@fred1m, Glad to know that you are planning to work on this app. I see no objections to adding this app as long as there is at least one developer willing to maintain it.
Before you start, one consideration though: inspired your post, I began looking what other ways are available to provide this performance data. I found out about Cockpit’s integration of Performance Co-Pilot project.
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This approach has following properties:
- Seems to provide the basic necessary monitoring by default (CPU, memory, disk and network).
- Integrated into FreedomBox’s choice of web administrator tool, that is, Cockpit.
- Live updates of data.
- Has historic value storage.
- Very easy to setup. I just did
apt install cockpit-pcpand everything just worked. - No special authentication and web setup needed (it is part of Cockpit).
- Has zoom in and zoom out with selection on the graph for time period. Maximum range I saw was only a week and not entire year you have shown me. This is still very useful I think.
- Not as powerful as munin or other dedicated tools. This should be okay, however.
If this looks good, we can introduce a ‘Performance’ app in ‘System’ and install this package as part of that. Then redirect users to Cockpit web interface. This would be very straightforward to do. Let me know what you think. If you like it, you can pick up this task.