Best Self-hosted Infrastructure & Operations tools in 2026

NGINX is a high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy with caching, load balancing, TLS termination, and TCP/UDP proxying via a modular architecture.

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NGINX Management Suite+2

Czkawka is a cross-platform Rust-based desktop utility that finds duplicates, empty folders, large files, and more to free up disk space, with GUI and CLI interfaces.

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Duplicate Cleaner+3

Grafana Loki is a Prometheus-inspired log aggregation system that indexes labels (not log contents) for cost-effective storage and fast querying, with Grafana integration...

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Datadog Log Management+19

Cloudreve is a self-hosted file management and sharing platform with multi-user access, WebDAV, share links, and support for local and S3-compatible storage backends.

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Dropbox+15

Self-hosted tool to collect and preserve webpages, media, and bookmarks in durable formats (HTML, PDF, WARC, MP4) with a CLI, web UI, and search.

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Internet Archive Wayback Machine+3

Declarative, API-first orchestration platform for scheduled and event-driven workflows with a plugin ecosystem, UI editor, CI/CD and Terraform integration.

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Dagster Cloud+16

SigNoz is an open-source platform that collects and correlates logs, metrics, and traces using OpenTelemetry for unified observability.

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Datadog+19

Dockge is a self-hosted, stack-oriented manager for Docker Compose files, providing a responsive web UI to edit, deploy, update, and monitor compose.yaml stacks.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+15

Open-source observability pipeline to collect, transform, and route logs and metrics with a single, high-performance binary and programmable transforms.

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Elastic Logstash+13

GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer that turns server access logs into interactive terminal (TUI) or browser-based dashboards, plus HTML/JSON/CSV reports.

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Google Analytics+6

cAdvisor (Container Advisor) collects, processes, and exports resource usage and performance metrics for running containers, with a built-in web UI and REST API.

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+8

Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform with historical metrics, Docker/Podman container stats, configurable alerts, multi-user access, and an API.

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+9

Open-source identity-based remote access platform combining WireGuard VPN and tunneled reverse proxy access with granular zero-trust controls.

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Cloudflare Access+16

Anubis is a lightweight web AI firewall that protects sites from AI crawlers and scraping bots using configurable request challenges and bot policies.

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Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF)+10

Fast, resource-efficient time series database compatible with Prometheus and Grafana, for scalable monitoring and long-term metrics storage.

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Grafana Cloud+9

EMQX is a high-performance MQTT broker and IoT messaging platform with clustering, security controls, a SQL rules engine, and integrations to databases and event systems.

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EMQX Cloud+3

A Python-based notification library and CLI that routes messages to 120+ services via URL-based configurations, enabling self-hosted cross-platform alerts.

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Twilio+4

CapRover is an open-source platform to deploy, manage and scale apps using Docker and nginx with a web UI and CLI, automatic SSL, one-click databases and clustering suppo...

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Coolify Cloud+19

Self-hosted file sync and share platform with libraries, sharing links, versioning, and optional end-to-end encrypted libraries for private team collaboration.

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Dropbox+19

LibreSpeed is a lightweight, open-source, self-hosted internet speed test implemented in JavaScript. It measures download, upload, ping and jitter and supports PHP/Node b...

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Speedtest by Ookla+3

Open-source backup client for encrypted, compressed, incremental backups to cloud storage and remote servers via SFTP, WebDAV, and more.

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Duplicacy (Commercial)+15

OAuth2 Proxy is a reverse proxy and middleware that protects web apps with OAuth2/OIDC login and forwards authenticated user identity to upstream services.

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Cloudflare Access+14

Desktop application that centralizes SSH, containers, VMs, Kubernetes and remote file management; integrates local CLI tools and syncs connection data via git.

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MobaXterm+6

BorgBackup is a deduplicating backup program with authenticated encryption and compression for Unix-like systems.

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BorgBase+14

CLI tool to create Cloudflare Tunnels and route traffic through Cloudflare’s edge.

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ngrok+10

Cross-platform backup and restore tool with snapshot-based incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression, and deduplication via CLI and GUI.

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Duplicacy (Commercial)+15

Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open-source voxel game engine for building and hosting modded games and multiplayer worlds with Lua-based modding.

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Minecraft Realms

Open-source platform to provision secure, self-hosted developer workspaces (VMs, containers, Kubernetes) defined in Terraform, with IDE integrations and AI agent support.

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Coder (Coder Cloud)+6

Lightweight web-based real-time log viewer for Docker containers, with support for Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, plus search, split view, and optional authentication.

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Papertrail+9

Tyk Gateway is an open source, cloud-native API gateway for securing, managing, and scaling REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and TCP APIs with auth, rate limits, and policies.

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Amazon API Gateway+6