sampler is a GPL licensed terminal data visualizer written in [[Go|Golang]]. - Website - [Github](https://github.com/sqshq/sampler) > Sampler is a tool for shell commands execution, visualization and alerting. Configured with a simple YAML file. # Notability Uses a configuration file to parse incoming data from any commandline process (like `tail` or `ping`) and generate graphs in an ANSI compatible terminal. > One can sample any dynamic process right from the terminal — observe changes in the database, monitor MQ in-flight messages, trigger a deployment script and get notification when it's done. > > If there is a way to get a metric using a shell command, then it can be visualized with Sampler momentarily. # Philosophy > Sampler is by no means an alternative to full-scale monitoring systems, but rather an easy to setup development tool. > > If spinning up and configuring Prometheus with Grafana is complete overkill for you task, Sampler might be the right solution. No servers, no databases, no deploy - you specify shell commands, and it just works. # OS Support Primarily works on [[Linux]] and [[MacOS]] but has some experimental [[Windows]] support. # Features > you can run Sampler on local, but still gather telemetry from multiple remote machines. Any visualization might have `init` command, where you can ssh to a remote server. See the [SSH example](https://github.com/sqshq/sampler#ssh) - Define your shell commands in a YAML configuration file - Run `sampler -c config.yml` - Adjust components size and location on UI