If you haven't seen this before, you should definitely give it a try. I am a big CLI person but I still find it useful, especially for displaying/visualizing metrics/performance.

If you're on a RHEL or Fedora base, it might be already installed and running. You just hit it on port 9090 with your web browser, and log in with your OS creds (same that you use for SSH). If it's not installed yet and/or you want to also add performance co-pilot[1], it's pretty easy to do:

    # Install cockpit and pcp and activate services
    dnf install -y cockpit pcp cockpit-pcp
    systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket
    systemctl enable --now pmlogger

    # If needed, open port 9090 in the firewall
    firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-service=cockpit

    # Alternatively you can open it for just your own IP
    firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="38.14.154.124" port protocol="tcp" port="9090" accept'

Here's the same commands in a gist if preferred: https://gist.github.com/FreedomBen/62b348ed45045e53356aeb714...

[1]: https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/feature-pcp

Is it like minimalist version of Netdata[1]? Netdata doesn't require fiddling for the most part too, Unless we need to customize alarms, logging etc. It's discovery of services and visualizations for monitoring are excellent.

My only complaint on Netdata is that its resource heavy(especially the Go plugins) and so they're not fit for resource-constrained systems like Raspberry Pi; I wonder whether Cockpit is a good replacement there.

[1] https://github.com/netdata/netdata