PluginStatsSerial Monitor installs statistics
By Microsoft (223 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Visualization
Send and receive text from serial ports.
Serial Monitor has 2,141,885 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #333 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 3.6 out of 5 from 38 ratings.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
Rating: 3.63 / 5 from 38 ratings
About Serial Monitor
Serial Monitor
The Serial Monitor extension provides a serial monitor to view output from as well as send messages to serial ports. This is often useful when testing or debugging programs on embedded devices.
Get Started
To get started with this extension, you should open the Serial Monitor by completing the following steps:
1. Open the Panel by clicking Terminal -> New Terminal. 2. You should see the Serial Monitor terminal. 3. Open it up and start using it!
Feedback
We appreciate any feedback you have to help improve this extension. To submit feedback, please create an issue on our GitHub page.
Documentation
The Serial Monitor extension and the general embedded support for Visual Studio Code are documented here.
Data/Telemetry
This extension collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Collection of telemetry is controlled via the same setting provided by Visual Studio Code: "telemetry.enableTelemetry". Read our privacy statement to learn more.
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- embedded
- monitor
- port
- serial
Where Serial Monitor sits in the listing
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Charts
Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark
Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Ranking history
Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.
Recent observations
Full history (3)Similar VS Code Marketplace Visualization plugins
Data source
Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.vscode-serial-monitor. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.