Life & fun · February 18, 2026
I replaced Grafana+Prometheus with a Go binary and SSH for my VPSs
I do fullstack dev for work and side projects and recently moved everything to a couple VPSs on hetzner. Great setup, low cost, but one thing kept bugging me, how do I know if something is down without manually sshing in all the time? I tried the grafana + prometheus stack but the configuration time and seeing it use more resources than my actual apps was rough. Tried some smaller solutions too but nothing felt right. So I said screw it and built exactly what I wanted. tori is a single go binary that runs on your server, reads host metrics from /proc and /sys, monitors containers…
In plain words
Tori is a lightweight monitoring tool for VPS deployments that replaces heavier stacks like Grafana and Prometheus. A single Go binary collects host metrics, monitors Docker containers, and tails logs while storing data locally in SQLite with seven-day retention. Users configure alert rules in TOML and receive notifications via email or webhooks. The local binary connects to servers over SSH through a terminal interface, requiring no exposed ports or HTTP servers, making it resource-efficient for developers running multiple small applications.
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I do fullstack dev for work and side projects and recently moved everything to a couple VPSs on hetzner. Great setup, low cost, but one thing kept bugging me, how do I know if something is down without manually sshing in all the time? I tried the grafana + prometheus stack but the configuration time and seeing it use more resources than my actual apps was rough. Tried some smaller solutions too but nothing felt right. So I said screw it and built exactly what I wanted. tori is a single go binary that runs on your server, reads host metrics from /proc and /sys, monitors containers via the docker socket (read-only), tails logs, and stores everything in sqlite with a 7 day retention. You define alert rules in a toml config and get notified via email or webhooks. The same binary runs on your local machine and connects over SSH via a TUI, no exposed ports, no HTTP server. https://github.com/thobiasn/tori-cli MIT licensed, happy to answer questions about the architecture or design choices :)
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