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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…

I replaced Grafana+Prometheus with a Go binary and SSH for my VPSs launched on February 18, 2026 with 11 votes, #985 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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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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From the sources

Docker server monitoring without the stack. Metrics, logs, and alerts from your terminal. Single binary, zero exposed ports, SSH-only. - thobiasn/tori-cli

Most Docker VPS setups don't need a full monitoring stack. Seeing your monitoring tool use more resources than the thing it's watching is painful when all you really need is just to be alerted when something breaks at 3am, or find that one log line during debugging. tori is that tool. Single binary, SSH-only, no dashboards, nofrom github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

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…

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