Glimpse is a super simple server vital starts service written in bash. There are many much more involved services out there, such as collectd for instance. However, I needed something really simple to show very basic server stats in the today widget on OSX, so I made glimpse.
Hope someone else will also find it useful.
The only prerequisite of glimpse that you may not have on a standard linux system is the socat utility necessary for glimpsed. To install it just run apt-get install socat or yum install socat or similar install command for your system.
After this, just copy glimpse and glimpsed into a folder on your system and start it by running glimpsed.
Now that the glimpse server is running, simply go to http://server-ip:5488/ to see the server stats. You can change the port number by editing the glimpsed file.
To look at the server stats from another command line, simply run curl http://server-ip:5488/.
In my case I wanted to use it with the wonderful Today-Scripts. Grab the Today Scripts widget, install it, and add curl http://server-ip:5488/ as one of your scripts. Now you have some basic server stats in the today side bar.
Released under MIT License. Fork and enjoy!
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