Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go

mosselman•about 2 hours ago

Cool. I went another way for monitoring my servers and built a local macOS app instead of installing the monitoring dashboard on the server itself.

https://kitaso.app/

It monitors any server you add to it and it can install a daemon that collects metrics for when you are offline. I keep it running to monitor our servers.

NSUserDefaults•about 4 hours ago

How is this better than Prometheus?

freitzzz•about 3 hours ago

If I were to bet this is more a learning experience rather than trying to beat a product. Even better that this was done without AI (by the looks of it).

I’ve also done something similar in Go too, and several people used it, mostly because it’s easy to install/use and is lightweight.

https://github.com/joaomagfreitas/zero-monitor

ygagaga•about 3 hours ago

Cool project! I like design of the dashboards a lot. Will try it out

ygagaga•about 3 hours ago

Not better - different purpose. Its super lightweight, easy to install, simple for one server

ErroneousBosh•about 1 hour ago

It's a single git repository that compiles to a single binary that does really basic monitoring without any dicking about.

It lacks about 99% of the things that Prometheus can do, which is probably what you want for simple up/down healthy/not-healthy indication on a single box.

nimbius•about 3 hours ago

"curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leodeim/vpsmon/main/instal... | sudo bash"

lol nope. i thought we all grew out of this crap?

dang•about 3 hours ago

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

nimbius•about 3 hours ago

https://tferdinand.net/en/why-curl-bash-is-a-dangerous-bad-h...

https://www.lesinskis.com/dont-pipe-curl-into-bash.html

https://www.cyberhub.blog/article/25147-why-curl-pipe-bash-i...

oh hey lets not forget this one too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860669

ErroneousBosh•about 1 hour ago

That's nice but you can also just look at the linked github repo and inspect install.sh for yourself. It's pretty straightforward. It builds the binary for your monitoring software from the git repo, based on the architecture you're on, and if required sets up a systemd unit to kick it off on boot.

It's quite nice.

ygagaga•about 3 hours ago

just check the code before running :)

Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go

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