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Do you use any web ui's for your Linux server? I'm comfortable managing my server using the command line, but I also want a graphical interface that shows an overview of what is running on the server, the way the resources are being used what containers are running and so on. Also file download uploads would be great to have.

What do you recommend which is light and resources and is suitable for less powerful servers with low ram?

So far these are the more interstating tools I've found: (they vary in functionality their provide)

CasaOS Cockpit SartOS Orb Kasm

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago

He wasn't speaking loudly at all.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Way too cumbersome to use with a touchscreen

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

You administer your servers with a touch screen.

No hate as I sometimes use my phone to ssh in to things

[–] Meuzzin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ummm Webmin? Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned....

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[–] andruid@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Cockpit has been my go too, very quick to just get up and working plus including a web terminal for the rest of what you need.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have a look at Netdata, Alerta and Prometheus.

Of all the things you mentioned Cockpit is the only sane one.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to view multiple endpoints at once though.
They had that feature but they discontinued it.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cockpit can still.connect to multiple machines: https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/feature-machines

Where did you see that they discontinued it? Or do you mean netdata, who hid this behind a paywall?

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It can connect singly. It used to have the ability to stack graphs and details of multiple machines at a time. Not just a dropdown that switches you fully.
Here's the feature introduction: Multi-Server Dashboard
The removal announcement was buried in the release notes which is why I say it was quietly discontinued, but I sure spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to enable it before finding that.

I'll try to find it later once I'm not on mobile, but you can tell from the above link that nothing like that exists in Cockpit today.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you for the explanation. That sucks.

If it's only the monitoring you want, you can set up something with Grafana and Prometheus very quickly.

[–] macattack@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm headless and mostly use containers, so I run lazy docker

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did you write this comment, Headless Horseman? 🎃

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mardown formatting

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[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I meant is that how could you use Lemmy without a head, but thanks anyway.

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[–] fart_pickle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

+1 for cockpit. Easy to install, easy on the eyes and makes things done.

I used ArozOS before, but I have now no usecase anymore for UIs for the host OS

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I tried to install Cockpit on Debian, and it just downloaded an entire Linux Desktop? Really weird, had the configs and open port all but still the UI was not showing.

Might give it another try but would prefer something less resource heavy

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Hey you wanted NetworkManager, right? We've decided everyone wants NetworkManager."

Last time I didn't use --no-install-recommends

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooh right! I hate Debian that it does this.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It makes sense in a lot of cases, just not all of them.
Huh, it's got to be the maintainers who make that list, right? Not the developers?
Either way, that must be an awkward philosophical snarl. "Oh I see we're running Gnome again."

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was a hyperbole so not really a complete desktop, but a lot of tools that where duplicating others in purpose

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I've had it cascade and install an entire desktop.

[–] zzzzzz@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have found Nginx Proxy Manager to be a huge time-saver for configuring nginx and certbot.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Ooooh I'm gonna have to take a look at that

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I tried out some of these today. Umbrel, CapRover and Tipi aren't on your list yet.

They look beautiful and have some nice prebuilt installations but it gets really ugly soon as you need a custom component. I just deleted it all and switched over to portainer.

I tried installing gnome to rdp into my oracle free tier server and it wasn't remotely (hehehe) worth it. Very laggy and direct interfaces are just far superior so no to that as well. Plus it takes up precious space and resources.

I think the best option is a dashboard like dashy or homepage to keep your service interfaces together. Portainer is excellent for container management.

These weird "OS" style container platforms are really bizarre and I don't think too well thought out. They're kinda toys really. Looked really amazing but they show their limitations really quickly.

[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago
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[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

lxc-ls -f

Shows me what is running and that's about it.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Netdata is great for monitoring

[–] mfat@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

I tried it once the UI is very complicated.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A bit off-topic, but why do many self hosting-related stuff tries to "reinvent the wheel" so to speak with things that exists even on smart tvs nowadays? Even then, who is gonna edit videos (for example) on a smart tv? "Oopsie, time to get my mouse and keyboard and do some heavy video editing on my TV!"

@ontopic, eh. btop is enough for me as well. Maybe glances if I'm feeling "haxxor" enough. :^)

[–] 0000@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of my motivation for starting random useless side projects is unfortunately “because I can” and the learning experience from using a new framework or library.

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[–] Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have links to SartOS and Orb?

[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Portainer has been great. I almost don't need ssh

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 year ago

I use Froxlor. But it's less about resources and more about webhosting. Just makes it easier for me to control domains, databases and e-mail addresses.

It's not as deep in the system like Webmin but still gives me enough control to do special stuff.

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