Cockpit Intel GPU Overview

Cockpit extension that shows Intel Arc Pro B60 GPU telemetry collected from xpu-smi, for Linux hosts that already run Cockpit. It was written for one host (an Arc Pro B60 on an apt-based Linux system); other hardware and distributions are not covered here.

The project has three parts:

• A root-owned systemd exporter that polls xpu-smi and writes read-only JSON to /run/cockpit-intel-gpu/metrics.json plus minute history to /run/cockpit-intel-gpu/history.json.
• A Cockpit package that renders the telemetry as a GPU page, inserts separate GPU and GPU memory rows into the Overview page Usage card, adds a standalone Overview GPU card, and adds a GPU card to the Metrics page.
• The upstream Cockpit Sensors package backed by lm-sensors for host temperature, fan, voltage, and power-style values exposed through the kernel hwmon stack.

The exporter runs as root because Intel GPU utilization and temperature metrics require MEI device access on this host.

Install

From the repository root on the target host:

sudo ./scripts/install.sh

Then refresh the Cockpit browser tab.

The installer needs root, installs lm-sensors through apt-get (it exits on hosts without apt-get unless sensors is already present), downloads the Cockpit Sensors package from its GitHub releases unless /usr/share/cockpit/sensors already exists, and edits Cockpit's Overview and Metrics index.html files, saving .cockpit-intel-gpu.bak backups beside them.

This host currently uses xpu-smi from the Intel graphics package feed. Intel's full xpumanager package conflicts with xpu-smi, so do not install both on the same system. Keep xpu-smi for the Cockpit page unless you explicitly want to switch to the full XPU Manager daemon for REST/Prometheus workflows.

Files Installed

• /usr/local/libexec/cockpit-intel-gpu-exporter
• /etc/systemd/system/cockpit-intel-gpu-exporter.service
• /usr/local/share/cockpit/intel-gpu/
• /usr/share/cockpit/sensors/
• /usr/share/cockpit/systemd/overview-intel-gpu.js
• /usr/share/cockpit/systemd/overview-intel-gpu.css
• /usr/share/cockpit/metrics/metrics-intel-gpu.js
• /usr/share/cockpit/metrics/metrics-intel-gpu.css
• Small script/style references in /usr/share/cockpit/systemd/index.html and /usr/share/cockpit/metrics/index.html

Uninstall

sudo ./scripts/uninstall.sh

License

MIT. See LICENSE.