## Find the community app

Search for monitee in community applications. It can also be found under the Monitoring category.

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Krillsson/monitee-agent/master/docs/images/Screenshot-2025-03-24-at-20.28.37.png)

## Choose what you want to expose to the container

- **Docker monitoring mode:** exposes the docker socket on your machine for monitee-agent, so you can manage docker containers from the app.
- **Disks monitoring:** exposes the /dev directory and udev information so that monitee agent can read disk statistics

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Krillsson/monitee-agent/master/docs/images/Screenshot-2025-03-24-at-20.31.22.png)

### Disk devices for SMART monitoring

The container need device level access to be able to read SMART data using [smartmontools](https://www.smartmontools.org/). Add the disk devices you’d like to monitor here.

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Krillsson/monitee-agent/master/docs/images/Screenshot-2025-03-24-at-20.31.36.png)

## Network configuration

Specify what ports you’d like monitee-agent to bind to.

It’s recommended to leave Host Network option enabled. Without it, you won’t be able to see network statistics in the app.

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Krillsson/monitee-agent/master/docs/images/Screenshot-2025-03-24-at-21.01.27.png)

## Storage configuration

Storage for the */data* and */config* directory is standard procedure. You can leave it as is or configure it to your liking.

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Krillsson/monitee-agent/master/docs/images/Screenshot-2025-03-24-at-21.12.05.png)

In the additional storage section, add host path bindings for the datasets you’d like to monitor storage usage for. Here I have added the Applications dataset.

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Krillsson/monitee-agent/master/docs/images/Screenshot-2025-03-24-at-21.13.20.png)

## Change configuration

Start the container and wait until it has come up. Monitee agent will write default configuration files to the /config directory.

Use the TrueNAS shell to go to the config directory. Assuming you used the ix volumes option:

```bash
cd /mnt/.ix-apps/app_mounts/monitee-agent/config
```

Use nano to change the default username/password:

```bash
nano configuration.yml
```

```yaml
#########################################
### sys-API user configuration        ###
#########################################
#
# Line 20 
user: 
  username: user # <--- CHANGE ME
  password: password  # <--- AND ME
```

Press **CTRL+X** to exit nano (and press **Y** to save)

Restart the container

We can verify that the server is working by looking at the logs in the TrueNAS UI.

```bash
[...]: Tomcat started on ports 3036 (https), 3035 (http) with context path '/'
[...]: Started SysAPIApplicationKt in 6.352 seconds (process running for 7.234)
```

Now you are ready to proceed to next step

**Connect App to Server**