Quick Usage of the command-line version

To use Joular Core, just run the command joularcore (on Linux or macOS), or joularcore.exe (on Windows).

On Intel or AMD PC/servers on Linux, Joular Core uses Intel’s RAPL through the Linux powercap sysfs, and therefore requires root/sudo access on the latest Linux kernels (5.10 and newer): sudo joularcore. An alternative is to change the permissions on the RAPL powercap files to provide read access to all. Check this issue in our GitHub on the matter. This is a limitation for all power monitoring tools on Linux using RAPL, and not specific to Joular Core.

On macOS, you also need to run Joular Core with elevated access (thus sudo): sudo joularcore.

On Windows, just run joularcore.exe.

On Raspberry Pi devices with Linux, just run joularcore.

By default, the software will show the power consumption of the CPU, GPU, total power, and CPU utilization.

To monitor a specific application, just run PowerJoular with the -a appName parameter, and a specific process with the -p PID. PowerJoular is a powerful tool with many functionalities that can be accessed using specific parameters. Check the Command Line Options page for the detailed list.