Run System Diagnostics In Activity Monitor On Mac - Apple Support

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Activity Monitor User Guide

• Welcome
• View information about processes
• View CPU activity
• View GPU activity
• View memory usage
• View energy consumption
• View disk activity
• View network activity
• View cache activity
• Run system diagnostics
• Quit a process
• Change how often information is updated
• Check if your Mac needs more RAM
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Activity Monitor can collect information about the status of your Mac in a system diagnostics report. You can save the system diagnostics report and send it to Apple Support.

Open Activity Monitor for me

In the Activity Monitor app on your Mac, click , then choose one of the following:

• Sample Process: Creates a report on a selected process over a period of 3 seconds.

• Spindump: Creates a report for unresponsive apps that were terminated using force quit.

• System Diagnostics: Creates a report based on different logs on your Mac.

• Spotlight Diagnostics: Creates a report based on all the processes running on your Mac.

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