Monitor your Raspberry Pi in Real Time with RPi-Monitor

Have you ever wanted to see the statistics of your mini-server or any IoT device that works 24/7 and wondered what happened during all those time? Well, lucky you found this post.

RPi-Monitor is an application designed to perform real time monitoring embedded devices. It provides a lot of feature such as Embedded Web server, Alert messaging, SNMP integration, etc.

Objective

• See your Raspberry Pi metrics as its current status with statistics pleasantly displayed in a web interface

Tip

For more details, refer to their key features in its documentation.

Installation from Repository

1. Install RPi-Monitor‘s public key to trust RPi-Monitor repository

   	
   
   		
   
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   sudo apt-get install dirmngr
   sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 2C0D3C0F
   

2. Add RPi-Monitor into your list of repository

   	
   
   		
   
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   sudo wget http://goo.gl/vewCLL -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rpimonitor.list
   

3. Install RPi-Monitor

   	
   
   		
   
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   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install rpimonitor
   

Note

RPi-Monitor is designed to start automatically and collect metrics. The web interface is available at localhost:8888

Command Cheat Sheet

1. Update packages information

	

		

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sudo /etc/init.d/rpimonitor update
sudo service rpimonitor update