Hi friends, Not sure whether this little tool could be of use to anyone here, but I thought it might be interesting to share.

I was running into problems on my VPS due to high-memory usage, which led to my email server going down with all the consequences that come with it. I tried using Grafana Agent to monitor the server’s state, but with 2GB memory, the tool’s footprint was creating more problems than anything else, so I reinvented my own, square, low-memory footprint, wheels.

Cheers everyone.

  • azdle@news.idlestate.org
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    1 年前

    Hey, this might be something I’m interested in, but I’m not sure because there aren’t many details in your readme.

    Some questions I’d suggest you answer in the readme:

    [Edit: after looking through the code quickly, some of my questions probably don’t male sense because this seems to be an alerting style monitoring tool, not a observability style monitoring tool. Answering my own questions for others that are curious:]

    What does it monitor?

    [Disk space and CPU use]

    What is the interface? Web? It does compare itself to grafana, so maybe. TUI? Maybe that’s what makes it more light weight?

    [It doesn’t have one, it sends telegram messages when alarm thresholds(?) are hit.]

    Does it only work on Debian? If not, are there deps that are required that are installed as dependencies of the deb?

    [Looks like it should work anywhere, the ‘watchers’ use the nix crate and read procfs, so I assume that means it should work anywhere without depending on anything besides the Linux kernel.]

    Is there history or is it real time only?

    [Realtime only, well I guess there’s the telegram history.]

    What does it look like? (Honestly, a screenshot could possibly answer most of these questions and a whole lot more.)

    [It doesn’t look like anything. There’s no screenshot because there’s nothing to screenshot.]

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      Hey, thanks a lot for the feedback, I did rush the documentation bit…

      I wanted the configuration to serve as documentation to explain some of the points above, but that’s not clear given the readme.

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      Ahah yes I remember your answer to one other post few days ago. Tbf disk usage was a problem for me so I had my reasons to throw that in there. That plus this process sleeps 99% of the time

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    Looks like a cool project. I might contribute.

    Btw: Do you really need to use the nightly compiler?