pydashis a lightweight[web-based monitoring tool for Linux][1]written inPythonand[Django][2]plusChart.js. It has been tested and can run on the following mainstream Linux distributions: CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux, Raspbian as well as Pidora.
You can use it to keep an eye on your Linux PC/server resources such as CPUs, RAM, network stats, processes including online users and more. The dashboard is developed entirely using Python libraries provided in the main Python distribution, therefore it has a few dependencies; you don’t need to install many packages or libraries to run it.
In this article, we will show you how to installpydash to monitor Linux server performance.
Important: Take note the virtual environment’s bin directory path highlighted in the screenshot above, yours could be different depending on where you cloned the pydash folder.
5.Once you have created the virtual environment (pydashtest), you must activate it before using it as follows.
From the screenshot above, you’ll note that thePS1prompt changes indicating that your virtual environment has been activated and is ready for use.
6.Now install the pydash project requirements; if you are curious enough, view the contents ofrequirements.txtusing the[cat command][5]and the install them using as shown below.
```
$ cat requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
```
7.Now move into the pydash directory containingsettings.pyor simple run the command below to open this file to change theSECRET_KEYto a custom value.
9.At this point, all should be set, now run the following command to start the Django development server.
```
$ python manage.py runserver
```
10.Next, open your web browser and type the URL:http://127.0.0.1:8000/to get the web dashboard login interface. Enter the super user name and password you created while creating the database and installing Django’s auth system in step 8 and click Sign In.
11.Once you login into pydash main interface, you will get a section for monitoring general system info, CPU, memory and disk usage together with system load average.
12.Next, screenshot of the pydash showing a section for keeping track of interfaces, IP addresses, Internet traffic, disk read/writes, online users and netstats.
For more information, check out pydash on Github:[https://github.com/k3oni/pydash][12].
That’s it for now! In this article, we showed you how to setup and test the main features of pydash in Linux. Share any thoughts with us via the feedback section below and in case you know of any useful and similar tools out there, let us know as well in the comments.
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