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    sqshq/sampler

    Tool for shell commands execution, visualization and alerting. Configured with a simple YAML file.

    monitoring
    analytics
    cli
    alerting
    charts
    cmd
    command-line
    command-line-tool
    Go
    GPL-3.0
    14.8K stars
    670 forks
    167 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 10, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    The project lists 14 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Executes shell commands periodically and visualizes their output with customizable charts and alerts using a simple YAML configuration.
    • Enables quick, serverless monitoring and alerting without complex setups like Prometheus or Grafana, ideal for lightweight development and debugging.
    • Use for monitoring system metrics or application status locally via shell commands with real-time visual feedback in the terminal.
    • Use for aggregating and visualizing telemetry from multiple remote servers through SSH without installing monitoring agents on each host.
    • Use for interactive polling of databases, message queues, or container stats by running commands in persistent shell sessions with conditional alerts.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    GPL 3.0

    Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.

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    • README: present

    Watch-outs

    • GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
    • Warning: No commits in over a year (last push Feb 2024).

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    From the README

    Sampler is a tool for shell commands execution, visualization and alerting. Configured with a simple YAML file.

    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.

    Excerpt from the sqshq/sampler README on GitHub (GPL-3.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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    Forks

    670+3

    Open issues

    69+7

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