OWL Sight
Monitoring and observability platform. Unified dashboards for system health, alerting, and performance metrics.
Monitoring and observability platform. Unified dashboards for system health, alerting, and performance metrics.
OWL Sight
A unified monitoring and observability platform built for self-hosted infrastructure. Consolidates metrics, logs, and alerts from multiple services into a single coherent view.
The Problem
Running a homelab or a small production stack means juggling monitoring data from a dozen different sources. Each service has its own logging format, its own metrics endpoint, its own idea of what “healthy” means. Getting a unified view of system health requires either expensive SaaS tooling or hours of manual Prometheus/Grafana configuration.
OWL Sight provides an opinionated, pre-configured observability stack that works out of the box for common self-hosted setups.
What It Includes
- Go collector agent. Lightweight binary that scrapes metrics from Docker containers, host systems, and configured services
- Pre-built Grafana dashboards. Curated views for infrastructure health, service uptime, resource utilization, and alert history
- Alerting pipeline. Configurable rules with notifications via Slack, PagerDuty, or webhook
- Log aggregation. Structured log collection with search and filtering via Loki
- Docker-native. Single Compose file deploys the full stack
Architecture
The collector agent is written in Go for minimal resource overhead. It implements the Prometheus scrape protocol so it works with the existing Grafana/Prometheus ecosystem. Dashboards are provisioned automatically on first boot.
Design Philosophy
OWL Sight is opinionated by design. Rather than exposing every configuration knob, it makes sensible defaults for common setups and gets out of the way. The goal is useful observability in under 10 minutes, not maximum flexibility.