Use glances to monitor a server resources (CPU, GPU) using browser

glances_install_setup

1- Install glances from its script to have latest version
2- (Ubuntu package is an old version), run with sudo -E -H
3- for root access preserving user environment and home dir
$ curl -L https://bit.ly/glances | sudo -E -H /bin/bash

4- Maybe py3nvml should also be installed for GPU monitoring:
$ sudo -E -H pip install py3nvml

5- Create dir: /etc/glances if it does not exist and edit:
6- /etc/glances/glances.conf; to allow some file systems and
7- hide others that may be cluttering the file systems list:
[fs]
allow=nfs,overlayfs
hide=/dev/loop*,/var/*,/usr/local/*

8- Create a systemd service to start glances web interface
$ sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/glancesweb.service

9- Content of glancesweb.service:
[Unit]
Description = Glances in Web Server Mode
After = network.target

[Service]
ExecStart = /usr/local/bin/glances --port 9123 --meangpu -w -t 5

[Install]
WantedBy = multi-user.target

10- Enable, start and check status of the new systemd service:
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl enable glancesweb.service
$ sudo systemctl start glancesweb.service
$ sudo systemctl status glancesweb.service

11- Or use service command to start or check status of the service:
$ sudo service glancesweb start
$ sudo service glancesweb status

12- Keep in mind the first glances web access take several minutes to show