Deploy and Host Kula on Railway

About Hosting

Kula is a lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool. It collects metrics from /proc and /sys, stores them in a local ring-buffer engine, and serves a real-time dashboard plus health endpoints. Hosting Kula on Railway gives you a public HTTPS dashboard with minimal setup — no external database or complex infrastructure required.

Tech Stack

• Go backend binary with embedded SPA UI
• Local filesystem ring-buffer storage (no external database)
• Docker image: c0m4r/kula:0.13.0

Why Deploy Kula on Railway

• Fast image-based deployment from a pinned upstream tag
• Public HTTPS domain for dashboard and health checks out of the box
• Minimal operational overhead with straightforward env-based configuration
• No external database or sidecar services required

Common Use Cases

• Monitor a single VPS or bare-metal Linux host
• Add simple observability to home-lab infrastructure
• Run a lightweight monitoring dashboard without Prometheus/Grafana complexity
• Expose health check endpoints for uptime monitoring integrations

Dependencies for Kula

Kula has no external service dependencies. It runs as a single self-contained container with all storage handled via local filesystem ring-buffer.

Deployment Dependencies

Required Environment Variables

Notes

• This deployment uses the upstream Docker image and keeps its default entrypoint/CMD (no startCommand override).
• No persistent volume is attached in this run; metrics data is ephemeral unless a volume is a