vpsmon
A tiny, single-binary web dashboard for monitoring a Linux VPS — CPU, memory, disk, and network — that uses about 5MB of RAM.
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Description
Most server monitoring stacks (Prometheus + Grafana, or a hosted SaaS dashboard) are overkill if you just want to glance at whether your one small VPS is healthy — they take real setup time and resources just to answer 'is my server okay right now.' vpsmon is built for exactly that smaller job: a single compiled program you drop onto a VPS that gives you a simple, password-protected web page showing CPU, memory, swap, disk, network, uptime, and process count, refreshing automatically every few seconds.
It ships as one Go binary with no external dependencies, uses roughly 5MB of RAM at idle, and installs via a one-line bash script (with an equally simple uninstall). Configuration is done through environment variables (listen address, username, password hash), and it includes Docker support for anyone who prefers running it in a container instead of directly on the host.
💬 Our review
The short version: if you run one or two small VPS instances and just want a quick, low-overhead 'is it alive and healthy' web page, vpsmon does exactly that and nothing more — which is the point, not a limitation.
Its entire value proposition is minimalism: a single ~5MB-RAM binary versus running a full Prometheus/Grafana stack (or paying for a hosted monitoring SaaS) just to watch CPU and memory on a small box is a genuinely reasonable trade for hobby projects, small self-hosted services, or budget VPS setups. The honest limitation is exactly that scope: there's no alerting, no historical graphs beyond the live auto-refresh, and no multi-server fleet view, so once you're managing more than a handful of servers or need alerting/history, you'll outgrow it and want a real observability stack instead.
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Open source, distribué en binaire Go unique.
Pros
Binaire Go unique, ~5MB de RAM, aucune dépendance externe
Installation en une ligne de commande
Interface web avec authentification, rafraîchissement auto toutes les 5s
Support Docker
Cons
Pas d'alerting ni d'historique au-delà du live
Pas de vue multi-serveurs/flotte
Licence non explicitement précisée dans le dépôt