There are plenty of excellent tools to monitor servers in real-time (New Relic, LogicMonitor). These products have tons of features and often costs more than you are (eagerly) willing to pay. Maybe you just need something simple or something custom that you want to keep an eye on in a dashboard. Perhaps the Dev in you is bigger than the Ops? In any of those cases, this article is for you.

We will show how you can use a pre-made restdb.io database template to create your own DevOps server monitoring dashboard with JavaScript, Google Charts and Bash shell scripts. The setup is simple and will only take you a few minutes to try out.