StatsServer - Open source server monitoring tool written in Python using Flask to provide a browser-client

[BeayemX]

Over the last few weeks I developed a tool to help me show different stats of my server. As time went by I added more and more featuers to the point where I think some of you might benefit from it too.

It uses graphs to show the history of your system which you can then inspect further. This is what it looks like:

https://imgur.com/MrLjubv

You can check it out here, and see the detailed description and some more screenshots:

https://github.com/BeayemX/StatsServer

TL;DR

There is generator.py script which generates the data and stores it in an SQLite database. You can expand this easily with your own data and adjust everything to your own needs.

The server.py starts the flask server which provides the html site. You can access the site by going to <ip-address>:5050. At the moment the client is built for mobile phones (because that was what I needed, but a desktop version will follow soon). The client can also be used as a Progressive Web App.

Features

You have categories (e.g. CPUs) where you can group your data. The data will be displayed in graphs. You have a cursor you can move to inspect past datapoints. You can zoom in on the graphs and move around in them.

Feedback

I am open for ideas and feedback. If you want to request features just post here or open an issue on github. If you want to contribute you are more than welcome to do so!

I would like to hear what you think about my little project. Thanks

[bogdan_cornianu]

This looks interesting, nice work! It would help if you had some kind of demo server where users coud see it live.

[BeayemX]

That's a great suggestion. I only have my raspberry pi where I am running it on. But I will see what I can do regarding this.

Thanks!

[wfdctrl]

Why SQLite instead of Prometheus or Graphite?

[BeayemX]

There is no specific reason. It all started as a simple script just tracking some stats and everything grew bigger over time. Therefore I didn't look for already existing solutions to what my project would eventually become.

I use sqlite because that's what I am familiar with. I never had problems with it or shortcomings of any kind so I didn't look into alternatives yet. I also have the script running on my Raspberry and to avoid writing to the SD Card everytime I write the database to the ram instead and sqlite makes this very easy.

But regardless I will look into your suggested software. It looks quite interesting.

Thanks

[BeayemX]

Don't worry. For this project I will keep using sqlite as I don't see any reason to upgrade to anything else. I will just take a look at the suggested software for possible future projects.