tiwutdev/system-info-dashboard repository overview

⁠🚀 Ultra-Lightweight C++ System Dashboard

A lightning-fast, self-contained system information dashboard. The backend is written entirely in optimized C++ to directly parse Linux kernel metrics from the /proc filesystem, serving them to a beautiful, responsive Tailwind CSS web UI.

Because it is compiled directly to machine code in a multi-stage Docker build, this image is exceptionally small and consumes practically zero CPU overhead while monitoring your server.

GitHub: https://github.com/tiwut/System-Info-Dashboard⁠

⁠✨ Features (14 Real-Time Metrics)

The dashboard auto-refreshes every 1.5 seconds to display:

• System: Hostname, OS Name, Kernel Version, Uptime, Online Status
• CPU: Real-time Usage (%), Core Count, Model Name, Active Tasks (Load)
• Memory: Total RAM, Free RAM, RAM Usage (%)
• Storage: Disk Total Space, Disk Free Space, Disk Usage (%)
• Network: Rx (Received) and Tx (Transmitted) traffic

⁠🐳 Quick Start

⁠Option 1: Docker CLI

To run the container in the background using standard port forwarding, execute:

docker run -d \
  --name cpp-sysinfo \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  --pid=host \
  tiwutdev/system-info-dashboard:latest

⁠Option 2: Docker Compose (Recommended)

Create a docker-compose.yml file:

version: '3.8'

services:
  sysinfo-app:
    image: tiwutdev/system-info-dashboard:latest
    container_name: cpp-sysinfo
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    pid: "host"

Then start it up:

docker compose up -d

Access the dashboard: Open your browser and navigate to http://<your-server-ip>:8080.

⁠⚠️ Important Configuration Notes

To get the most accurate hardware metrics, you must understand how Docker isolates environments:

1. pid: "host" (Required) By default, Docker hides host processes from containers. Passing --pid=host allows the C++ backend to read the actual number of active tasks on the host machine from /proc/loadavg. Without it, your active task count will constantly show 0 or 1.

2. Port Forwarding vs. Host Networking Because this configuration uses Port Forwarding (-p 8080:8080), the Network Rx/Tx metrics will show the traffic of the container's isolated virtual network, not the host machine's physical network card.

   • Want accurate host network traffic? Remove ports: - "8080:8080" and replace it with network_mode: "host" in your compose file.

3. Disk Metrics The disk space metrics read the partition where Docker's overlay network is stored (usually /var/lib/docker). In 99% of setups, this accurately reflects the main root drive of the host machine.

⁠🛠️ Built With

• Backend: C++11 (GCC)
• Libraries: cpp-httplib⁠, nlohmann/json⁠
• Frontend: HTML5, Vanilla JavaScript, Tailwind CSS
• Base Image: Debian Bookworm Slim