Health Monitor
(Updated: )CleanMyMac performs a wide range of cleaning, maintenance, and protection tasks, some of which require background system information and extended access to macOS. Because background processes may sometimes appear suspicious, MacPaw provides transparency about how these components work.
Besides the Agent helper tool and Updater, CleanMyMac uses another background item, Health Monitor. It helps track important system activity and notify you about potential issues affecting your Mac. The process subscribes to macOS system notifications and forwards relevant health and status information to CleanMyMac.
For Health Monitor to run and provide all its data correctly and consistently, allow CleanMyMac background items in macOS. Also, if you're using the App Store edition of CleanMyMac, turn on the Menu and keep it running at all times.
Health Monitor powers multiple indicators and tools in the CleanMyMac Menu, including:
- Memory usage and memory-intensive apps
- Available disk space
- Battery status and battery-intensive apps
- Processor load and processor-intensive apps
- Network usage statistics and current transfer speed
- Unresponsive applications
- Trash status
CleanMyMac also uses Health Monitor for the following tasks:
Real-time malware monitoring: Health Monitor informs CleanMyMac about changes on your Mac and helps trigger malware checks for newly added or modified items.
Background malware scanning: CleanMyMac periodically performs automatic malware checks in the background to help identify threats that may have been missed previously. These checks don't replace full malware scans.
Health and optimization notifications: CleanMyMac monitors important system indicators and notifies you about issues such as low disk space, intensive memory usage, or unresponsive apps. It can also suggest uninstalling apps completely when you move them to the Trash.
Disk space calculations: Health Monitor helps CleanMyMac calculate available disk space and display updated storage information after cleanup tasks.
Browser Care: Health Monitor provides the data Browser Care shows about how much memory and processor power Chrome uses.
Health Monitor runs in the background and has little impact on performance or battery life. However, resource usage may temporarily increase when large amounts of data are moved to the Trash, as CleanMyMac recalculates storage information.
