What is this?
Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform with a friendly web interface. It tracks historical metrics and Docker container stats, sends alerts, and is ready to use out of the box.
Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform with a friendly web interface. It tracks historical metrics and Docker container stats, sends alerts, and is ready to use out of the box.Is it a single app, or something I have to install on every server I want to watch?It has two components: a hub — a web application built on PocketBase that hosts the dashboard — and an agent that runs on each system you want to monitor and reports metrics to the hub.
It has two components: a hub — a web application built on PocketBase that hosts the dashboard — and an agent that runs on each system you want to monitor and reports metrics to the hub.How do I get it running?Follow the quick start guide at beszel.dev. Setup needs little manual configuration, and you should be up and running in a few minutes.
Follow the quick start guide at beszel.dev. Setup needs little manual configuration, and you should be up and running in a few minutes.Do all of these metrics work on any OS?Most are host-wide, but some sensors are Linux-specific — fan speed, for example, is read via /sys/class/hwmon on Linux only.
Most are host-wide, but some sensors are Linux-specific — fan speed, for example, is read via /sys/class/hwmon on Linux only.Is it really lighter than other monitoring tools?That is the pitch: the README claims it is smaller and less resource-intensive than leading solutions, with simple configuration and out-of-the-box readiness as design goals.
That is the pitch: the README claims it is smaller and less resource-intensive than leading solutions, with simple configuration and out-of-the-box readiness as design goals.Do my server metrics have to leave my machines?No external service is involved: agents on your machines report to your own hub, and backups can go to local disk or your own S3-compatible storage.
No external service is involved: agents on your machines report to your own hub, and backups can go to local disk or your own S3-compatible storage.Does it understand ZFS?Yes — it tracks ZFS pool capacity, usage, health, I/O throughput, scrub status and per-dataset usage, and memory stats include the ZFS ARC cache.
Yes — it tracks ZFS pool capacity, usage, health, I/O throughput, scrub status and per-dataset usage, and memory stats include the ZFS ARC cache.What are similar projects?prometheus, cadvisor, sampler, telegraf, nodelume, nightingale, openobserve, nezha
prometheus, cadvisor, sampler, telegraf, nodelume, nightingale, openobserve, nezhaWhich topics is it in?alerting, system-monitor, metrics, homelab, lightweight, oauth, sysadmin, observability, dashboard, monitoring, devops, go
alerting, system-monitor, metrics, homelab, lightweight, oauth, sysadmin, observability, dashboard, monitoring, devops, go