GoKawiilRunning one Spring Boot application or a handful of them on a VPS still calls for basic operational visibility. You need to know whether an application is reachable, whether errors are rising, and whether it restarted. You may not need a complete monitoring platform to answer those questions.
Spring Boot Actuator already exposes much of that information. StatLite turns it into a focused dashboard for health, requests, errors, latency, memory, uptime, and restarts. It runs as one Go binary and stores its history in SQLite.
Monitor Spring Boot without operating a full monitoring stack. View StatLite on GitHubInstallation instructions
Why the usual options can be more than you need
Actuator gives Spring Boot applications useful health and Micrometer metrics endpoints. They are excellent for integration, but repeatedly opening JSON endpoints is not a convenient everyday dashboard.
Spring Boot Admin adds broader application-administration features. Prometheus and Grafana are strong choices when you need a larger monitoring system, flexible queries, or shared dashboards across an estate.
For a few services on one VPS, a narrower dashboard can be enough. StatLite reads the Actuator data you already have and shows the operational signals most useful during routine checks.
The questions a small deployment needs answered
Is the application reachable and healthy?
Are errors increasing?
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