michka

What michka is

Michka is a self-hosted dashboard for monitoring home servers and homelabs in a browser. It shows live CPU, memory, network, disk, temperature, and system-load readings, and can monitor systemd units on Linux and services on Windows. For several machines, a hub gathers metrics while lightweight agents send them over the network. Live updates stream over SSE, and a local SQLite file stores history; the maker says data stays on the user's network. The dashboard works offline because its assets are embedded, and the maker says it uses no cloud account or telemetry. Drop-in templates can change its appearance, while drop-in widgets add custom cards without rebuilding. The hub and agents run on Linux, with Debian as the primary target, and Windows; the dashboard works in a modern browser. On most Windows hardware, user-mode software cannot reliably obtain CPU temperatures, so Michka shows disk activity, process counts, and uptime instead of a temperature gauge. It is free to use on your own machines. The maker publishes SHA-256 checksums for downloads and directs users to GitHub for code, issues, and contributions.