klattimer/SystemDashboard

System Dashboard

This project has grown out of a need to have something which I can run on my servers without needing infrastructure or anything, which allows me to monitor stuff going on, on that system, I'm not too bothered about aggregation or logging, in this project, I simply want to get information about the current state, periodically, and display it in a way which I can survey at a glance.

It could be extended to add other features such as SNMP support and other such things, but it's really a simple tool which means instead of sshing into the system, typing a bunch of commands and making sure things are OK, instead I can go to a web page and see everything neatly organised and readable.

I tried using pydash (https://gitlab.com/k3oni/pydash) to monitor my servers, it wasn't very well designed, the CSS was terrible and full of javascript errors, I first looked at fixing PyDash, but that seemed utterly pointless. So I spent a couple of days writing SystemDashboard.

Installation

SystemDashboard$ virtualenv -p python3 venv
SystemDashboard$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv) SystemDashboard$ pip install -r requirements.txt
(venv) SystemDashboard$ python app.py

Features

"So what does it do?" "That's the beauty of it, it doesn't /DO/ anything"

Monitor current CPU usage on each core
Monitor disk usage
Monitor disk read writes
Monitor network traffic
Monitor top processes
Monitor listening processes and connections
Monitor logged in users
Monitor syslog (this is an incomplete feature right now, eventually you'll be able to select the log file)
Monitor raid rebuild status
Monitor raid disk status
Monitor sensor readings for temperature
Monitor disk temperature
Radar readout of local pingable addresses, helpful to see dropoffs.

Planned features

SMART monitoring for the disks
Network interface information
System Warnings/Errors as popups
An arbitrary interface for charts and tables
A template driven UI, at present it's mostly static
Reboot and shutdown the system, logging that it is occurring and having a UI which can cope with it offlining
A small, efficient javascript library to make it easy to add new modules directly via templates and python code
Zeroconf to announce itself, and a way of seeing "other" systems which are available to view.
Mount and unmount disks