StatLite 0.3.0: simpler setup with automatic application discovery

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StatLite is a lightweight, self-hosted monitoring dashboard for Spring Boot applications and small-server deployments. It provides focused health, traffic, latency, CPU, and memory metrics without requiring Prometheus or Grafana.

StatLite 0.3.0 makes getting started much simpler: point statlite inspect at your application, and it detects the supported metrics endpoint and generates the target configuration for you.

What’s new in 0.3.0

Discover applications with statlite inspect

statlite inspect 'http://localhost:8080'

The new command detects supported Spring Boot Actuator and StatLite Metrics v1 endpoints, validates the application, and prints ready-to-use target YAML.

Inspection is bounded and read-only. It works without an existing statlite.yaml and provides actionable results for authentication, connectivity, ambiguous endpoints, and unsupported applications.

More efficient Spring polling

Equivalent Spring requests are now deduplicated, and repeated failures are coalesced. This reduces unnecessary work while preserving useful polling and restart information.

More reliable dashboard startup

Dashboard readiness now follows the active StatLite run, with clearer behavior when a series is temporarily empty or a request fails during startup.

Try it in 30 seconds

docker run --rm \
  -p 127.0.0.1:9090:9090 \
  ghcr.io/pvrlabs/statlite:latest

Open http://127.0.0.1:9090. StatLite monitors itself by default, so the dashboard starts with live data.

Learn more

• StatLite on GitHub
• StatLite 0.3.0 release
• Documentation and installation
• Lightweight Spring Boot monitoring without Prometheus and Grafana
• Complete changelog

Feedback on the new inspection workflow is especially welcome.