GoblinWatching Your Mac
Watching Your Mac
The Overview and every tab that watches your Mac: CPU, memory, GPU, network, temperatures, battery, drives, dev servers and more. This section also explains how Goblin decides something is worth telling you about, and how to quiet it.
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The Overview and the main windowGoblin's main window and its Overview tab, card by card, with the status banner, Worth a Look, and how to choose which cards show and in what order.Health and alertsHow Goblin judges your Mac's health, every problem and alert it can raise with the exact point each one starts, and how to quiet the ones you don't need.CPUThe CPU tab shows how busy the processor is, core by core and over time, and lists every app and process by how much of it they use.MemoryThe Memory tab shows how much memory is in use, what kind, how hard macOS is working to find more, and which apps hold the most.GPUThe GPU tab shows how busy the graphics processor is, its memory, temperature and speed, today's peak, and which apps are using it.Network activityNetwork › Activity shows your download and upload speed, how much you've used, how good the connection is, your addresses, and which apps move the most data.ThermalsThe Temperatures & Fans page shows how hot each part of your Mac is, how fast the fans spin, whether macOS is slowing the Mac to cool it, and which apps make the heat.BatteryWhat the battery is doing, how long it will last, how healthy it is, what your charger delivers, and what a desktop Mac shows instead.Projects and dev serversSee every dev server and tool running in your project folders, which ports they hold, which are idle, and stop, restart or clean them up.Docker containersThe Containers page of the Projects tab lists every Docker container with its image, status, CPU, memory, network traffic and ports, and shows how much space Docker uses.The Tools tabComing in the next updateGoblin's one-click helpers on cards that work where they are: capture, display and sound controls, window tools, file tools, writing help and fix-its for things that get stuck.SoundPick your speakers and microphone, set their levels, see which apps are using the microphone, and turn individual apps up or down.Drive HealthCheck whether your drives report problems, how much of an SSD's rated life is used, and eject connected drives from the Overview or the menu bar.App Inspector and hover cardsRest the pointer on any app, process or project for a quick card, or open the App Inspector for its history, processes, storage, alerts and signature.Logs and crash reportsRead what an app, process, project or macOS has written to the system log, its own log files and its crash reports, with filters, search and a timeline.Export and shareSave a share card picture, copy the dashboard or a text summary of your Mac, or export every app and process as a CSV spreadsheet.