--- title: Lightweight Express.js Monitoring Without Prometheus and... description: A tutorial shows how to add lightweight operational monitoring to an Express.js application without running Prometheus and Grafana. A small statlite-metrics.js... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mevniynmz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Lightweight Express.js Monitoring Without Prometheus and Grafana | daily.dev og:description: A tutorial shows how to add lightweight operational monitoring to an Express.js application without running Prometheus and Grafana. A small statlite-metrics.js... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mevniynmz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mevNiyNmz.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Lightweight Express.js Monitoring Without Prometheus and Grafana **[Efficient Self-Hosting](https://daily.dev/sources/efficientselfhosting)** · [@ejboy](https://daily.dev/ejboy) · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A tutorial shows how to add lightweight operational monitoring to an Express.js application without running Prometheus and Grafana. A small statlite-metrics.js helper tracks request counts, 4xx/5xx errors, latency, CPU, and V8 heap usage via a /statlite/metrics JSON endpoint, which the StatLite tool polls and displays on a dashboard backed by SQLite. The piece covers the middleware code, wiring it into an Express app, configuring a StatLite target, running a demo, and production boundaries such as per-process counters in multi-process deployments and keeping the metrics endpoint private. Similar helpers exist for FastAPI, Django, Gin, and Go net/http, while Spring Boot and Quarkus use a first-party Actuator-based integration instead. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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