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title: "Simple Homelab Health Monitoring with Discord Webhooks"
date: "2026-02-04"
excerpt: "A lightweight bash-based monitoring setup that sends daily system health summaries to Discord - no Prometheus required."
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I wanted a lightweight way to keep tabs on my homelab server (HP ProDesk 600 G2) without running a full monitoring stack like Prometheus/Grafana or Netdata. The solution: a couple of bash scripts that collect stats hourly and send a daily summary to Discord.
## The Setup
The system has two components:
**1. Collector** - Runs every hour via cron, appending CPU, memory, load, and disk usage to a daily CSV file. Data is retained for 7 days.
**2. Reporter** - Runs daily at 9 AM, calculates min/avg/max from the collected samples, checks for journal errors and SSD health, then sends a formatted embed to a Discord webhook.
## What Gets Monitored
- CPU usage (min/avg/max over 24h)
- Memory usage (min/avg/max over 24h)
- Load average (min/avg/max over 24h)
- Disk usage (current)
- SSD SMART health status
- System errors from journalctl
The report color-codes itself: green for OK, yellow for warnings (high usage or errors present), red for critical issues.
## Why This Approach?
- **No dependencies** - Just bash, cron, and curl
- **No services to manage** - Cron handles scheduling
- **Minimal resource usage** - A few KB of CSV data per day
- **Discord integration** - Notifications where I already am
- **Actionable** - Only alerts on actual issues with `--errors-only` mode
## Sample Output
The Discord embed shows a clean summary with all the stats at a glance. If there are errors in the journal, they're included in a code block at the bottom.
## Source
The scripts are available at [git.jawhng.xyz/jawhng/homelab-monitoring-webhook](https://git.jawhng.xyz/jawhng/homelab-monitoring-webhook).