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Monitoring & Observability

Server monitoring, uptime checks, log management, and observability platforms

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92 Tools

Firecrawl

94K

Turn websites into LLM-ready data — scrape, crawl, and extract structured content from any website as clean markdown, JSON, or screenshots.

Uptime Kuma

84K

Fancy self-hosted uptime monitoring with 90+ notification services, status pages, and 20-second check intervals — the open-source UptimeRobot alternative.

Netdata

78K

Real-time infrastructure monitoring with per-second metrics, 800+ integrations, built-in ML anomaly detection, and AI troubleshooting — using just 5% CPU and 150MB RAM.

Elasticsearch

76K

The distributed search and analytics engine that powers search at Netflix, eBay, and Uber — sub-millisecond queries across billions of documents, with vector search built in for AI/RAG applications.

Grafana

73K

The open-source observability platform for visualizing metrics, logs, and traces from Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, and dozens more data sources.

Prometheus

63K

An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.

Sentry

43K

Sentry is the leading error tracking and application performance monitoring platform, helping developers diagnose, fix, and optimize code across every stack.

Agno

39K

Build, run, and manage secure multi-agent systems inside your cloud. The all-in-one agent platform that runs in your cloud.

Glances

32K

Cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python.

InfluxDB

31K

The purpose-built time series database — rewritten in Rust with SQL support, Parquet storage, and 10-20x compression in v3.

changedetection.io

31K

Monitor unlimited web pages for changes and get notified — price tracking, browser automation, and 85+ notification channels, free when self-hosted.

Loki

28K

Horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.

Signoz

26K

Signoz is a self-hosted server monitoring tool that provides comprehensive monitoring and troubleshooting solution for microservices architectures.

TDengine

25K

For database management, TDengine is a self-hosted solution that provides purpose-built database for Industry 4.0 and IOT.

Langfuse

23K

LLM engineering platform for tracing, prompt management, evaluation, and analytics of AI applications.

Prefect

22K

Released under Apache-2.0, Prefect offers modern tools to build, monitor, and react to data workflows and reliably on self-hosted infrastructure.

Vector

21K

High-performance observability data pipeline for collecting, transforming, and routing logs and metrics.

Beszel

20K

Lightweight server monitoring hub with Docker stats, historical data, and alerts in a single binary.

Netbox

20K

Netbox is a self-hosted server monitoring replacement for Device42, Infoblox, and more.

cAdvisor

19K

Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers. - google/cadvisor

OpenObserve

18K

Fast, scalable and cost-effective open source observability platform

VictoriaMetrics

17K

Incredibly fast time series database and easy-to-use high performance monitoring solutions simple and reliable for everyone

Cachet

15K

From startups to Fortune 500 companies, organizations worldwide trust Cachet to streamline their downtime communication, enhancing transparency with customers, teams, and stakeholders

Logstash

15K

Logstash (part of the Elastic Stack) integrates data from any source, in any format with this flexible, open source collection, parsing, and enrichment pipeline. Download for free...

Dozzle

12K

Released under MIT, Dozzle provides real-time log viewer for Docker containers on self-hosted infrastructure.

Keep

12K

The open-source AIOps (AI for IT operations) and alert management platform

Quickwit

11K

Quickwit handles high-performance search engine designed for big data as a self-hosted solution.

Gatus

10K

Gatus is a self-hosted server monitoring tool with support for Monitoring, Uptime, golang.

Healthchecks

9.9K

Healthchecks lets you run listen for pings and sends alerts when pings are late entirely on your own server.

Checkmate

9.4K

Checkmate handles monitor servers, websites, Docker containers, and infrastructure as a self-hosted solution.

HyperDX

9.4K

HyperDX is a self-hosted web analytics tool that provides observability platform unifying session replays.

Highlight

9.2K

For server monitoring, Highlight is a self-hosted solution that provides comprehensive monitoring solution offering error tracking.

OpenStatus

8.5K

For server monitoring, OpenStatus is a self-hosted solution that provides uptime monitoring platform for seamless service management.

Graylog

8K

Graylog offers log aggregation, data analysis, scalable architecture as a self-hosted log management.

Scrutiny

7.6K

Self-hosted server monitoring tool that provides hard drive S.M.A.R.T. monitoring application and interface.

Coroot

7.5K

Coroot is a Go-based application that provides simplifies system monitoring by providing metrics.

OpenLLMetry

6.9K

OpenLLMetry lets you run observability platform for LLMs using OpenTelemetry. Monitor performance entirely on your own server.

WatchYourLAN

6.8K

WatchYourLAN handles lightweight network IP scanner with notifications, history, export to Grafana as a self-hosted solution.

OneUptime

6.7K

Self-hosted server monitoring tool that provides all-in-one solution for uptime monitoring.

NetAlertX

5.9K

NetAlertX handles network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you as a self-hosted solution.

Zabbix

5.7K

Zabbix is a self-hosted server monitoring tool with support for Monitoring, Uptime.

Helicone

5.3K

Helicone lets you run platform for logging entirely on your own server.

Pulse

5.1K

Pulse is a self-hosted deployment & paas tool with support for Deployment, Monitoring.

kener

4.8K

Kener gives you status page tool on your own infrastructure.

Flipt

4.7K

Flipt is a self-hosted apm & observability tool with support for golang, observability, devops.

Uptrace

4.1K

Uptrace is a Go-based application that provides openTelemetry-based platform.

Logfire

4.1K

Logfire is a self-hosted apm & observability tool with support for AI, openai, observability.

Agenta

3.9K

Agenta handles lLMOps platform for prompt management as a self-hosted solution.

xyOps

3.6K

XyOps lets you run workflow automation and server monitoring entirely on your own server.

Tracecat

3.5K

Released under AGPL-3.0, Tracecat provides scalable, self-hostable platform for automating security workflows and playbooks without limits on self-hosted...

Tianji

3K

Released under Apache-2.0, Tianji provides web analytics, server status, and uptime monitoring on self-hosted infrastructure.

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cState

2.8K

Self-hosted monitoring & observability tool that provides static status page for hyperfast Hugo. Clean design.

Laminar

2.7K

For web analytics, Laminar is a self-hosted solution that provides platform that helps collect, understand, and utilize data for building high-quality LLM...

Kite

2.4K

Kite gives you lightweight Kubernetes dashboard on your own infrastructure.

CheckCle

2.4K

Self-hosted server monitoring tool that provides seamless, real-time full-stack monitoring.

PatchMon

2.4K

Released under AGPL-3.0, PatchMon provides linux patch monitoring made simple on self-hosted infrastructure.

Parseable

2.3K

Parseable gives you log analytics system for high throughput log ingestion on your own infrastructure.

Checkmk

2.2K

Checkmk is a self-hosted server monitoring tool that monitors your entire IT infrastructure.

Checkmk

2.2K

Checkmk lets you run scalable and automated IT monitoring entirely on your own server.

Icinga

2.2K

Released under GPL-3.0, Icinga monitors networks on self-hosted infrastructure.

Timeplus

2.2K

Timeplus gives you lightweight, powerful, and cost-efficient stream processing platform for real-time analytics, on your own infrastructure.

Logdy

2.1K

Logdy handles web-based real-time log viewer as a self-hosted solution.

StatPing.ng

1.9K

StatPing.ng is a self-hosted server monitoring tool that provides easy to use Status Page for your websites and applications. Statping will automatically...

SmokePing

1.8K

SmokePing lets you run latency logging, graphing, and alerts entirely on your own server.

LoggiFly

1.7K

Released under MIT, LoggiFly provides docker container log monitoring and notifications on self-hosted infrastructure.

Gigapipe

1.6K

Gigapipe is a self-hosted server monitoring tool with support for monitoring, SQL, clickhouse.

Kubetail

1.6K

Released under Apache-2.0, Kubetail provides real-time logging dashboard for Kubernetes on self-hosted infrastructure.

Peekaping

1.1K

Peekaping is a Go-based application that provides uptime monitoring solution.

Atlas

1K

Atlas lets you run network discovery, visualization, and monitoring entirely on your own server.

LLM Gateway

1K

LLM Gateway is a self-hosted web analytics tool that provides route, manage, and analyze LLM requests across multiple providers.

Statusnook

976

Statusnook lets you run powerful status page system for real-time incident tracking entirely on your own server.

Swetrix

933

Swetrix is a self-hosted privacy & encryption tool that provides web analytics platform offering powerful insights while prioritizing user privacy and data.

Notifiarr

856

Notifiarr handles monitoring and notifications via Discord as a self-hosted solution.

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Traefik Log Dashboard

743

Self-hosted personal dashboards tool that provides real-time dashboard for analyzing Traefik logs.

Logchef

732

Logchef is a self-hosted web analytics tool that provides lightweight log analytics platform.

Lunalytics

723

For uptime & status pages, Lunalytics is a self-hosted solution that provides uptime monitoring tool.

Nutify

708

For server monitoring, Nutify is a self-hosted solution that provides modern web-based UPS monitoring.

Streamdal

616

Released under Apache-2.0, Streamdal provides embed privacy controls in your code to detect and protect PII on self-hosted infrastructure.

Kuvasz Uptime

503

Kuvasz Uptime is a self-hosted uptime & status pages replacement for UptimeRobot.

Sosse

402

Self-hosted server monitoring tool that provides selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving.

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mlop

371

Mlop is a self-hosted monitoring & observability tool that provides platform for ML engineers to track metrics.

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Fail2Ban-Report

306

For log management, Fail2Ban-Report is a self-hosted solution that provides web-based dashboard for Fail2Ban logging.

LogForge

288

LogForge gives you service monitoring dashboard for Docker containers on your own infrastructure.

AnyAppStart

214

AnyAppStart is a self-hosted container management tool with support for Logs, Server Management.

Uptime Mate

180

For server monitoring, Uptime Mate is a self-hosted solution that provides website uptime monitoring for the Apple Watch.

Beszel Companion

104

Beszel Companion is a self-hosted server monitoring tool that provides unofficial native iOS client for Beszel.

KumaTray

79

KumaTray is a Python-based application that provides lightweight Windows tray app for Uptime Kuma.

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TestFlight Watcher

17

TestFlight Watcher lets you monitor TestFlight betas and notify on availability entirely on your own server.

StatusScout

11

StatusScout is a JavaScript-based application that monitors website uptime.

Uptime Kuma Manager

Self-hosted server monitoring tool that provides server monitoring on the go.

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Varys for Plex

For server monitoring, Varys for Plex offers a self-hosted way to monitor your Plex Media Server.

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Webcap

Webcap is a self-hosted digital archiving tool that provides web archiving and change detection.

Why Self-Host Your Monitoring Stack?

Infrastructure monitoring, uptime checks, and log management are categories where self-hosting is particularly natural — you are monitoring your own systems, so it makes sense to run that monitoring on infrastructure you control. Commercial platforms like Datadog, BetterStack, and Pagerduty charge per-host, per-log-volume, or per-alert pricing that scales aggressively as your infrastructure grows. A mid-size engineering team can easily spend thousands per month on observability tooling that an equivalent self-hosted stack would run for a fraction of the cost.

Uptime Kuma has become one of the most popular self-hosted tools in the entire ecosystem — a lightweight status monitoring application that checks HTTP endpoints, TCP ports, and DNS records on a schedule you define, sending alerts through dozens of notification channels. Grafana, paired with Prometheus for metrics collection, is the standard open source observability stack for infrastructure monitoring — the same combination used by some of the largest technology companies globally. Netdata provides real-time, per-second server metrics with minimal configuration on Linux systems.

Log management is the third pillar of observability. Elasticsearch with Loki (from the Grafana ecosystem) handles log ingestion, search, and retention at scale on self-hosted infrastructure. Graylog is a purpose-built log management platform with a strong enterprise pedigree. For application performance monitoring and error tracking, Sentry is open source and self-hostable — the same tool used by millions of developers in its SaaS form, deployed on your own hardware. With nearly 100 open source monitoring tools available, complete observability without a SaaS bill is entirely achievable.