https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/e7cbfa68-afa0-4f1c-a550-69c2c12ac9b0 ElfBot basics: how to set an environment variable, restart an app, and check an app's usage on ElfHosted. ElfBot is your control panel for every ElfHosted app. Open your apps dashboard, and you'll find it under Tools. Every app has a card. To set an environment variable, click the app's "..." button, then Environment Variables. Paste the line from the app's docs into Quick Paste (for Grocy's currency, GROCY_CURRENCY with your own currency code), click Add to Form, then Save. Saving restarts the app by itself, so the new setting is live a moment later. To restart an app, click Restart on its card: it restarts straight away, with no confirmation. Force Restart, under Advanced, is for an app that's properly stuck. To check an app's usage, look at the CPU and memory on its card, or open Metrics for charts over the last hour, 6 hours or 24 hours. Sam, the assistant in your dashboard, can do a lot of this too: he checks CPU, memory and storage usage, restarts apps, and sets the variables an app's docs list for you, but only once you confirm. And if you'd rather talk to a person, the ElfHosted team is on Discord around the clock, across time zones, in a family-friendly, carefully moderated server. ElfHosted docs: https://docs.elfhosted.com/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=howto-elfbot Grocy on ElfHosted (docs): https://docs.elfhosted.com/app/grocy/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=howto-elfbot Sam (docs): https://docs.elfhosted.com/app/sam/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=howto-elfbot ElfHosted: https://elfhosted.com/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=howto-elfbot Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:14 Open ElfBot 0:53 Check your usage About ElfHosted: we run open-source apps for you, kept updated and looked after by elves, so you get the apps without the upkeep. [s]elf-hosting without [s]uffering. https://elfhosted.com?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video #ElfBot #HowTo #ElfHosted Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:55:11 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.elfhosted.com https://video.elfhosted.com/lazy-static/avatars/0ad9ef41-d7cc-447f-b89c-24dcddbb6422.png https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/e7cbfa68-afa0-4f1c-a550-69c2c12ac9b0 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.elfhosted.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.