#graph #monitoring #load #rrdtool #rocket-web #web-services #rrdgraph

nightly app steel-copper

Steel-Copper is a simple system monitoring tool which uses rrdgraph to generate graphs and rocket as web server

1 unstable release

0.1.0 Aug 9, 2020

#57 in #rocket-web

MIT/Apache

18KB
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Steel-Copper

Simple system monitoring using graphs

Steel-Copper is a web-server which renders rrd database files to graphs using rrdtool.

Screenshot

Screenshot of monitoring website with multiple graphs

Usage

After starting the steel-copper binary, the integrated web server starts on port 8000. If you want to modify startup parameter (TCP port, etc.), you have multiple options:

Dependencies

  • collectd service has to be installed and running to create/update periodic sample databases (rrd database files).
  • rrdgraph binary is required to render the graphs. On most Linux distributions, the tool is included in the rrdtool package.

Build

cargo build --release

builds a single executable file steel-copper in the directory target/release.

Contribute

This is a very young project with a small feature set. Two types of input I would like to get are feature requests of things you are missing and of course bug reports.

Dependencies

~20–32MB
~506K SLoC