Server Monitoring

Built-In Monitoring

Your SHC VPS comes with basic monitoring visible in the Client Portal:

• CPU utilization
• Memory usage
• Disk space
• Network throughput
• Uptime history

Self-Hosted Monitoring

For comprehensive monitoring, we recommend deploying your own stack:

Prometheus + Node Exporter

Install node_exporter for system metrics:

# Download and install
wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v1.8.2/node_exporter-1.8.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xzf node_exporter-1.8.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo cp node_exporter-1.8.2.linux-amd64/node_exporter /usr/local/bin/

# Create systemd service
sudo cat > /etc/systemd/system/node_exporter.service << 'EOF'
[Unit]
Description=Node Exporter
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node_exporter
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now node_exporter

Uptime Monitoring

For external uptime monitoring, consider:

• Uptime Kuma (self-hosted) — deploy on a separate VPS for independent monitoring
• Check our status page for SHC infrastructure status

Alerting

Configure alerts for critical thresholds:

# Example Prometheus alert rules
groups:
  - name: vps-alerts
    rules:
      - alert: HighCPU
        expr: 100 - (avg(rate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode="idle"}[5m])) * 100) > 90
        for: 5m

      - alert: DiskSpaceLow
        expr: (node_filesystem_avail_bytes / node_filesystem_size_bytes) * 100 < 10
        for: 5m

      - alert: HighMemory
        expr: (1 - node_memory_MemAvailable_bytes / node_memory_MemTotal_bytes) * 100 > 90
        for: 5m