24 ranked picks · Updated daily

Self-hosted uptime monitoring: open-source Pingdom and UptimeRobot alternatives

Pingdom is $15-369/mo. UptimeRobot Pro is $7-99/mo. Self-hosted Uptime Kuma gives the same beautiful dashboards, status pages, and Discord/Slack alerts on a $4/mo VPS forever, no monitor caps.

Cheapest path: netdata on hetzner for $4.13/mo.

The 24 picks, ranked by health

Health score is a 6-dimension composite. See methodology.

netdata
by netdata
82/100

The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.

C GPL-3.0
79k
$4.13/mo
4/5
prometheus
by prometheus
81/100

The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

Go Apache-2.0
64k
$4.13/mo
2/5
vector
by vectordotdev
79/100

A high-performance observability data pipeline.

Rust MPL-2.0
22k
$4.13/mo
2/5
VictoriaMetrics
by VictoriaMetrics
79/100

VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

Go Apache-2.0
17k
$4.13/mo
2/5
langfuse
by langfuse
78/100

Open source LLM engineering platform: LLM Observability, metrics, evals, prompt management, playground, datasets. Integrates with OpenTelemetry, Langchain, OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM, and more. YC W23

TypeScript NOASSERTION
27k
$4.13/mo
1/5
openobserve
by openobserve
78/100

OpenObserve is an open-source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, and frontend monitoring. A cost-effective alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.

TypeScript AGPL-3.0
19k
$4.13/mo
3/5
greptimedb
by grepTimeTeam
78/100

The open-source Observability 2.0 database. One engine for metrics, logs, and traces, replacing Prometheus, Loki & ES.

Rust Apache-2.0
6.2k
$4.13/mo
2/5
healthchecks
by healthchecks
77/100

Open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django

Python BSD-3-Clause
10k
$4.13/mo
4/5
influxdb
by influxdb
75/100

Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics

Rust Apache-2.0
31k
$4.13/mo
2/5
changedetection.io
by dgtlmoon
74/100

Best and simplest tool for website change detection, web page monitoring, and website change alerts. Perfect for tracking content changes, price drops, restock alerts, and website defacement monitoring, all for free or enjoy our SaaS plan!

Python Apache-2.0
31k
$4.13/mo
1/5
gatus
by TwinProduction
74/100

Automated developer-oriented status page with alerting and incident support

Go Apache-2.0
11k
$4.13/mo
2/5
glance
by glanceapp
73/100

A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place

Go AGPL-3.0
34k
$4.13/mo
1/5
bottom
by ClementTsang
73/100

Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

Rust MIT
13k
$4.13/mo
2/5
huginn
by huginn
72/100

Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!

Ruby MIT
49k
$4.13/mo
3/5
DoraemonKit
by didi
71/100

一款面向泛前端产品研发全生命周期的效率平台。

Java Apache-2.0
20k
$4.13/mo
2/5
kmon
by orhun
71/100

Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor

Rust GPL-3.0
2.9k
$4.13/mo
2/5
lindb
by lindb
70/100

LinDB is a scalable, high performance, high availability distributed time series database.

Go Apache-2.0
3.1k
$4.13/mo
2/5
RuView
by ruvnet
69/100

π RuView turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection, all without a single pixel of video.

Rust MIT
52k
$4.13/mo
2/5
ctop
by bcicen
69/100

Top-like interface for container metrics

Go MIT
18k
$4.13/mo
2/5
psutil
by giampaolo
69/100

Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python

Python BSD-3-Clause
11k
$4.13/mo
2/5
pixie
by pixie-labs
68/100

Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability

C++ Apache-2.0
6.4k
$4.13/mo
2/5
easeprobe
by megaease
66/100

A simple, standalone, and lightweight tool that can do health/status checking, written in Go.

Go Apache-2.0
2.3k
$4.13/mo
1/5
WatchYourLAN
by aceberg
65/100

Lightweight network IP scanner written in Go. With notifications, history, export to Grafana

Go MIT
6.9k
$4.13/mo
2/5
homer
by sipcapture
64/100

HOMER - 100% Open-Source SIP, VoIP, RTC Packet Capture & Monitoring

Shell AGPL-3.0
1.9k
$4.13/mo
2/5

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