Self host a Beszel Hub to monitor servers and containers

In this screencast we’re looking at self hosted Beszel, a lightweight server monitoring platform that’s ideal for small businesses that run cloud servers or on‑prem machines and want visibility without a heavy monitoring stack.

For example, imagine a small web agency hosting client sites in Docker. You want to know if a container is slowly eating memory, if disk space is getting tight, or if bandwidth spikes are happening at peak times. Beszel gives you a clear dashboard with history and alerts, so you can catch issues before a client notices.

Install the Beszel hub, enroll an agent on your Docker server, confirm metrics are flowing, and add alerts so you hear about problems early.

Formable's Beszel Hub Portainer stack docker-compose.yml

services:
  beszel:
    image: henrygd/beszel:${APP_VERSION}
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - ${APP_PORT}:8090
    volumes:
      - app_data:/beszel_data

volumes:
   app_data: