great. Thanks. One thing, maybe make it clear that it's
       | free? I went looking for pricing especially when I saw the
       | support link at the top.
        
         | pragmar wrote:
         | I realize now that the "Support" link is ambiguous. The
         | price/free issue I'll think about how to make that clear, it's
         | a good point. Going to wait for traffic to subside before
         | making updates, but noted. Thanks
        
       | noitpmeder wrote:
       | As an alternative, I use the free community-edition netdata --
       | love it at my job, and it works right out of the box on my
       | personal windows and linux machines.
       | 
       | https://www.netdata.cloud/pricing/
       | 
       | (don't let the `.cloud` scare you off, they have a 100% free and
       | functional local-only install)
       | 
       | It's insanely powerful and with some configuration can persist
       | the metrics in a local database.
        
       | fraXis wrote:
       | Nice job! I love the clean interface. Is this written in C#?
        
         | pragmar wrote:
         | Thanks, yeah it is C#/.net9 and WinUI3. I started with C#/WPF,
         | but wanted to get it on the Windows Store and couldn't figure
         | out that would work with WPF.
        
       | rkagerer wrote:
       | Looks interesting, thanks! Another one I like that hasn't been
       | mentioned elsewhere in this thread is Process Hacker.
        
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