How to monitor your home lab with one command?

You could spend your weekend calculating storage retention for Prometheus and writing alerting rules in YAML, or you could simply run one command.

Why not just self-host?

"Free" tools still cost you servers, storage, and days debugging YAML configs.

The DIY Route

The "Free" Stack

Setting up tools like Checkmk, Zabbix, or Netdata often seems simple at first, but the hidden costs of maintenance, configuration, and infrastructure quickly add up.

Provision and secure servers (networking, firewall, TLS)
Configure persistent storage and backups
Monitor the monitoring system itself
Handle updates, patches, and compatibility issues
…

Infrastructure overhead: You're paying for VPS, storage, and backups anyway.

Single point of failure: When your monitoring VM goes down, you're blind.

Ongoing maintenance: Updates, security patches, disk resizing, and config drift.

The Smart Route

Simple Observability

curl -fsSL https://simpleobservability.com/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- <SERVER KEY>

One command installs an agent that ships metrics and logs to a hosted platform. Dashboards and alerts are already configured.

Independent of your infra: Alerts fire even if your entire network goes down.

Zero ops burden: No updates, no storage management, no late-night pages about Prometheus.

Predictable cost: Flat per-server pricing instead of metered billing that spirals.

Easy deployment

Set up your homelab monitoring in under 2 minutes

Run the install command on your local servers, connect them in the web UI, and start tracking health and resource usage.

01

Install the agent

Install our open-source agent with a single command.

02

Configure from the UI

Manage everything from the web interface. No config files needed.

03

Get instant insights

Access ready-to-use reports and alerts.

Features

Everything you need for your home lab

Monitor CPU and memory usage, search through system logs, and track the execution and output logs of your scheduled background tasks.

Metrics

Track CPU, RAM, disk, and network with minimal overhead.

Logs

Centralize and search logs without setting up pipelines.

Cron Monitoring

Track execution, duration, and exit codes. Capture output logs from your running jobs and get alerted on failures.

Alerts

Set threshold-based alerts. Integrates with Slack, Discord, and other channels.

Why Simple Observability is the best monitoring solution for your servers?

One command install

Deploy our open-source agent with a single command. No complex setup procedures.

Web UI configuration

Configure everything through our intuitive interface. No more editing wrestling with configuration syntax.

Unified monitoring

Get the full picture with metrics and logs in one unified system.

Ready-to-use reports

Access meaningful insights immediately. No need to build complex dashboards. We extract what matters.

Customizable alerting

Set up notifications for critical events like disk space issues or unusual server activity. Stay ahead of problems before they impact your services.

Mobile App

Monitor your infrastructure from anywhere. Access reports and alerts directly from your phone to stay informed on the go.

Open Source & Transparent Agent

Our open source agent collects logs and metrics from your servers. You can audit the code, see exactly what it collects, and build it from source.

Keep an eye on your servers from anywhere

Mobile-friendly dashboards

Respond to alerts from your phone

No install needed

Just add to your home screen

Lightweight is a metric,
not an adjective.

“Lightweight” isn’t a promise, it’s something we measure.

simob is built to have a minimal footprint, with close attention to memory usage and CPU consumption, so monitoring stays out of the way of your workloads.

Read our engineering deep dive

simob-agent.service

CPU Usage

< 0.3 %

1 core utilization

Memory

< 12 MB

Resident Set Size (RSS)

Binary Size

< 10 MB

Static, no deps

Disk I/O

< 0.2 kB/s

Minimal, low-frequency writes

Complete observability, simplified

Simple Observability delivers all essential monitoring capabilities in one streamlined package. We've eliminated the complexity while keeping the powerful features you need to maintain reliable systems.

Stop cobbling together multiple tools and managing complicated stacks.

Customizable Graphs

In addition to ready-to-use reports, create custom visualizations tailored to your specific monitoring needs.

Query Your Data

Powerful search functionality to find specific metrics and logs across your entire infrastructure.

Alerts

Configure precise alert conditions for events that matter to your operations. Get notified when thresholds are crossed.

Webhooks

Connect alerts to your existing workflow. Integrations with Discord, Slack, email, SMS, and more ensure notifications reach you wherever you work.

Mobile App

Progressive Web App to monitor your servers from anywhere. Keep your infrastructure at your fingertips.

Automatic Updates

Our agent automatically updates itself with the latest features and security patches. No maintenance required on your part.

Clear Pricing

Fixed pricing with no surprises. No usage-based charges, no worrying about log volume spikes. What you see is what you pay

Support

Whether you're running mainstream Linux distros or the most esoteric OS variants, our team will help you get monitoring up and running.

Zero Inbound Ports.

Most monitoring agents require you to poke holes in your firewall or manage complex access lists.
We don't. simob strictly pushes data outbound. Your firewall stays completely closed.