I replaced Grafana+Prometheus with a Go binary and SSH for my VPSs
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I do fullstack dev for work and side projects and recently moved everything to a couple VPSs on hetzner. Great setup, low cost, but one thing kept bugging me, how do I know if something is down without manually sshing in all the time? I tried the grafana + prometheus stack but the configuration time and seeing it use more resources than my actual apps was rough. Tried some smaller solutions too but nothing felt right. So I said screw it and built exactly what I wanted.tori is a single go binary that runs on your server, reads host metrics from /proc and /sys, monitors containers via the docker socket (read-only), tails logs, and stores everything in sqlite with a 7 day retention. You define alert rules in a toml config and get notified via email or webhooks. The same binary runs on your local machine and connects over SSH via a TUI, no exposed ports, no HTTP server.https://github.com/thobiasn/tori-cliMIT licensed, happy to answer questions about the architecture or design choices :)
HN · launched Feb 18, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 43%) · 0 views
Niche: web and application performance monitoring tools · 66 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Launched 107 days after the earliest competitor.
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