● v1.5 — Windows · Linux · macOS (Apple Silicon) · MIT License

Your workstation deserves better than Task Manager.

Dofek is a system monitor built for developers running AI workloads — available as a TUI and a native desktop app. VRAM per process. Inference detection. Candlestick CPU charts.

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TUI + Desktop·process management·built with Rust
D:\Development\dofek\target\release\dofek.exe
CPU10.2%
GPU22.6%
VRAM7056MB
MEM22.5%
●ollama — inferring
CANDLE CPU 10.2% 60s
PROCESSES — sort: MEM
CPU
GPU
Util
0%
VRAM
7GB
MEM
Used
22%
NET
↓ 0 B/s
↑ 0 B/s

Most system monitors were designed before LLMs ran locally. They treat GPU as an afterthought and VRAM as a footnote. Dofek is built for what your workstation actually does today.

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Variance, not just averages

Candlestick charts show CPU min/max/mean per time slot. Bursty spikes are visible. Steady load looks different from jittery load. No other monitor shows you this.

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VRAM per process

The column Windows Task Manager doesn't have. See exactly which process is consuming your GPU memory — ollama, python, your game, your renderer — at a glance.

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AI workload detection

Automatic inference/loading/idle classification for AI processes. Know whether ollama is actively generating, loading a model, or sitting idle — without checking logs.

CPU MONITORING

See variance,
not just averages.

Every other monitor draws a smooth line and calls it a CPU chart. Dofek draws candlesticks — the same visual language traders use to read market volatility. Each bar shows the full min/max range and interquartile spread for that time window.

  • Wick spans the full min/max range per 500ms slot
  • Body shows the P25–P75 interquartile spread
  • Thick tick marks the mean value
  • Threshold lines at 80% (warn) and 90% (critical)
  • Switchable to area chart for GPU, MEM, and NET
CANDLE 10.2% AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
PROCESS INTELLIGENCE

Your processes,
managed.

Tag processes as AI, DEV, or WATCH. Search, filter, group, and kill — all without leaving Dofek. Auto-detects known AI runtimes and dev tools, and lets you extend the list in your config.

  • ● AI — ollama, python, LM Studio, any VRAM consumer
  • ■ DEV — VS Code, browsers, terminals, build tools
  • ★ WATCH — your own pipeline processes, user-defined
  • / live search — type to filter by name instantly
  • t tree view — group by name with aggregate CPU/MEM/VRAM, expand to see individual PIDs
  • x kill — terminate single processes or entire groups, with confirmation
  • Filter tabs narrow the table without losing sort order
PROCESSES
NAMECPU%MEMVRAMSTATUS
PLUGINS
● OLLAMA llama3:8b idle
→ Build your own plugin
GPU MONITORING

Multi-GPU,
fully resolved.

Aggregate stats across all your GPUs in the ALL view, then drill into any individual card. The combined VRAM bar shows each device's share side-by-side. The main chart overlays both GPU utilization curves simultaneously.

  • Aggregated Util / VRAM / Temp / Power across all GPUs
  • Per-GPU tabs for individual device breakdown
  • Dual-color VRAM bar shows per-GPU contribution
  • Max temperature and summed power across all devices
  • GPU overlay on the main chart shows both curves
GPU
DESKTOP APP

Prefer a window?
We built that too.

The desktop edition is a Tauri-powered native app with the same real-time data engine and trading-terminal aesthetic. Mouse interaction, resizable panes, and a windowed layout that sits alongside your other tools.

  • Resizable chart and watchlist panes via drag handle
  • Candlestick and horizon chart modes with tab switching
  • Process search, tree view, click-to-select, kill with confirmation
  • Full keyboard shortcut support (same bindings as TUI)
  • Lightweight — Tauri, not Electron. Small binary, low overhead
Dofek — system monitor
Dofek desktop GUI
PLUGIN ECOSYSTEM

The viral engine.
Build what Dofek doesn't ship.

Any process that writes JSON to stdout can be a Dofek plugin. One config line, and your plugin gets a live widget in the dock, process annotations in the watchlist, and metrics in the ticker bar.

# dofek.toml — one entry per plugin [[plugins]] name = "ollama" command = "dofek-ollama" args = ["--host", "http://localhost:11434"] # That's it. Dofek spawns it, polls it, restarts it on crash.
dofek-ollama official · v0.1

Loaded models, inference state, process annotations. See which model is running and what it's doing.

Download binary · README

dofek-docker official · v0.1

Running containers, image names, process annotations. Your compose stack at a glance.

Download binary · README

dofek-net-ping official · v0.1

Latency to a remote host, sampled between polls. Live ms / avg / loss in the dock and a latency pill in the ticker.

Download binary · README

build your own any language

Python, Rust, Node, Go — read the plugin dev guide and build one in under 50 lines.

QUICK START

Up in three steps.

01 — INSTALL
Get the binary
macOS (Apple Silicon) — install via Homebrew tap. Both the CLI and the desktop GUI are published. Windows / Linux — grab the installer from GitHub Releases (.msi, .deb, .rpm, or .AppImage). On macOS the unsigned .app may show "Dofek.app is damaged" on first launch — strip the quarantine flag once with xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Dofek.app.
# macOS — CLI bundle (TUI + plugins)
brew install AsafSaar/dofek/dofek

# macOS — desktop GUI app
brew install --cask AsafSaar/dofek/dofek
02 — RUN
Launch Dofek
Run the TUI from any terminal, or launch the desktop app. NVIDIA GPU metrics work automatically via NVML — no extra setup needed.
# TUI (terminal)
dofek-tui
# Desktop app — launch from /Applications or:
open -a Dofek
03 — OPTIONAL
CPU temperature on Windows
Run LibreHardwareMonitor as admin with the web server on port 8085. Dofek auto-detects it and pulls CPU temperature and power draw — data that sysinfo can't provide on Windows without elevation. Also serves as GPU fallback for non-NVIDIA systems. Linux skips this step entirely — CPU temps come straight from /sys/class/hwmon. On macOS, CPU temp/power and GPU/VRAM panels show N/A in v1.5 — Apple Silicon SMC and Metal integration are tracked for a future release.
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THE DEVELOPER
AS
Asaf Saar
DEVELOPER · PRODUCT BUILDER
AI TOOLING
LinkedIn GitHub

Asaf spends most of his time at the intersection of systems, AI tooling, and developer experience. When local LLMs became serious — models loading into VRAM, inference running in the background, GPU memory becoming a first-class concern — he found himself staring at Task Manager and coming up empty. The tool for this moment simply didn't exist.

Dofek is the result. Built in Rust because performance isn't optional for a monitor, designed around trading terminal principles because developers making real-time decisions deserve the same visual language as traders making real-time ones. Asaf believes the best developer tools are opinionated, visually sharp, and built by people who were frustrated enough to stop waiting for someone else to do it.