FTMON

Local-first · Linux · MIT

Twenty-five years ago I wrote it in Perl.

I just rebuilt it in Python in four days with a frontier model — a local-first, single-host systems monitor for Linux.

Adventures in Monitoring

A focused blog on systems, reliability, and the journey of building and running FTMON — not a general tech dump.

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What it watches

Memory leaks, CPU hogs, disks filling, service failures, and notable journal events — with bounded SQLite history, a CLI, a loopback-only dashboard, and a local MCP server.

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