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Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go

Details

External ID
49437361
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Aug. 25, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
63
Upvotes percentile
0.8844086021505376
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.

Enrichment

Theme
systems tools and desktop utilities
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Observability & eval
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
system monitor for linux vps
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes Lightweight Linux system monitors in Go are standard utility projects that read system metrics from `/proc` and `/sys` and render them in a TUI or lightweight dashboard.

Discussion

19 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Prometheus/Grafana/Alloy/Tempo stack, Bezel, PocketBase, Kitaso (macOS app)

Concerns raised: Security risk of curl | sudo bash installation method, Uninstallation not possible if repository goes offline, Password authentication not working, Lacks 99% of Prometheus capabilities

Feature requests: Ability to send metrics to Prometheus or make available for scraping, Password field for authentication

Competitors

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Attention rank: #85 of 693 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 298 days after the earliest competitor.

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