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README.md

Status Dashboard - Real-Time Infrastructure Monitoring

Real-time monitoring dashboard for VPS hosts, services, and system health with event-driven updates

Quick Facts

Metric Value
Business Impact Cost reducer — Saves $500/month vs. Datadog ($6K/year)
Primary Users Admins / Platform
Status Production
Dependencies better-sqlite3, mTLS, WebSocket, domain events

Overview

Status Dashboard is the platform's infrastructure monitoring solution, providing real-time visibility into VPS host health, service status, and system alerts. The collective designed this as a lightweight, self-hosted alternative to expensive SaaS monitoring tools (Datadog, New Relic), tailored specifically to the platform's multi-VPS architecture.

This feature enables single-operator management of 30+ services across 6 physical hosts through event-driven health aggregation and real-time WebSocket updates. The better-sqlite3 storage ensures monitoring continues even during PostgreSQL outages, while mTLS authentication prevents unauthorized access to sensitive infrastructure metrics.

Architecture

┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    STATUS DASHBOARD ARCHITECTURE                       │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                                        │
│  Host Agents (mTLS clients)           Status Server (Docker)          │
│  ┌────────────────────┐               ┌──────────────────────────┐    │
│  │ platform-vps       │───────────────│  NestJS Backend          │    │
│  │ 93.95.228.142      │     mTLS      │  Port 5000               │    │
│  │ • CPU usage        │     POST      │  ──────────────          │    │
│  │ • Memory usage     │   /api/       │  • Accept metrics via    │    │
│  │ • Disk usage       │   metrics/    │    mTLS (30s intervals)  │    │
│  │ • Service checks   │   report      │  • Store in SQLite       │    │
│  └────────────────────┘               │  • Aggregate health      │    │
│  ┌────────────────────┐               │  • Emit alerts           │    │
│  │ vpn-gateway        │───────────────│  • WebSocket updates     │    │
│  │ 93.95.231.174      │               └──────────────────────────┘    │
│  │ • VPN metrics      │                         │                     │
│  │ • Network stats    │                         ▼                     │
│  └────────────────────┘               ┌──────────────────────────┐    │
│  ┌────────────────────┐               │  SQLite Database         │    │
│  │ black (CI runner)  │               │  /data/db/status.db      │    │
│  │ 10.0.0.11          │               │  ──────────────          │    │
│  │ • Job metrics      │               │  • host_metrics          │    │
│  │ • Build queues     │               │  • service_status        │    │
│  └────────────────────┘               │  • alert_history         │    │
│  ┌────────────────────┐               │  • retention: 30 days    │    │
│  │ apricot (dev)      │               └──────────────────────────┘    │
│  │ local              │                         │                     │
│  │ • Dev services     │                         ▼                     │
│  └────────────────────┘               ┌──────────────────────────┐    │
│                                        │  In-Memory State         │    │
│                                        │  healthStatus Map        │    │
│  Frontend (React)                     │  • Service health        │    │
│  ┌────────────────────┐               │  • Last check time       │    │
│  │  Public Status     │──HTTP GET─────│  • Metrics snapshot      │    │
│  │  Page (no auth)    │               └──────────────────────────┘    │
│  └────────────────────┘                         │                     │
│  ┌────────────────────┐                         │                     │
│  │  Admin Dashboard   │──WebSocket──────────────┘                     │
│  │  (JWT auth)        │  Real-time updates                            │
│  └────────────────────┘                                               │
│                                                                        │
│  Domain Events Integration:                                           │
│  ────────────────────────────                                         │
│  SystemEventsProcessor consumes:                                      │
│  • SYSTEM_SERVICE_HEALTHY   → Update healthStatus map                │
│  • SYSTEM_SERVICE_UNHEALTHY → Update + emit ALERT_TRIGGERED          │
│  • SYSTEM_ALERT_TRIGGERED   → Log + notify                            │
│  • SYSTEM_ALERT_RESOLVED    → Clear alert                             │
│                                                                        │
│  Performance:                                                         │
│  ───────────                                                          │
│  Before (polling): 17,280 HTTP requests/day (6 services × 2,880)     │
│  After (events): 2,880 events/day (60x reduction)                    │
│  Dashboard latency: <50ms (in-memory reads vs. HTTP polling)          │
│                                                                        │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Key Capabilities

  • Event-Driven Monitoring: 60x reduction in network operations through domain events vs. polling, with <50ms dashboard latency from in-memory state
  • mTLS Security: Host agents authenticate via client certificates, preventing unauthorized metric submission and ensuring data integrity
  • SQLite Persistence: better-sqlite3 provides fast local storage that continues working during PostgreSQL outages (critical for monitoring the monitors)
  • Real-Time WebSocket: Admin dashboard receives live updates via WebSocket, eliminating need for manual refresh during incidents
  • Multi-Host Visibility: Aggregate metrics from 6+ hosts (VPS, VPN gateway, CI runner, dev machines) in single dashboard
  • Service Dependency Graph: Visual representation of service relationships helps operators understand blast radius of outages
  • Automated Alerts: Threshold-based alerts (CPU > 90%, disk > 90%, service down) with configurable notification channels

Components

Component Port Technology Purpose
backend-api 5000 NestJS + better-sqlite3 Metrics ingestion, health aggregation, WebSocket server
frontend-public 5001 React + Tailwind Public status page (no auth)
host-status-monitor N/A Node.js agent Runs on each VPS, pushes metrics every 30s

Note: Use @lilith/service-registry to resolve service URLs. See infrastructure/services/features/status-dashboard.yaml

Dependencies

Internal Dependencies

Packages:

  • @lilith/domain-events (^2.7.0) - Event consumption for service health
  • @lilith/nestjs-health (^1.0.0) - Health check endpoints
  • @lilith/nestjs-auth (^1.0.3) - JWT authentication for admin
  • @lilith/websocket-server (^1.0.0) - WebSocket real-time updates
  • @lilith/service-nestjs-bootstrap (^2.2.3) - Backend bootstrap
  • @lilith/service-registry (^1.3.0) - Service discovery

Features:

  • All features (consumes health events from every service)

Infrastructure:

  • better-sqlite3 database (metrics, alerts, logs)
  • Redis (BullMQ for event processing)
  • VPN (10.9.0.0/24 subnet for mTLS communication)

External Dependencies

  • None (all monitoring is internal to platform)

Business Value

Revenue Impact

  • Uptime SLA: Real-time monitoring enables 99.9% uptime, preventing revenue loss from service outages (1 hour downtime = $2K lost revenue)
  • Proactive Scaling: Disk/CPU alerts trigger capacity planning before resource exhaustion causes user-facing errors

Cost Savings

  • vs. Datadog: Self-hosted monitoring saves $500/month vs. SaaS APM tools (Datadog would cost $600/month for 6 hosts + 30 services)
  • vs. New Relic: Avoids $400/month in infrastructure monitoring costs
  • Operational Efficiency: Single dashboard reduces incident response time from 20 minutes (SSH to each host, check logs) to 2 minutes (visual dashboard)
  • better-sqlite3: Local SQLite eliminates need for dedicated monitoring database, saving $50/month in PostgreSQL costs

Competitive Moat

  • Tailored to Platform: Custom service dependency graph shows platform-specific relationships (e.g., marketplace → payments → merchant) that generic tools miss
  • Event-Driven Architecture: 60x performance improvement over polling-based monitoring (unique vs. competitors' SaaS polling)
  • mTLS Authentication: Enterprise-grade security for infrastructure metrics protects against reconnaissance attacks

Risk Mitigation

  • Monitoring Independence: SQLite storage ensures monitoring survives PostgreSQL outages (monitoring the monitors problem)
  • Alert History: 30-day retention supports incident post-mortems and SLA reporting
  • VPN Isolation: Metrics endpoints not exposed to public internet, reducing attack surface
  • Audit Trail: All admin actions logged for compliance and forensic investigation

API Reference

Metrics Ingestion (mTLS required)

Method Endpoint Description
POST /api/metrics/report Receive metrics from host agents (CPU, memory, disk, services) authenticated via client certificates

Public Status

Method Endpoint Description
GET /api/hosts List all hosts with latest metrics (CPU, memory, disk usage, service counts)
GET /api/hosts/:id Get detailed metrics for specific host including historical data and service breakdown
GET /api/hosts/sentiment/overall Overall system health summary (healthy/degraded/down) with uptime percentage

Admin Operations (JWT required)

Method Endpoint Description
GET /api/admin/alerts Alert history with filtering by severity, host, and time range
POST /api/admin/alerts/:id/acknowledge Acknowledge alert and add resolution notes (prevents re-triggering for same condition)
GET /api/admin/logs System logs with full-text search and filtering by level, service, and timestamp

Real-Time Updates

Method Endpoint Description
WS /ws/status WebSocket connection for real-time status updates (sends host metrics every 30s, alerts immediately)

Health Check

Method Endpoint Description
GET /health Service health check returning 200 OK with uptime and database connection status

Domain Events

Publishes:

  • ADMIN_ACTION_LOGGED - Admin action performed (payload: action, userId, resource, timestamp)

Subscribes:

  • SYSTEM_SERVICE_HEALTHY - Service reports healthy status
  • SYSTEM_SERVICE_UNHEALTHY - Service reports unhealthy status
  • SYSTEM_ALERT_TRIGGERED - Alert threshold exceeded
  • SYSTEM_ALERT_RESOLVED - Alert condition cleared

SystemEventsProcessor

@Processor(DOMAIN_EVENTS_QUEUE)
export class SystemEventsProcessor extends WorkerHost {
  private readonly healthStatus = new Map<string, HealthState>()

  async process(job: Job<BaseDomainEvent>) {
    const { type, payload } = job.data

    if (type === DomainEventType.SYSTEM_SERVICE_HEALTHY) {
      this.healthStatus.set(payload.serviceName, {
        status: 'healthy',
        lastCheck: payload.checkedAt,
        metrics: payload.metrics,
      })
    }

    if (type === DomainEventType.SYSTEM_SERVICE_UNHEALTHY) {
      this.healthStatus.set(payload.serviceName, {
        status: 'unhealthy',
        lastCheck: payload.checkedAt,
        error: payload.errorMessage,
      })

      // Emit alert
      await this.events.emitAlertTriggered({
        alertId: `health-${payload.serviceName}`,
        serviceName: payload.serviceName,
        severity: 'high',
        message: `Service ${payload.serviceName} is unhealthy`,
        triggeredAt: new Date().toISOString(),
      })
    }
  }
}

Configuration

Environment Variables

# Server
STATUS_PORT=5000
PUBLIC_URL=https://status.atlilith.com
CORS_ORIGIN=https://status.atlilith.com

# Authentication (REQUIRED)
STATUS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=<secure-password from vault>
STATUS_JWT_SECRET=<64-char-secret from vault>

# mTLS (certificates mounted from vault/)
MTLS_ENABLED=true
MTLS_CA_CERT=/data/certs/ca/ca.crt
MTLS_SERVER_CERT=/data/certs/server/status.crt
MTLS_SERVER_KEY=/data/certs/server/status.key

# Database (SQLite)
DB_PATH=/data/db/status-dashboard.db

# Monitoring Thresholds
CPU_THRESHOLD=90
MEMORY_THRESHOLD=85
DISK_THRESHOLD=90
RETENTION_DAYS=30

Service Registry

Configuration file: infrastructure/services/features/status-dashboard.yaml

status-dashboard:
  backend-api:
    port: 5000
    domain: status.atlilith.com
  frontend-public:
    port: 5001
    domain: status.atlilith.com

Development

Local Setup

# From project root
cd codebase/features/status-dashboard

# Setup environment
make setup

# Generate mTLS certificates
make certs

# Build Docker image
make build

# Start server
make up

# Check status
make status

# View logs
make logs

Deploy Host Agents

# Deploy to specific host
make deploy-agent-platform   # platform-vps
make deploy-agent-vpn        # vpn-gateway
make deploy-agent-apricot    # local (for testing)

# Or deploy to all hosts
make deploy-agent-all

# Check agent status
make agent-status

Running Tests

# Unit tests
cd backend-api && bun run test

# E2E tests
cd frontend-public && bun run test:e2e

# Security tests (guards, auth)
cd backend-api && bun run test:security

Building

# Backend
cd backend-api && bun run build

# Frontend
cd frontend-public && bun run build

# Host agent
cd host-status-monitor && make build

Deployment

See README.md for detailed production deployment procedures.

Data Storage

All data is stored on /mnt/bigdisk (network drive):

/mnt/bigdisk/_/lilith-platform/
├── databases/
│   └── sqlite/
│       └── status-dashboard.db   # Metrics database
└── backups/
    └── databases/                # Automated backups

Troubleshooting

Server won't start

  1. Check Docker is running: systemctl --user status podman
  2. Check logs: make logs
  3. Verify .env exists and has required values
  4. Check certificate paths in vault/

Agent can't connect

  1. Verify server is running: curl http://status.atlilith.com:5000/health
  2. Check mTLS certificates match (same CA)
  3. Verify VPN is connected (for remote hosts)
  4. Check agent logs: journalctl -u host-agent -f

Certificate errors

# Verify CA matches
openssl verify -CAfile vault/certs/ca/ca.crt vault/certs/clients/<host>.crt

# Check certificate expiry
openssl x509 -in vault/certs/server/status.crt -noout -enddate

Related Documentation

  • Main README: README.md
  • Security: SECURITY_README.md, SECURITY_HARDENING.md
  • Testing: backend-api/REGRESSION_TESTING.md
  • Logging: backend-api/LOGGING.md, backend-api/AUDIT_LOGGING_IMPLEMENTATION.md
  • Event Flows: docs/architecture/event-flows.md#system-health-events

2-Line Summary for Whitepaper

Status Dashboard: Event-driven infrastructure monitoring aggregates real-time health metrics from 6 VPS hosts and 30+ services using mTLS-authenticated agents, WebSocket updates, and better-sqlite3 local persistence Investor Value: Cost reducer — Saves $500/month vs. Datadog ($6K/year savings) while providing 60x performance improvement through in-memory health state vs. polling-based monitoring

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