Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go
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HN · launched Aug 25, 2026 · 63 upvotes (top 12%) · 0 views
Niche: web and application performance monitoring tools · 66 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1792 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #182 of 1793 (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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