Building a Simple Server Monitoring Script in My Homelab

KithupaG — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:47:01 +0000

*Why monitoring matters *

Monitoring matters because it provides a shared feedback loop, necessary visibility in the system metrics, performance, security, it also enables rapid issue detection, and continous improvement

See my code in my github here:- https://github.com/KithupaG/Homelab/blob/main/monitoring/server-stats.sh

How I built it

I used functions to house the processes, adhering to the laws of writing code, inside those functions I housed the shell commands such as top, free, df, ps etc to fetch the data and used awk to tabularize the data.

Demo output.

Future plan
Add logging to a file → server_stats.log.
Output as JSON so it integrates with Prometheus/ELK.
Connect to Grafana and make dashboards.

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Building a Simple Server Monitoring Script in My Homelab