Feature Request: Overall system monitor

[User9684]

Hi, I'm aware there is a system monitor for individual docker instances, but I'd like to see an overall monitor, to see exactly how much storage is used, CPU usage, RAM, etc.

[diwu1989]

+1 being able to see the overall system utilization on edge is very useful

[kitarp29]

Hi @User9684 @diwu1989
Can't we just have this using Grafana backed on Prometheus?
Why to reinvent wheel for which exists aleady.

[diwu1989]

Because:

1. I don't want to run grafana and prometheus
2. I want a quick and dirty replacement for htop at a glance when I click into the Edge node

I'm not asking for a grafana or prometheus or a netdata replacement.
I just want to avoid having to SSH into the node and having to run htop + docker stats

If you give a UI page for each node that provides the same data as htop + docker stats + docker system df -v then it's good enough. It does not need to have history, it does not need to be real time refreshed, it just need to show the current state of the node.

[kitarp29]

Hi @diwu1989 that's an interesting tool I did not know about.
So as I see it is that htop is a CLI.
Does it have an open-end API that you will consume in this UI Dashboard?

[User9684]

Hi @User9684 @diwu1989 Can't we just have this using Grafana backed on Prometheus? Why to reinvent wheel for which exists aleady.

I believe it would be tons better to just have everything on the same thing and running on the same thing rather than having multiple different sites just for monitoring.

[GrabbenD]

1 year later, any updates?

Was hoping Portainer could be my new home but the lack of a unified resource dashboard is a bummer (since I'd love to have everything in one place!)

[laxmanpradhan]

any progress on this? Really it just needs to show 'docker stats' in a pretty gui format. Its hard to imagine other people won't find this useful.

[DrSpaldo]

Agreed. I want to watch multiple containers or the overall system stats. Hopefully this gets looked into...

[Nick-Portainer]

Thank you for raising this feature request. It is one of our most requested features, alongside alerting. I wanted to note that it is in our pipeline for a future release. While we don't have an ETA for this release yet, I will keep you updated on its progress.

[User9684]

yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ty so much <3

[amooz]

Is there a ticket we can follow so tracking progress becomes self-serve?

[akmail]

is that pipeline visible somewhere for us, dummies?
also, is there any progress on this - now, that 4 months passed? just wondering if there is a solid plan for a release meanwhile. Can we see that somewhere by any chance?

around two years for implementing a basic feature, that is apparently the most asked too... folks... I must be not getting something...

Yacht does show it on the dashboard. it can't be that difficult. meanwhile I've built the dashboard via docker integration in my home assistance instance. so, for me there is no urgency. it's just that to me it feels like setting wrong priorities. I get that fixing stuff and enhancing with nice functionality is important too, but this one is quick and brings a lot of happiness to the users (as apparently most of them would like to have it).

this is not blaming, just providing my opinion.

[Nick-Portainer]

Hey, thanks for sharing your thoughts. This feature is part of a larger picture and pipeline we have. We understand how important this is for everyone, but there's more to it than just plugging monitoring it into Portainer. We need to find the correct way to go about it and ensure it is as clean and useful as possible.

[akmail]

thanks for sharing your future big-picture plans, Nick-Portainer. However, you didn't answer the actual question. Shall I repeat it? Also, I don't get why a CPU/Memory/Disk/Network dashboard is more than "plugging monitoring it into Portainer". What would it else be? A Dashboard is about cards showing some basic metrics. To me it's exactly plugging monitoring into Portainer - that's the purpose of it. That's what users are asking for - since years. I really don't understand it. The same information you already show in the stat tab....

here once again a dashboard from a competitor:

oh dear...

[User9684]

While I do agree that it's been taking some time for the portainer crew to implement a system usage UI, and it might be a bit frustrating to not hear much about the pipeline, I believe that we should avoid being hostile towards the developers.

Frustration is not a valid reason to lash out against others.

[Schmill]

Just adding a(nother)+1 to this request.
I have a number of containers running and from my system monitor I could see that my CPU and ram usage was high, and being used by "docker". Short of going onto Portainer and clicking the stats for each of the multitude of containers in turn I couldn't see a nice way of seeing a dashboard type representation of the data.

[ocangelo]

+1 on this from me as well, was there any update on the request? any tickets we can follow?

[mdima]

+1 for me too! This would be very nice to have... Thanks!

[declan727]

this would be a great feature

[Arjenlodder]

+1 Any progress on this?

[Nick-Portainer]

@Arjenlodder This is still a big priority for us, there is currently no ETA.

[jusvit]

+1 What does Alerting have CPU/memory environment alerts but we can't have a readout of that on the environment list from the UI?