Beszel for simple server monitoring

2026-09-20
homelab

I recently installed Beszel for load monitoring on the homelab. Much simpler, super lightweight, great UI. It does Docker container-specific stats out of the box, plus plenty of other metrics like temperatures, GPU usage and disk health.

Beszel dashboard showing CPU, memory and disk usage alongside per-container Docker stats, with the server name blurred

Previously I’ve tried fancy Grafana + Prometheus setups (complicated, high load), Netdata (complicated, high load), and Munin (super simple but old and fugly).

10/10 happy with this one so far!

P.S. I also tried out a bunch of Docker container monitoring TUIs (clockwise from top left): dry, lazydocker, ctop, and oxker.

Four Docker monitoring TUIs showing container lists and resource usage: dry at top left, lazydocker at top right, ctop at bottom right, and oxker at bottom left. Identifying details are blurred and logs are redacted.