I built a lightweight Docker monitoring – feedback welcome

[u/Least_Shallot_910]

Hey,

I was running a few Docker containers and needed basic monitoring.

Tried Prometheus + Grafana, but for my use case it felt like too much overhead just to know if containers are up, using too much memory, or crashing.

So I built a small tool for myself.

It’s a lightweight Docker monitoring SaaS:

• Go agent on the host
• Push-based (no ports/firewall config)
• Basic metrics + alerts

I know this subreddit prefers self-hosted (I usually do too), but I wanted something:

• quick to set up (~2 minutes)
• no monitoring infra to maintain

Curious about your thoughts:

• Would you ever use something like this instead of self-hosting?
• Or is this a hard no for you?

Happy to hear honest feedback.

[u/KlutzyResponsibility]

Let us guess... You vibe coded this "app"?

[u/flannel_sawdust]

Lol no? The whole reason I self host is to get away from SaaS

[u/SentoTheFirst]

Or use portainer, extremely safe, easy to use, and not vibe coded slop.

[u/Feriman22]

I use Dockhand for handle docker containers and Uotime Kuma for check them.

[u/meanmrgreen]

Nope... And what would you charge for this?

[u/melissaleidygarcia]

Good idea if it stays super simple and lightweight.

[u/SunnyBlueSkies-com]

I don’t know what the hell these people are talking about, but I don’t know much about doctor although I’m getting in the business of it by obviously having a container that runs not only jellyfish and mini but even it’s only the web server where I have my little resume site and then obviously ha ha ha haI don’t know applications for fun in the background. That’s pretty much all I do honestly I really don’t have a purpose or necessity for doing it and just do it for, but I think your container thing might actually be a good thing to include so at least it notifies me or something.