Build a Real-Time Server Dashboard with Python & WebSockets
A Step-by-Step Guide to Monitoring Your VPS Like a Pro
If you're managing a VPS, homelab, or even a Raspberry Pi, you've probably found yourself SSH-ing in just to run htop or glances. What if you could see all your server metrics in a beautiful web dashboard that updates in real-time?
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to build a lightweight server monitoring dashboard using Python (with psutil and aiohttp) and vanilla JavaScript with Chart.js — no React, no Vue, no bloated frameworks.
What We're Building
