No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
glances has 130K monthly downloads and 33K GitHub stars. Version 4.5.5 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of defusedxml, jinja2 and packaging. It is used by 3 tracked packages, including glancewatch, jupyter-glances-proxy and xmonitor.
GitHub topics include multi-platform, monitoring and system.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
93
Adoption
61
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
130,252
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
130,252
Stars
33,040
Stars per 1k downloads
253.66
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
•
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
4,188
Month daily avg
4,342
Momentum
-3.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
LGPL-3.0-only
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
•
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
23 days ago
Total releases
119
Releases/year
9.2
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
217
Monthly downloads
130,252
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
79
Issue Burden
2.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
8.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
12.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
2.6K
Windows
66
macOS
29
Python Versions
3.6
43.5%
998
3.11
27.9%
640
3.13
11.3%
260
3.10
9.1%
208
3.12
8.2%
188
Top Countries
1.
US
2.1K
US
2.
CA
78
CA
3.
NL
78
NL
4.
IT
40
IT
5.
IE
36
IE
6.
CN
34
CN
7.
DE
31
DE
8.
FR
30
FR
9.
BR
29
BR
10.
AU
28
AU
Dependencies
7
- defusedxml
- jinja2
- packaging
- psutil >=5.6.7
- pyinstrument >=5.1.2
- shtab
- windows-curses
41 optional dependencies
- batinfo[sensors]
- bernhard[export]
- chevron[action]
- clickhouse-connect[export]
- docker[containers]
- elasticsearch[export]
- fastapi[web]
- glances[all]
- graphitesender[export]
- ibmcloudant[export]
- influxdb[export]
- influxdb-client[export]
- influxdb3-python[export]
- kafka-python[export]
- mcp[mcp]
- nats-py[export]
- nvidia-ml-py[gpu]
- packaging[containers]
- paho-mqtt[export]
- pika[export]
- podman[containers]
- potsdb[export]
- prometheus-client[export]
- psycopg[export]
- pygal[graph]
- pylxd[containers]
- pymdstat[raid]
- pymongo[export]
- pysmart[smart]
- pysnmp-lextudio[snmp]
- python-dateutil[containers]
- python-jose[web]
- pyzmq[export]
- requests[cloud]
- requests[web]
- six[containers]
- sparklines[sparklines]
- statsd[export]
- uvicorn[web]
- wifi[wifi]
- zeroconf[browser]
Used By
3
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
LGPL-3.0-only
First Release
August 10, 2013
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
4.5.5
Total Releases
119
Contributors
217
Open PRs
8
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh