Monitor devices

Monitoring is off until you turn it on for a device. You choose what to collect: system metrics, process usage and logs from selected services.

Turn on monitoring

Dashboard
CLI

Open the device and go to the Monitoring tab.
Select Choose what to collect.
Choose how often to collect System metrics: every 15, 30 or 60 seconds.
Optionally, select Process metrics and choose services under Service logs.
Select Turn on monitoring.

The status changes to Starting collection, then Collecting once the device confirms the change.

Turn on system metrics:

suta device monitoring enable kitchen-pi

Also collect logs from specific services:

suta device monitoring enable kitchen-pi camera.service inference.service

Check the result:

suta device monitoring status kitchen-pi

What you can see

Metrics shows CPU usage, memory, disk space, temperature, network activity and disk activity for the last hour, 6 hours or 24 hours. Gaps in collection stay blank, and device restarts are marked.

Logs shows messages from the services you selected. You can:

Search for text, or exclude it.
Filter by service and severity.
Select Pause to stop new messages while you read, then Resume live.
Select Load earlier logs, or Show nearby logs around one message.

Processes shows CPU and memory per process, if you turned on process metrics. It shows names and process IDs only, never command lines or environment variables.

From the CLI:

suta device metrics kitchen-pi 6h
suta device logs kitchen-pi camera.service --since 15m
suta device logs kitchen-pi --search timeout

Change what’s collected

On the Monitoring tab, select Settings. You can change the sample interval, turn process metrics on or off, and choose services. To select many services at once, select Edit configuration and edit the JSON directly.

With the CLI, write the complete settings to a file and apply it:

{
  "enabled": true,
  "services": ["camera.service", "inference.service"],
  "process_metrics": false,
  "sample_interval_seconds": 30
}

suta device monitoring apply kitchen-pi settings.json

Turn off monitoring

Select the toggle on the Monitoring tab, then Turn off monitoring, or run:

suta device monitoring disable kitchen-pi

Your service choices are kept for next time. An offline device stops collecting when it reconnects.

Data retention

Suta keeps metrics and logs for 24 hours, then deletes them automatically. Data collected before you turned monitoring off stays visible until it’s 24 hours old.