Monitoring software for Raspberry Pi

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Watchful Eye

Keep an eye on your Raspberry Pi-based server with these nifty monitoring applications.

Turning a Raspberry Pi into a web or file server is relatively easy. However, if you decide to enlist your Rasp Pi for web and file serving duties, you should also consider deploying software that will help you monitor your server make sure it runs smoothly. In this article, I talk about several applications that can help you to monitor Raspberry Pi's vital statistics, such as CPU load, disk usage, network info, and much more.

PhpSysInfo

PhpSysInfo [1] is not designed specifically for Raspberry Pi, but this monitoring software works perfectly well on the little machine. Written in PHP, PhpSysInfo requires the Apache web server and PHP installed on your Raspberry Pi. Installing both packages is as easy as running

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5

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