# Fusebox: SSH Server Monitor — For Linux, Docker & homelab > For Linux, Docker & homelab (iPhone/iPad app by GUSTAVO MARTIN ORTEGA MARMENTI.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fusebox-ssh-server-monitor/id6766273901 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [GUSTAVO MARTIN ORTEGA MARMENTI](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896262097) - Category: Utilities, Developer Tools - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 13 MB - Languages: American English, German (Germany), Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish - Released: 2026-05-06 - Data updated: 2026-09-07 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fusebox-ssh-server-monitor/id6766273901/reviews.md ## What is Fusebox? Your server tells you what is wrong. Fusebox is the app that listens. It connects straight over SSH — no agent to install on the machine, no account, no cloud in the middle. Your credentials never leave your phone. WHAT IT WATCHES CPU, memory, disk, network and uptime, live. Temperature and throttling when the machine has sensors. Load average, per-core usage, disk I/O. WHAT IT RECOGNIZES Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, Home Assistant, Plex, Jellyfin, Node-RED, Mosquitto, Zigbee2MQTT, OctoPrint, Portainer, Uptime Kuma, Frigate, Syncthing, Grafana, Transmission and Tailscale. It finds them on their own, tells you which are running and which are only pretending to, and knows the difference between a service you stopped and one that died. DOCKER, SYSTEMD AND HOMEBREW Start, stop and restart containers and units from your phone. On a Mac it reads Homebrew services instead of systemd units, and asks launchctl whether each one is actually running rather than trusting what Homebrew declares. Read logs without opening a terminal, and open one when you want to. THE VERDICT Not a grade. One sentence saying what is wrong, the findings ranked worst first, and the exact command for each one. Checks that cannot run on your machine say so instead of quietly scoring full marks. WORKS ON A PI, ON LINUX, AND ON A MAC A Raspberry Pi, a VPS, a NAS, a Proxmox container, an old laptop, a Mac mini running as a server. It asks each machine what it can report and shows only that: no empty cards, no invented zeros. macOS exposes no temperature, disk I/O or CPU frequency over SSH, so the app says that on screen instead of leaving a gap you have to interpret. Free for 7 days with everything unlocked. After that, $7.99 once. No subscription. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | PiHelm Pro | $7.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.5.0 — 2026-09-03 Fusebox now takes SSH keys. Import an Ed25519 key, with or without a passphrase, and connect with it. The app used to tell you to run ssh-keygen and then refuse the key it told you to make: it accepted RSA only, which OpenSSH 8.8 and later turn off by default. RSA still works, warned about at import rather than failing at connect, and ECDSA, PEM and PuTTY keys are each refused by name with the command that converts them. Your keys live in their own screen now. You can see what you have, correct a passphrase you saved wrong, and delete one you no longer use. Storing a key in iCloud Keychain is per key and off by default, and both turning it on and turning it off ask first: one moves a private key off this iPhone, the other removes it from your other devices. There is a file browser. Walk the server over SFTP, download a file to your phone, send one back. Uploads are staged under a temporary name and renamed into place, so a cancelled transfer leaves the file on your server exactly as it was instead of half written. Deleting stays behind a switch you have to arm, and still asks, naming the file. Fixed: connecting while already connected left the old connection open on the server. Enough of those and the host started refusing new ones, which read as the app being unreliable rather than as a leak. Fixed: the System tab disappeared on any machine running Docker, taking History, Terminal, Files and Keys with it. You can also choose which server the app opens with, straight from the server list, and the add-server form now states which credential it is about to connect with instead of leaving you to work it out. ### 1.4.0 — 2026-09-03 Fusebox now has a real terminal. Open it from any server and you get a full terminal emulator over the same SSH connection: colours, arrow keys, and commands that ask you something and wait for the answer. Run top, tail a log, edit a file, type a password when sudo asks for one. Fixed, and this is the one that matters: the app could stop answering after a while and show every server as offline. It was opening a new SSH channel for each reading and never closing it, so the server refused new ones once it hit its limit. Channels now close after every command. Also fixed: a reading that failed showed the server as empty instead of saying it could not be read. Commands that need sudo now run. Saved custom commands are no longer lost when the app updates. The Services tab no longer disappears on machines that run containers. ### 1.3.1 — 2026-09-01 Fusebox now watches Macs. Point it at a Mac mini or any Mac you run as a server and you get the same screen you get on a Pi: what's wrong stated in a sentence, the services it found, and the commands to fix it. It reads Homebrew services instead of systemd units, and it says out loud which readings macOS doesn't expose over SSH rather than showing you a zero. The main screen was rebuilt around that sentence. The wall of metric cards collapsed into four vitals, findings are ranked worst first, and each server in your list now shows what kind of machine it is and how it was doing the last time you looked. Fixed: a server with more than one core could be reported as overloaded when it wasn't. ### 1.2.0 — 2026-08-28 PiHelm now recognises what your Pi is actually running. Pi-hole, Home Assistant, Plex, Jellyfin, Frigate, Syncthing, Portainer, OctoPrint and more are detected on their own, each with its own card. Every service shows whether it is really answering, not just whether the process is up — the difference between something that works and something that is hung. If a service you expect to be running goes down, PiHelm tells you, even with the app closed. One you stopped on purpose stays quiet: the app reads what your system declares instead of guessing. Nothing to install on the Pi. Still just SSH. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-24 PiHelm now verifies your Raspberry Pi's identity on every connection, the same way SSH does on your computer. If the server key changes, you'll know about it before any credential is sent. The first connection to each Pi is manual, once, so the app can store its key. Now supported from iOS 17 onwards — you no longer need the latest system version. 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