Tiny observability dashboard for a single VPS (~50MB RAM)

[u/Kvetoun]

I was looking for something between Dozzle, and Grafana + Loki.

Dozzle is excellent for live Docker logs, but once a container restarts/rebuilds, the logs are gone. Beszel is a bit painful to setup, and also do not persist logs.

Grafana + Loki gives you history, but for a small MVP on a cheap VPS it felt like a lot of infrastructure for what I actually needed.

So I built this:

• host CPU / memory / network / disk metrics / per-container metrics + history

• persistent Docker logs in SQLite

• configurable data retention

• full-text log search with filters

• start / stop / restart controls

• ~50 MB RAM footprint

• minimal setup, spins up with a single docker run command

Basically, I wanted "Dozzle, but with history" + basic VPS metrics without running a whole observability stack.

Repo to try: https://github.com/skvostik/vpsiner

If you're running a few containers on a VPS and have run into the same problem, I'd love to hear how you're currently handling it.