Nightscout CGM Remote Monitor - Preinstalled Native Stack

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## Live Glucose Monitoring for Families and Care Teams - Running in Minutes

Nightscout (cgm-remote-monitor) is a widely used open source, self-hosted continuous glucose monitoring platform. It lets people with diabetes, their families and care teams store and visualise CGM data in real time through a live web dashboard and a documented REST API, so glucose readings from a sensor can be followed from any browser or shared with remote caregivers.

This image delivers the entire platform fully installed, hardened and reverse-proxied behind nginx. Your monitor is serving within minutes of launch with no container wiring, dependency troubleshooting or database bootstrapping required.

## What You Get: A Complete, Native Stack

Unlike a bare deployment, this image ships the full stack pre-wired and native:

• Node.js application compiled at build time (client bundle produced by the project's own webpack build), managed by systemd on the loopback interface
• MongoDB 7.0 Community configured with authentication enabled, bound to loopback only, with its data directory on a dedicated, independently resizable EBS data volume
• nginx serving the dashboard on the standard web port and reverse-proxying to the application
• The appliance derives its own public address at boot, so it works whether you reach it by instance IP or your own domain with no rebuild

## Secure by Default - No Shared Credentials

There are no default credentials. On first boot the image generates a unique API secret (Nightscout's shared passphrase that gates all write and administrative access) and a unique MongoDB database credential, then writes them to a root-only file on the instance. No shared password, database user or pre-seeded record exists in the image, and MongoDB is never exposed to the network. Access is denied by default (AUTH_DEFAULT_ROLES=denied): the dashboard and API are not world-readable or writable until the API secret is presented.

## Compatible With Popular CGM Uploaders

Nightscout works with common CGM uploaders and follower apps including xDrip+, AndroidAPS, Loop and Spike, which authenticate to the REST API by sending SHA1 of the API secret as the api-secret HTTP header. The dashboard provides real-time glucose graphs, care-portal treatment entry, alarms and a range of visualisation plugins.

## Getting Started

After launching the instance, SSH in and retrieve your unique API secret and MongoDB credential from the root-only file. Point your CGM uploader (xDrip+, Loop or AndroidAPS) at the instance's public address. To use a custom domain, configure a DNS record pointing to the instance and nginx will serve it automatically. The EBS data volume can be resized independently as your data grows. The paired cloudimg deploy guide walks through each step.

## 24/7 Support Included

cloudimg engineers assist with deployment, configuration, updates, performance tuning and troubleshooting around the clock.

## Licensing and Disclaimer

Nightscout / cgm-remote-monitor is free software licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (AGPL-3.0). The corresponding source code is available from the upstream project at github.com/nightscout/cgm-remote-monitor; the image ships the unmodified upstream release. Nightscout is a project of the Nightscout Foundation and is not a medical device; it is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and it does not replace professional medical advice or a prescribed monitoring device. All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and their use does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.