Glances

Glances is a powerful cross-platform system monitoring tool that provides comprehensive visibility into server performance. It combines the functionality of multiple Unix monitoring tools like top, htop, iotop, and df into a single, unified web interface. Designed for system administrators and DevOps teams, Glances offers both quick performance snapshots and long-term monitoring capabilities.

Common Use Cases

System administrators use Glances as their primary server monitoring dashboard, tracking CPU usage, memory consumption, disk I/O, and network activity in real time across multiple VPS instances. DevOps teams integrate Glances to monitor containerized applications, viewing per-container resource usage alongside host metrics. Development teams troubleshoot performance bottlenecks by analyzing process-level statistics and identifying resource-intensive applications. IT operations set up alerting based on configurable thresholds, receiving notifications when CPU, memory, or disk usage exceeds defined limits.

Key Features

• Real-time monitoring of CPU, memory, swap, and load averages
• Disk I/O statistics with read/write rates per device
• Network monitoring with bandwidth usage per interface
• Docker container monitoring with resource usage breakdown
• Process list with CPU and memory consumption per process
• Automatic alerts based on configurable thresholds
• Historical graphs and trend visualization
• Export to InfluxDB, Prometheus, and other time-series databases
• Responsive web UI accessible from any browser
• RESTful API for custom integrations and dashboards

Why deploy Glances on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Glances on a Hostinger VPS provides centralized monitoring for your server infrastructure without relying on external monitoring services. The lightweight footprint ensures minimal resource overhead while delivering comprehensive metrics. With Docker socket access, Glances monitors all containerized applications running on the VPS alongside system-level metrics. The pre-installed Traefik reverse proxy enables secure HTTPS access to the monitoring interface, allowing you to check server health from anywhere. Self-hosting Glances keeps your performance data private and eliminates per-server monitoring fees from SaaS providers.