Monitor your web-based servers with Linux Dash and Cockpit
More and more computer users are operating a cloud-based server, which they manage from a home or local network. A well-configured cloud-hosted server that is equipped with the right Linux distribution hardly requires any work; however, an occasional glance at the system's status is compulsory.
The big players in the monitoring industry, such as Nagios, Icinga, or Munin, support monitoring for complex IT infrastructures – and are correspondingly complex to set up. But a heavy-hitting monitoring solution is overkill for a small home server – or for the many Raspberry Pi servers that now populate many home networks. If you are looking for monitoring on a small and intimate scale, the PHP-based tool known as Linux Dash [1] might be a better choice.
Linux Dash
Linux Dash uses PHP and only needs a single web server – Apache in the simplest case, although Nginx [2] also works. You will also need Node.js [3] – a web application platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime.
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