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: grafana on hetzner for $4.13/mo.

The 24 picks, ranked by health

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

grafana
by grafana
82/100

The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

TypeScript AGPL-3.0
75k
$4.13/mo
signoz
by SigNoz
79/100

SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. . Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

TypeScript NOASSERTION
27k
$4.13/mo
healthchecks
by healthchecks
78/100

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

Python BSD-3-Clause
10k
$4.13/mo
4/5
netdata
by netdata
77/100

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
76/100

The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

Go Apache-2.0
64k
$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
32k
$4.13/mo
1/5
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
langfuse
by langfuse
73/100

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
vector
by vectordotdev
73/100

A high-performance observability data pipeline.

Rust MPL-2.0
22k
$4.13/mo
2/5
VictoriaMetrics
by VictoriaMetrics
73/100

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

Go Apache-2.0
17k
$4.13/mo
2/5
greptimedb
by grepTimeTeam
73/100

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
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
openobserve
by openobserve
72/100

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
homer
by sipcapture
72/100

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

Go NOASSERTION
2.0k
$4.13/mo
2/5
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
influxdb
by influxdb
70/100

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

Rust Apache-2.0
31k
$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
ctop
by bcicen
69/100

Top-like interface for container metrics

Go MIT
18k
$4.13/mo
2/5
gatus
by TwinProduction
69/100

Automated developer-oriented status page with alerting and incident support

Go Apache-2.0
11k
$4.13/mo
2/5
bottom
by ClementTsang
67/100

Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

Rust MIT
13k
$4.13/mo
2/5
goaccess
by allinurl
66/100

GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

C MIT
21k
$4.13/mo
2/5
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
RuView
by ruvnet
64/100

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

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