Show HN: Monitor server hardware usage from phone

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33 points·vpj··4 comments

I've seen a few different "monitor servers from your phone" (web)apps over the years, and having tried them I don't really see the appeal. Phones have tiny screens and crippled input; you can't see much and you can barely navigate. I do see value in alerting, so maybe this is a good supplement to that? But it seems like if I get say an SMS alert "server634 at 98% memory" I'd be better off getting to a laptop because I can investigate far easier from there, let alone fix things. (Happy to hear from anyone using these, though; it does seem like I might be missing a better workflow)

Hi, I am one of the developers. This makes total sense, we were thinking of doing alerts. Do you have any specific alerts in mind? Do you think they should be customizable or general anomalies be enough?

I don't think you are missing a better workflow. Our current use case is monitoring the hardware while monitoring model training. In this case researchers tend to take a look at how their models are doing from time to time and they could check on hardware at the same time. This wouldn't be the case for general servers.

To the yjftsjthsd-h point about showing all that on phone. I haven't yet looked into your prj, but just my 2cents here. if not please make it zoomable. I cannot tell you how much it bothers me to have a phone with 4k display and having an app that shows 4k amount of information on it that I'm suppose to read that isn't zoomable.

I love the idea of a dashboard for the 50K view then zooming into any "red." or interesting parts.

Just my 2cent. My apology if it already is since its a web interface?

else your prj urges me to get into ML. I may in near future wanting to do localized CV of faces/objects in a picture archive.

thanks for this.

OK I think I like the sound of that.

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