Install glances and keep it running for showing gethomepage.dev system stats

This will make the glances application run in the background on every reboot and provide the necessary metrics for homepage.

Install pip:

sudo apt install python3-pip

Install glances with pip for this user:

pip install --user 'glances[web]'

Re source your .profile for the new executable for glances to be in your current environment:

source ~/.profile

Update the crontab to run glances at startup without web UI but able to share system metrics (no web UI to make it more efficient):

# this goes on crontab
@reboot /home/ismael/.local/bin/glances -w --disable-webui

Reboot the server and glances should be running after this automatically on every reboot. Works great in an LXC container.

Create the services.yaml entry for gethomepage.dev to show server root usage stats:

Note: There are a bunch of strings on this YAML that are customized to your liking. See https://gethomepage.dev/widgets/services/glances/ for the specifics on the Glances widget.

...
- Docker:
    - mini-docker:
        icon: docker.png
        widgets: 
            - type: glances
              url: http://<IP of server>:61208
              version: 4 # main version of glances used
              metric: fs:/ # showing root usage
...

At the end it should look something like this:

mini-docker glances widget