#3548·glances

Enable/Disable plugin on-the-fly through API.

Author: SuppliedOrangeCreated May 6, 2026Updated Sep 6, 2026
Labelsnew featureinactive

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I was looking to disable some plugins automatically when CPU usage reaches a certain threshold. I couldn't find documentation for this in your python lib or rest api.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like for there to be a POST endpoint and/or python function that lets us disable certain plugins whenever required. It simply needs to not run on future ticks until re-enabled.

Describe alternatives you've considered My current solution is just stopping the current glances -w proccess and restarting with glances -w --disable-process since I have measured that to be the worst impacts on CPU.