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Carol Infra Monitor

Carol Infra Monitor

App Local psutil-based VM health for carol-vm self-monitoring (CAROL-INI-370)
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📖About & Usage

About

Carol Infra Monitor is a private, administrator-only health dashboard for the virtual machine that runs Carol’s services. It exists to answer a practical question quickly: Is Carol’s underlying computer healthy? The app watches local signals such as processor activity, memory use, disk space, and running processes, helping administrators spot strain or failure before it disrupts the wider Carol ecosystem.

The monitor uses psutil, a system-observation tool that reads health information directly from the machine. It runs as a single worker and is overseen by Hagrid, Carol’s Keeper of Keys. Its focused role complements broader operational views such as Carol Monitor, Sentinel Monitor, and Infra Audit Report.

Usage Patterns

Carol Infra Monitor is used during routine infrastructure checks, incident investigation, and maintenance. It may also be consulted when another Carol app becomes slow, stops responding, or behaves unpredictably. Because access is restricted to administrators, it acts as a backstage instrument rather than a public-facing service.

For example, if Carol Chat suddenly feels sluggish, an administrator can open Carol Infra Monitor to see whether the virtual machine is short on memory, unusually busy, or running low on disk space. That evidence helps distinguish a machine-wide problem from an issue inside one app, making the next troubleshooting step faster and less guessy.

🛰️Updates

Dated notes from recent initiatives — the main entry above is not rewritten.

Milestone2026-07-26

Carol Infra Monitor Carol Infra Monitor is now the primary VM health monitoring app after VM Metrics was retired for redundancy.

🗂️Tabs & Screens

Tab inventory is being built — see CAROL-INI-077 step 7.

👤Owner

Hagrid · Keeper of Keys

📚Recent initiatives

Initiatives that touched this app — a short summary each; open one for the full story.

CAROL-INI-3725-00: Carol Infra Monitor and Azure Cost Tracker down: restore, and bring the outlier port into the managed range
Ninad (2026-08-06): both apps found dead — last launched by the estate relaunch on 2026-08-03 22:56, still alive at the 2026-08-04 08:25 pass (skipped as running), died unlogged s\u2026
Orion · 2026-08-09 18:53
CAROL-INI-0375-00: Port BBs full Azure Infra UI to Carol Infra Monitor (visual parity)
Carol Infra Monitor (port 7173) currently uses a stripped-down stand-in UI. BBs actual Infra UI lives in _render_html (322 lines, gradient bg, sky-blue accent, VM-picker pills, 3\u2026
Orion · 2026-05-15 20:01
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