diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/host-metric-sampler.test.ts b/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/host-metric-sampler.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..73d30c396
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/host-metric-sampler.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach, afterEach } from "vitest";
+import type { PrismaClient } from "@/generated/prisma/client";
+import {
+  captureHostMetric,
+  getHostMetricRetentionDays,
+  runHostMetricTick,
+  DEFAULT_HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS,
+} from "../host-metric-sampler";
+
+function makePrismaMock() {
+  return {
+    hostMetric: {
+      create: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({}),
+      deleteMany: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({ count: 3 }),
+    },
+  } as unknown as PrismaClient;
+}
+
+const ORIGINAL_ENV = { ...process.env };
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  process.env = { ...ORIGINAL_ENV };
+  delete process.env.HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS;
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  process.env = ORIGINAL_ENV;
+  vi.restoreAllMocks();
+});
+
+describe("getHostMetricRetentionDays", () => {
+  it("returns 7 days when env is unset", () => {
+    expect(getHostMetricRetentionDays()).toBe(
+      DEFAULT_HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("respects a valid override", () => {
+    process.env.HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS = "14";
+    expect(getHostMetricRetentionDays()).toBe(14);
+  });
+
+  it("ignores nonsensical values (NaN, 0, negative)", () => {
+    process.env.HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS = "0";
+    expect(getHostMetricRetentionDays()).toBe(
+      DEFAULT_HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS,
+    );
+    process.env.HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS = "-100";
+    expect(getHostMetricRetentionDays()).toBe(
+      DEFAULT_HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS,
+    );
+    process.env.HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS = "not a number";
+    expect(getHostMetricRetentionDays()).toBe(
+      DEFAULT_HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS,
+    );
+  });
+});
+
+describe("captureHostMetric", () => {
+  it("returns load + memory fields and forwards disk-stats output", async () => {
+    const sample = await captureHostMetric(async () => ({
+      readBytes: BigInt(12345),
+      writeBytes: BigInt(67890),
+    }));
+
+    expect(typeof sample.loadAvg1).toBe("number");
+    expect(typeof sample.loadAvg5).toBe("number");
+    expect(typeof sample.loadAvg15).toBe("number");
+    // Two-decimal precision keeps Postgres rows compact.
+    expect(sample.loadAvg1).toBe(Math.round(sample.loadAvg1 * 100) / 100);
+
+    expect(typeof sample.memUsedBytes).toBe("bigint");
+    expect(typeof sample.memTotalBytes).toBe("bigint");
+    expect(sample.memTotalBytes).toBeGreaterThan(BigInt(0));
+    expect(sample.memUsedBytes).toBeLessThanOrEqual(sample.memTotalBytes);
+
+    expect(sample.diskReadBytes).toBe(BigInt(12345));
+    expect(sample.diskWriteBytes).toBe(BigInt(67890));
+  });
+
+  it("returns null disk fields when the diskstats reader returns null", async () => {
+    const sample = await captureHostMetric(async () => null);
+
+    expect(sample.diskReadBytes).toBeNull();
+    expect(sample.diskWriteBytes).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("returns null disk fields when the diskstats reader throws", async () => {
+    const sample = await captureHostMetric(async () => {
+      throw new Error("EACCES /proc/diskstats");
+    });
+
+    expect(sample.diskReadBytes).toBeNull();
+    expect(sample.diskWriteBytes).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+describe("runHostMetricTick", () => {
+  it("inserts a sample row and prunes expired rows", async () => {
+    const prisma = makePrismaMock();
+    const now = new Date("2026-05-09T12:00:00Z");
+
+    const result = await runHostMetricTick(prisma, {
+      now,
+      captureFn: async () => ({
+        loadAvg1: 0.42,
+        loadAvg5: 0.55,
+        loadAvg15: 0.61,
+        memUsedBytes: BigInt(4_000_000_000),
+        memTotalBytes: BigInt(8_000_000_000),
+        diskReadBytes: BigInt(1_000),
+        diskWriteBytes: BigInt(2_000),
+      }),
+    });
+
+    expect(result).toEqual({ inserted: 1, pruned: 3 });
+
+    expect(prisma.hostMetric.create).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(prisma.hostMetric.create).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      data: {
+        capturedAt: now,
+        loadAvg1: 0.42,
+        loadAvg5: 0.55,
+        loadAvg15: 0.61,
+        memUsedBytes: BigInt(4_000_000_000),
+        memTotalBytes: BigInt(8_000_000_000),
+        diskReadBytes: BigInt(1_000),
+        diskWriteBytes: BigInt(2_000),
+      },
+    });
+
+    // 7-day cutoff by default.
+    const expectedCutoff = new Date(now.getTime() - 7 * 86_400_000);
+    expect(prisma.hostMetric.deleteMany).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      where: { capturedAt: { lt: expectedCutoff } },
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("respects HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS for the prune cutoff", async () => {
+    process.env.HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS = "14";
+    const prisma = makePrismaMock();
+    const now = new Date("2026-05-09T12:00:00Z");
+
+    await runHostMetricTick(prisma, {
+      now,
+      captureFn: async () => ({
+        loadAvg1: 0,
+        loadAvg5: 0,
+        loadAvg15: 0,
+        memUsedBytes: BigInt(1),
+        memTotalBytes: BigInt(2),
+        diskReadBytes: null,
+        diskWriteBytes: null,
+      }),
+    });
+
+    const expectedCutoff = new Date(now.getTime() - 14 * 86_400_000);
+    expect(prisma.hostMetric.deleteMany).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      where: { capturedAt: { lt: expectedCutoff } },
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/host-metric-sampler.ts b/src/lib/jobs/host-metric-sampler.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6eede1ba7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/host-metric-sampler.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+/**
+ * Per-minute host-load sampler that backs the admin /admin/system-status
+ * "last 2 hours" chart (v1.4.16 phase B3).
+ *
+ * Marc asked for a small at-a-glance graph above the system-status facts
+ * grid showing CPU + memory + disk-IO so a glance at /admin tells him
+ * whether the apps-01 host is healthy. We considered scraping Coolify's
+ * Sentinel collector, but the Coolify HTTP API does not expose a clean
+ * read endpoint for per-server metrics — every approach ended up either
+ * scraping the Coolify dashboard HTML or hitting a private RPC. An
+ * in-process sampler costs us a single 7-column row per minute, never
+ * leaves the app's own DB, and works identically on dev (macOS) and
+ * production (Linux).
+ *
+ * The sampler uses `os.loadavg()` (1/5/15-minute averages) and
+ * `os.totalmem() - os.freemem()` for memory. On Linux it also reads the
+ * cumulative /proc/diskstats counters; non-Linux hosts return null disk
+ * fields, which the API endpoint then surfaces as "no disk data" instead
+ * of failing the whole chart.
+ *
+ * Retention: rows older than 7 days are deleted at the end of every
+ * tick. With one insert per minute that's 10,080 rows steady-state,
+ * indexed by `captured_at` so the 2h query stays under 200 rows.
+ */
+import { loadavg, totalmem, freemem } from "node:os";
+import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import type { PrismaClient } from "@/generated/prisma/client";
+
+export const DEFAULT_HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS = 7;
+
+export interface HostMetricSample {
+  loadAvg1: number;
+  loadAvg5: number;
+  loadAvg15: number;
+  memUsedBytes: bigint;
+  memTotalBytes: bigint;
+  diskReadBytes: bigint | null;
+  diskWriteBytes: bigint | null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Capture a single host-load snapshot. Pure-ish — only `os.*` and
+ * `/proc/diskstats` are touched, so the unit test can stub
+ * `readDiskStats` to assert the disk path without mocking `node:os`.
+ */
+export async function captureHostMetric(
+  readDiskStats: () => Promise<{
+    readBytes: bigint;
+    writeBytes: bigint;
+  } | null> = readLinuxDiskStats,
+): Promise<HostMetricSample> {
+  const [load1, load5, load15] = loadavg();
+  const total = totalmem();
+  const free = freemem();
+  const used = total - free;
+  const disk = await readDiskStats().catch(() => null);
+
+  return {
+    loadAvg1: round(load1),
+    loadAvg5: round(load5),
+    loadAvg15: round(load15),
+    memUsedBytes: BigInt(used),
+    memTotalBytes: BigInt(total),
+    diskReadBytes: disk?.readBytes ?? null,
+    diskWriteBytes: disk?.writeBytes ?? null,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Linux /proc/diskstats reader. Returns the sum of read + write byte
+ * counters across all non-virtual block devices (loop/ram/dm-* are
+ * excluded — they double-count or report meaningless numbers).
+ *
+ * Each /proc/diskstats line is whitespace-separated:
+ *   3:major  4:minor  ...  6:sectors_read  ...  10:sectors_written  ...
+ * Multiplying sectors by the canonical 512 B sector size gives the
+ * cumulative byte counters the chart uses to derive bytes-per-second
+ * between samples.
+ */
+async function readLinuxDiskStats(): Promise<{
+  readBytes: bigint;
+  writeBytes: bigint;
+} | null> {
+  let raw: string;
+  try {
+    raw = await readFile("/proc/diskstats", "utf-8");
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  let totalRead = BigInt(0);
+  let totalWrite = BigInt(0);
+  const SECTOR_BYTES = BigInt(512);
+
+  for (const line of raw.split("\n")) {
+    const parts = line.trim().split(/\s+/);
+    if (parts.length < 14) continue;
+    const device = parts[2];
+    // Skip virtual / synthetic devices that double-count or report
+    // bogus numbers. ram*/loop* are pseudo-devices; dm-* and md* are
+    // device-mapper / RAID overlays whose underlying disks are already
+    // counted by the physical device line.
+    if (
+      !device ||
+      /^(loop|ram|dm-|md|sr|fd)/.test(device) ||
+      /^(nbd|zram)/.test(device)
+    ) {
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    const sectorsRead = BigInt(parts[5] ?? "0");
+    const sectorsWritten = BigInt(parts[9] ?? "0");
+    totalRead += sectorsRead * SECTOR_BYTES;
+    totalWrite += sectorsWritten * SECTOR_BYTES;
+  }
+
+  return { readBytes: totalRead, writeBytes: totalWrite };
+}
+
+export function getHostMetricRetentionDays(): number {
+  const raw = process.env.HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS;
+  if (raw === undefined) return DEFAULT_HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS;
+  const parsed = parseInt(raw, 10);
+  if (!Number.isFinite(parsed) || parsed <= 0) {
+    return DEFAULT_HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS;
+  }
+  // Refuse a misconfigured value below 1 day — the chart needs at least
+  // 2h of data, but cron drift + missed ticks make 1d the safe floor.
+  if (parsed < 1) return DEFAULT_HOST_METRIC_RETENTION_DAYS;
+  return parsed;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Insert a single sample row + delete expired rows. Returns the number
+ * of rows pruned so the worker can annotate its Wide Event.
+ */
+export async function runHostMetricTick(
+  prisma: PrismaClient,
+  options: {
+    now?: Date;
+    captureFn?: () => Promise<HostMetricSample>;
+  } = {},
+): Promise<{ inserted: 1; pruned: number }> {
+  const now = options.now ?? new Date();
+  const sample = await (options.captureFn ?? (() => captureHostMetric()))();
+
+  await prisma.hostMetric.create({
+    data: {
+      capturedAt: now,
+      loadAvg1: sample.loadAvg1,
+      loadAvg5: sample.loadAvg5,
+      loadAvg15: sample.loadAvg15,
+      memUsedBytes: sample.memUsedBytes,
+      memTotalBytes: sample.memTotalBytes,
+      diskReadBytes: sample.diskReadBytes,
+      diskWriteBytes: sample.diskWriteBytes,
+    },
+  });
+
+  const cutoff = new Date(
+    now.getTime() - getHostMetricRetentionDays() * 86_400_000,
+  );
+  const { count } = await prisma.hostMetric.deleteMany({
+    where: { capturedAt: { lt: cutoff } },
+  });
+
+  return { inserted: 1, pruned: count };
+}
+
+function round(value: number): number {
+  // 2-decimal precision is enough for a chart whose y-axis spans 0–4
+  // load — and it keeps Postgres `DOUBLE PRECISION` rows compact.
+  return Math.round(value * 100) / 100;
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/reminder-worker.ts b/src/lib/jobs/reminder-worker.ts
index 74391dca9..01a6455a3 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/reminder-worker.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/reminder-worker.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import {
 import { setGlobalBoss } from "@/lib/jobs/boss-instance";
 import { cleanupExpiredIdempotencyKeys } from "@/lib/jobs/idempotency-cleanup";
 import { cleanupOldAuditLogs } from "@/lib/jobs/audit-log-cleanup";
+import { runHostMetricTick } from "@/lib/jobs/host-metric-sampler";
 import { rotateLegacyMoodLogSecrets } from "@/lib/moodlog-secret";
 import { deleteMessage } from "@/lib/telegram";
 import { decrypt, encrypt } from "@/lib/crypto";
@@ -105,6 +106,9 @@ const OFFHOST_BACKUP_QUEUE = "data-backup-offhost";
 // in-DB DATA_BACKUP at 03:00 (Sundays only) so the off-host copy is
 // always at-or-ahead of the local one.
 const OFFHOST_BACKUP_CRON = "30 2 * * *";
+const HOST_METRIC_QUEUE = "host-metric-sample";
+// Per-minute cadence — matches the chart's 60s polling refetchInterval.
+const HOST_METRIC_CRON = "* * * * *";
 
 interface ReminderCheckPayload {
   triggeredAt: string;
@@ -168,6 +172,10 @@ interface OffhostBackupPayload {
   triggeredAt: string;
 }
 
+interface HostMetricSamplePayload {
+  triggeredAt: string;
+}
+
 // Re-export timezone utilities under local names for backward compatibility
 const getUserTodayBounds = getUserTodayBoundsUtil;
 const getDayOfWeekInTz = getDayOfWeekInTzUtil;
@@ -915,6 +923,21 @@ async function handleAuditLogCleanup(jobs: Job<AuditLogCleanupPayload>[]) {
   });
 }
 
+async function handleHostMetricSample(jobs: Job<HostMetricSamplePayload>[]) {
+  void jobs;
+  await withBackgroundEvent("job.host_metric_sample", async (evt) => {
+    const p = getWorkerPrisma();
+    try {
+      const { pruned } = await runHostMetricTick(p);
+      evt.addMeta("host_metric_pruned", pruned);
+    } catch (err) {
+      // The chart degrades gracefully when samples are missing — log
+      // and move on rather than poisoning the boss queue with retries.
+      evt.addWarning(`host-metric-sample failed: ${err}`);
+    }
+  });
+}
+
 async function handleOffhostBackup(jobs: Job<OffhostBackupPayload>[]) {
   void jobs;
   await withBackgroundEvent("job.offhost_backup", async (evt) => {
@@ -1160,6 +1183,7 @@ export async function startReminderWorker() {
     IDEMPOTENCY_CLEANUP_QUEUE,
     AUDIT_LOG_CLEANUP_QUEUE,
     OFFHOST_BACKUP_QUEUE,
+    HOST_METRIC_QUEUE,
   ];
 
   for (const q of allQueues) {
@@ -1182,6 +1206,7 @@ export async function startReminderWorker() {
     [IDEMPOTENCY_CLEANUP_QUEUE, IDEMPOTENCY_CLEANUP_CRON],
     [AUDIT_LOG_CLEANUP_QUEUE, AUDIT_LOG_CLEANUP_CRON],
     [OFFHOST_BACKUP_QUEUE, OFFHOST_BACKUP_CRON],
+    [HOST_METRIC_QUEUE, HOST_METRIC_CRON],
   ];
 
   for (const [name, cron] of schedules) {
@@ -1264,6 +1289,11 @@ export async function startReminderWorker() {
     { localConcurrency: 1 },
     handleOffhostBackup,
   );
+  await boss.work<HostMetricSamplePayload>(
+    HOST_METRIC_QUEUE,
+    { localConcurrency: 1 },
+    handleHostMetricSample,
+  );
 
   return boss;
 }