There's a `postgres` process on my Mac that has been running for 15 days. I never started it, and quitting it in Activity Monitor didn't help: it came straight back.
Activity Monitor shows a name and a number, and that's where it stops. Vitals 1.9 shows the rest.
AI assistants already work on my Mac. They start dev servers, run builds, and when something is slow, they try to find out why.
All they see is a thousand process names, so they guess. And when they clean up, they can't tell a dev server I forgot last week from the database I'm working in.
Activity Monitor lists a thousand processes, a hundred of them called Google Chrome Helper. Vitals adds every helper to the app that launched it, so you see 60 apps instead of 1,000 processes, each with one figure for memory, CPU, energy, disk and network. It keeps 30 days of history, alerts you when an app misbehaves, finds forgotten dev servers, and shows temperatures, fans and battery. Every readout can sit in your menu bar, arranged your way. Pay once. No subscription, no account.
