MetricsAPI

Lightweight Flask API for Linux monitoring

Overview

MetricsAPI is an extremely lightweight API built with Flask that I created to monitor my home server setup. Personally, I display these metrics on a Rainmeter dashboard, but you can choose to create anything you like.

Features

Lightweight
Status webpage
Per-core and packaged CPU metrics
- Model name
- Address sizes
- Processor speed
- User, system, idle, etc. load measures.
Temperature data
- CPU
- Motherboard
- ... and more (depends on your machine)
Volume information
- Space remaining
- Read/written
- Read/write per second
IP addresses

Future Work

Network up/down

Installation

Dependencies

To run MetricsAPI you will need to install Flask.

MetricsAPI gets its data from shell commands. You will need to install the following with your package manager: sysstat sensors

Try It!

I run the following command to start the API. Keep in mind that I only run this on my local network and the API is not open to the internet. As per Flask documention --app run is not intended for production. You should follow a Flask app deployment procedure (there are tons of them online) if you wish to open your API to the world wide web.

flask --app main run --host=0.0.0.0