# c0m4r/kula

Lightweight, self-contained Linux® server monitoring tool

Repository: https://github.com/c0m4r/kula
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kula
Homepage: https://kula.ovh
Language: Go
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: go, golang, linux, monitoring, monitoring-tool, monitoring-tools, real-time-monitoring, tui, webui, linux-server-monitoring, server-monitoring, linux-monitoring, linux-server, linux-servers, linux-tools, real-time-analytics, vps-monitor, network-monitoring, self-contained, server-monitoring-tools
Last push: 2026-08-23T13:28:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 80/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 95, longevity 13
- inputs: {"age_days": 187, "days_push": 10, "days_rel": 35, "gap_med": 1.0, "n_releases_24m": 47}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1319, forks 65 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:21.244400+00:00)

## What it is
Kula is a lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool written in Go that ships as a single binary with zero dependencies. It reads metrics directly from /proc and /sys every second, stores them in a built-in tiered ring-buffer, and serves them via a real-time Web UI dashboard, a terminal TUI, and a Prometheus exporter endpoint.

## Use cases
- monitor a linux vps in real time
- single binary server monitoring with no external database
- watch cpu memory network and disk metrics from a terminal tui
- self-hosted server dashboard that works on closed networks
- export linux server metrics to prometheus
- monitor docker containers and cgroups on a server
- track gpu load and temperatures on a linux box

## When to choose
- you want zero-dependency, single-binary monitoring for a Linux server or VPS
- you need real-time 1-second-resolution metrics with a web dashboard and TUI
- you want privacy-first monitoring with no cloud calls or external databases
- you need a built-in Prometheus exporter without extra agents

## When to avoid
- you need multi-host fleet monitoring or centralized aggregation across many servers
- you require long-term historical metric retention beyond ring-buffer tiers
- you need monitoring on non-Linux platforms, since Kula reads /proc and /sys directly
- you need alerting and notification pipelines out of the box

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, analytics, http-server, terminal-ui, data-visualization
- domain: monitoring, self-hosted
- platform: go, self-hosted, cli
- tags: server-monitoring, single-binary, ring-buffer, prometheus-exporter, tui, web-dashboard, zero-dependencies, vps-monitoring, devops, command-line, real-time, linux, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- c0m4r/kula (main) score 80

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:21.244400+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:47:53.448033+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/c0m4r/kula (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:21.244400+00:00, sha 1205628f6d43)
  - homepage: https://kula.ovh (fetched 2026-08-29T12:06:25.300273+00:00, sha 833f5298be0e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.