Who uses psutil

psutil is among the top 100 most-downloaded packages on PyPI, with 330+ million downloads per month, 760,000+ GitHub repositories using it, and 15,000+ packages depending on it. The projects below are a small sample of notable software that depends on psutil.

See also Alternatives for related Python libraries and equivalents in other languages.

Infrastructure / automation

Project	Description	Stars	psutil usage
Home Assistant	Open source home automation platform		system monitor integration
Ansible	IT automation platform		system fact gathering
Apache Airflow	Workflow orchestration platform		process supervisor, unit testing
Celery	Distributed task queue		worker process monitoring, memleak detection
Salt	Infrastructure automation at scale		deep system data collection (grains)
Dask	Parallel computing with task scheduling		metrics dashboard, profiling
Ajenti	Web-based server administration panel		monitoring plugins, deep integration

AI / machine learning

Project	Description	Stars	psutil usage
TensorFlow	Open source machine learning framework by Google		unit tests
PyTorch	Tensors and dynamic neural networks with GPU acceleration		benchmark scripts
Ray	AI compute engine with distributed runtime		metrics dashboard
MLflow	AI/ML engineering platform		deep system monitoring integration

Developer tools

Project	Description	Stars	psutil usage
Sentry	Error tracking and performance monitoring		send telemetry metrics
Locust	Scalable load testing in Python		monitoring of the Locust process
Spyder	Scientific Python IDE		deep integration, UI stats, process management
psleak	Test framework to detect memory leaks in Python C extensions		heap process memory (heap_info())

System monitoring

Project	Description	Stars	psutil usage
Glances	System monitoring tool (top/htop alternative)		core dependency for all metrics
bpytop	Terminal resource monitor		core dependency for all metrics
auto-cpufreq	Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux		core dependency for CPU monitoring
GRR	Remote live forensics by Google		core dependency for system data collection
s-tui	Terminal CPU stress and monitoring utility		core dependency for metrics
asitop	Apple Silicon performance monitoring CLI		core dependency for system metrics
psdash	Web dashboard using psutil and Flask		core dependency for all metrics
dd-agent	Original monitoring agent by Datadog		system metrics collection
dd-trace-py	Python tracing and profiling library		system metrics collection

How this list was compiled

• GitHub dependency graph was used to identify packages and repositories that depend on psutil.

• GitHub code search with query “psutil in:readme language:Python”, sorted by stars, was used to find additional projects that mention psutil in their README.

• Each candidate was then manually verified by checking the project’s pyproject.toml, setup.py, setup.cfg or requirements.txt to confirm that psutil is an actual dependency (direct, build-time, or optional), not just a passing mention.

• Projects were excluded if they only mention psutil in documentation or examples without declaring it as a dependency.

• Star counts are pulled dynamically from shields.io badges.

• The final list was manually curated to include notable projects and meaningful usages of psutil across different areas of the Python ecosystem.