lntop

lntop is an interactive text-mode viewer for your Lightning node, built in the spirit of the Unix top command. It runs in a terminal and gives a live, continuously updating view of your channels and what they are doing.

The appeal is immediacy. Rather than loading a web dashboard, you SSH into your MyNode, run one command, and watch your node: channels and their local and remote balances, which peers are online, capacity distribution, and payment and forwarding activity as it happens. Navigation is keyboard-driven, so you can move through channels and drill into individual ones without leaving the keyboard.

Because it is a terminal application it works well over a slow or remote connection, and it is a natural companion to a maintenance session — keep it open in one pane while you make changes in another and see the effect immediately.