🖥️ Linux System Monitor Dashboard

A full-stack real-time system monitoring tool built with Python, Flask, and JavaScript. Tracks CPU, memory, and disk usage live with a clean dark-theme dashboard.

🚀 Demo

✨ Features

• 📊 Real-time CPU, Memory, and Disk monitoring (updates every 3 seconds)
• 📈 Live line chart with 20-point scrolling history
• 🗄️ Automatic CSV logging every 10 seconds
• 🔔 Email alerts when thresholds are exceeded
• 🌐 REST API with JSON endpoints
• 🧠 Background-tab-resistant polling via Web Worker

🛠️ Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Backend	Python, Flask, psutil
Frontend	HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Chart.js
Data	CSV logging, REST API
Alerts	smtplib (email notifications)

📡 API Endpoints

Endpoint	Description
GET /	Dashboard UI
GET /metrics	Live CPU, memory, disk JSON
GET /history	Last 20 logged entries
GET /health	System health status

⚙️ Installation & Setup

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/sushmasai1704-web/linux_system_monitor.git
cd linux_system_monitor

# Install dependencies
pip install flask psutil

# Start the logger (background)
python3 logger.py &

# Start the API server
python3 api.py

Open http://127.0.0.1:5000 in your browser.

📁 Project Structure

linux_system_monitor/ ├── api.py # Flask REST API ├── logger.py # Background CSV logger ├── dashboard.html # Real-time dashboard UI ├── analyse.py # Data analysis & graph generation ├── email_alert.py # Email alert system └── system_log.csv # Auto-generated metrics log

👩‍💻 Author

M Sai Sushma
GitHub