How to Set Up Server Health Monitoring in HestiaCP

Prerequisites

Before setting up server health monitoring, make sure you have:

• Admin access to HestiaCP
• SSH access to your VPS

Built-in Health Monitoring in HestiaCP

Step 1: Log in to HestiaCP

https://YOUR_SERVER_IP:8083

Step 2: Navigate to SERVER Section

Click on SERVER in the top menu bar.

Step 3: View Health Statistics

The SERVER dashboard shows:

• CPU Usage - Current processor utilization
• RAM Usage - Memory consumption
• Storage - Disk space usage
• Network - Incoming/outgoing traffic
• System Load - Load average per CPU core
• Uptime - Server uptime

Enable Email Alerts for Critical Issues

Configure notifications:

nano /usr/local/hestia/conf/hestia.conf

Add:

DISK_ALERT='90'  # Alert when disk usage > 90%
LOAD_ALERT='4'   # Alert when load > 4
MEMORY_ALERT='90' # Alert when memory usage > 90%

Restart Hestia:

systemctl restart hestia

Command Line Health Checks

Check CPU info:

htop

Check memory:

free -h

Check disk:

df -h

Check load:

uptime

Create Health Monitoring Script

#!/bin/bash
# Health report
echo "=== Server Health Report ==="
echo "Time: $(date)"
echo "Uptime: $(uptime -p)"
echo "CPU Load: $(uptime | awk -F'load average:' '{print $2}')"
echo "Memory: $(free -h | grep Mem | awk '{print $3"/"$2}')"
echo "Disk: $(df -h / | awk 'NR==2 {print $5}' | sed 's/%//')% used"
echo "Connections: $(ss -tun | wc -l)"

Add to cron for hourly reporting.