u/Anglotx

Note: I'm just a beginner, don't bash too hard on me :/. AI wasn't used to write this post at all and I'd love if you'd take a minute and check the project out!

AI was used to lend me a hand me during the dev of the project, but it wasn't used extensively and most of the UI is just shad/cn, it was used mostly to help me learn Svelte as it's my first time using it :P

Also, for anyone that isn't inside the JS/TS ecosystem or just don't know what PM2 is, it's just a process manager, allows you to control all of your Node/Bun/Deno processes (or even other interpreters) and auto-start them on boot. Find more about it here: https://pm2.keymetrics.io/

Project Repo: https://github.com/AngelCMHxD/PeekM2

Live demo: https://peekm2.angelcmh.com/

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I've been looking for PM2 dashboards for quite a while and I've been able to find quite a lot of options, however, none of them were quite what I was looking for.

The official one has a LOT of features, though mostly ones that I don't need, and the only plan with a fixed/public pricing is $39 a MONTH, which is just too much for what I was looking for, and especially for hobby projects.

And for the open-source ones, some of them were too complex to setup, like I don't want to setup a whole PostgreSQL instance just for a PM2 dashboard. And others were over-complicated, I don't really need an user management feature other than just an admin/master password, if I didn't have a dashboard I'd have to give the other maintainers access to the whole daemon anyways. (Though right now you can set up multiple instances, so you can handle access that way too)

So, for mine I built a historical CPU/RAM usage history chart, logs, basic controls to restart/stop/delete processes, and a small uptime chart (that probably needs to be reworked because it only checks every 5 mins, and for it to be reliable it should check WAY more frequently)

Now, I do have other features in mind that I could implement and have them in mind, like these:

• Discord (or other) webhooks to notify about process changes or downtime.
• Fix the uptime thing I mentioned before.
• Add a way to check historical data from other than the last 24h.
• Related to the one above, limit the amount of historical data stored, as it's currently uncapped and we only use the last 24h, so keep only what's needed
• Maybe add a way to see the process env variables?

This list is not exhaustive though, and I'm quite open for feedback, even if it's the user management thing I mentioned before that I didn't need, I'll just find a way to make it unobtrusive for anyone that may not want it.

The main point of the project is just keeping it simple for anyone that doesn't want that much, but I could add other features as long as they don't impact the simplicity for anyone that don't want them. Just keeping the "barrier of entry" as low as possible.

I've also deployed a "demo" instance so you can see how it currently looks like, and I've said before, I'm open to feedback!

If you like the idea, please star the repo ;D! It's my first time doing a project and posting it on things like Reddit, I'm just a beginner at these things

Edit: Fixed the formatting... so sad that it didn't worked at first :/

2nd Edit: Also, I'd love to promote Hack Club! It's an amazing non-profit dedicated to incentivize programming for teenagers (13-18 inclusive) and overall just doing cool projects while getting rewards. This project was made/submitted to one of their programs as I'm a teenager myself :D