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GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers

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Re: GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers

#41
TBH this seems useful only for a very select niche.

If you're a company and you have several GPU machines in a cluster, then this is kinda useless b/c you'd have to go on each container or node to view the dashboard.

Sure, there's a cost to using opentelemetry + whatever storage+viz backend, but once it's set up you can actually do alerting, historical views, analysis, etc. easily.

Re: GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers

#42
post #3

Obligatory reminder that "GPU utilisation" as a percentage is meaningless metric and does not tell you how well your GPU is utilised. Does not change the usefulness of this dashboard, just wanted to point it out.

@dang sorry for the meta-comment, but why is yfontana's comment dead? I found it pretty insightful.

I think I was shadow-banned because my very first comment on the site was slightly snarky, and have now been unbanned.

Re: GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers

#43

I’m skeptical of “no ssh” being a benefit. I’d rather have one port opened to the battle tested ssh proc (which I probably have already anyway), than open a port to some random application. I suppose it’s trivial to proxy a http port over ssh though so that would seem like a good solution

i mean i dont have to ssh over my local gpu server every time i want to have a quick look on the gpus

that’s true, this would be pretty convenient for local environments

Re: GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers

#44
This looks neat and would probably be cool to run on one of my passive info screens. But until it supports more than just Nvidia I'll have to stick with nvtop. Might be a good idea to pull the theme out to a file so it's all swappable too (assuming you haven't, I can't look at the code right now.)

Re: GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers

#45
post #35

half readable color scheme.. random python and javascript mixed in, ships with 2 python CVEs out of the box out of 5 total dependencies... yep it checks out bois...certified infested slop python-socketio==5.8.0: 1 CVE (CVE-2025-61765); Remote Code Execution via malicious pickle deserialization in multi-server setups. eventlet==0.33.3: 1 CVE (CVE-2025-58068); HTTP request smuggling from improper trailer handling. And…

I mean the python-socketio is from a few days ago and likely doesn't affect this package (it's not using message queues, right?)

Eventlet .33 is ancient, no idea why they would use that.

With this said, most people should have some kind of SCA to ensure they're not using ancient packages. Conversely picking up a package the day it's released has bit a lot of people when the repository in question gets pwned.

Re: GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers

#46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how so?

"Utilization" tells you the percentage of your GPU's SM that currently have at least one thread assigned to them. It does not at all take into count how much that thread is actually using the core to it's capacity. So if e.g. your thread is locked waiting on some data from another GPU (NCCL) and actually doing nothing, it will still show 100% utilisation. A good way to realize that is when a NCCL call timeout after 3…

This is a great explanation, thank you!

Re: GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers

#47
Some negativity in the comments here.

I think it’s super cool. Clean design. Great for your local self-hosted system or one of your local company systems in the office.

If you have a fleet of GPUs then maybe use your SSH CLI. This is fun and cool looking though.

Re: GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers

#49

Hi everyone, I just built a GPU dashboard to check the utilization on NVIDIA cards directly in your browser. It also works with multiple GPUs. The idea is to have real-time metrics from a remote GPU server instead of running nvidia-smi. Let me know if you try it out!

Hey I rly like your project! And kinda amused by the comments here... Would love to chat more about it if you're down. My contact's in my profile :)
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