GPU & System Monitor for VS Code

A real-time system monitoring extension for Visual Studio Code that displays GPU, CPU, RAM, and Disk metrics directly in the sidebar.

Designed for GPU servers, ML workloads, and Remote-SSH development.

Features

GPU Monitoring

• NVIDIA GPU support via NVML
• Multi-GPU selector
• MIG-aware (instances shown as separate devices)
• GPU utilization, VRAM usage, temperature, and power

System Monitoring

• CPU usage
• RAM usage
• Disk I/O (read + write)
• Disk space (used / total)

UI & UX

• Live charts in the VS Code sidebar
• Non-intrusive alert banner (no popups, no focus stealing)
• Status bar GPU usage indicator
• GPU selection persists across reloads
• Graceful fallback when no GPU is detected

Integrations

• Optional Prometheus metrics endpoint (disabled by default)
• Works seamlessly over Remote-SSH

Requirements

Minimum

• VS Code 1.80+
• Python 3.8+

NVIDIA GPU support

• NVIDIA drivers installed
• NVML available
• Python packages:

  pip install nvidia-ml-py psutil