System Performance Monitoring Dashboard

A clean, production-ready, one-command system monitoring stack with beautiful Grafana dashboards.

Built for DevOps learners, developers, and small teams who want real monitoring without complexity.

Why This Repo?

• Fully working out-of-the-box (not just a dashboard JSON)
• Modern, professional Grafana panels with proper thresholds and dark theme
• Zero-config Prometheus + Node Exporter setup
• Easy to extend with alerts, more metrics, or multi-node
• Solves the common pain: "I want to learn Grafana properly but everything is broken or ugly"

Features

• Real-time CPU, Memory, Disk, Load, and Network metrics
• Color-coded thresholds (green/yellow/red) for quick insights
• Smooth time-series visualizations
• Fully containerized with Docker Compose
• Clean, exportable dashboard.json

Tech Stack

• Grafana (latest) — Beautiful dashboards
• Prometheus — Metrics collection
• Node Exporter — Host system metrics
• Docker + Docker Compose — One-command deployment

Quick Start (Local)

git clone https://github.com/Githubdiaries/system-monitoring-dashboard.git
cd system-monitoring-dashboard
docker compose up -d

Setup in Grafana:

Open http://localhost:3000 (default: admin / admin)
Add Prometheus data source → URL: http://prometheus:9090
Import dashboard → Upload dashboard.json
Done — production-grade monitoring ready.

📁 Project Structure

system-monitoring-dashboard/
├── docker-compose.yml          # Everything in one file
├── prometheus.yml              # Ready scrape config
├── dashboard.json              # Professional Grafana dashboard
├── screenshots/                # Visual proof
├── README.md
└── LICENSE

Proof of Work

Future Improvements (Roadmap)

• Built-in alerting rules (CPU > 80% → Slack/email)
• Disk I/O + detailed Network panels
• Multi-node / Docker container monitoring
• Loki + Promtail for logs (full observability stack)
• Detailed setup guides for production

Contributing

• PRs welcome! Open an issue first for major changes. See CONTRIBUTING.md .