Best Self-hosted Infrastructure & Operations tools in 2026

Real-time monitoring dashboard for Proxmox, Docker/Podman, and Kubernetes with smart alerts, agent auto-discovery, metrics history, and optional AI insights.

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+12

Scanopy scans networks to discover hosts and services, then generates live, interactive topology diagrams and auto-updating network documentation.

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Device42+10

Arcane is a modern web interface for Docker management, providing an approachable UI to deploy, manage, and monitor containers and Docker Compose stacks.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+5

Nexterm is an open-source server management platform providing SSH, VNC and RDP access, SFTP file management, Docker deployment, Proxmox integration, monitoring and SSO.

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TeamViewer+11

Open-source browser-based gateway enabling VNC, RDP, and SSH access to remote desktops without client software.

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Citrix DaaS+17

Ansible-NAS is an Ansible playbook collection that turns an Ubuntu server into a NAS-style home server by deploying and configuring many self-hosted apps via Docker.

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform+7

LinuxServer.io SWAG is a Docker image bundling Nginx reverse proxy, ACME certificate automation (Let’s Encrypt/ZeroSSL), optional PHP, and fail2ban intrusion prevention.

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Apache HTTP Server+9

VerneMQ is a high-performance, distributed MQTT broker for scalable, highly available IoT and M2M messaging, with clustering, TLS, WebSockets, plugins, and integrations.

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HiveMQ Cloud+3

Self-hosted web UI that exposes YAML-defined shell commands as buttons, dashboards and API endpoints with ACLs, auth and logging for safe, repeatable server operations.

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PagerDuty Rundeck+11

OpenSpeedTest is an open-source HTML5 speed test that runs in any modern browser to measure download, upload, ping, and jitter, with optional self-hosted servers.

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Speedtest by Ookla+3

Lightweight companion container to back up Docker volumes on a schedule or on demand, with rotation, encryption, notifications, and support for multiple storage backends.

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Acronis Cyber Protect+9

ddclient is a Perl-based Dynamic DNS client that detects IP changes and updates DNS records across many supported DDNS and DNS provider APIs.

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DynDNS+5

Dashdot is a modern server dashboard built with React and Node.js for real-time server monitoring on self-hosted systems.

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+13

WUD (What’s Up Docker?) monitors your running Docker containers and notifies you when newer images are available, helping keep deployments up to date.

Portable, file-backed workflow orchestrator that defines DAGs in declarative YAML, runs anywhere as a single binary, and includes a modern Web UI for monitoring and contr...

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Prefect Cloud+10

Algernon is a small, self-contained Go web server with built-in Lua/Teal scripting, Markdown and template rendering, HTTP/2+HTTP/3 (QUIC), and multiple database backends.

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Apache HTTP Server

Self-hosted insight hub combining privacy-focused web analytics, uptime monitoring, and server/server-docker status with an API for integrations.

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Google Analytics+19

Open-source, self-hosted tool to provision servers and deploy PHP apps with database, SSL, firewall, cron, services, monitoring, workflows, plugins, and API.

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Laravel Forge+11

Prebuilt Nextcloud appliance and management tools for Raspberry Pi, Odroid, VMs and LXC; includes Apache, PHP, MariaDB, Redis, web panel and backup utilities.

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Google Drive+17

Lightweight DDNS client to keep DNS A/AAAA records updated across many providers, available as a container or standalone binaries with a built-in web UI.

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No-IP+3

Open-source static status page for publishing incidents and service status, built with Hugo for fast builds, easy customization, and optional CMS editing.

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Atlassian Statuspage+6

Open-source Debian-based OS and control panel that simplifies installing, managing and securing web apps, mail and services via a web admin and app catalog.

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Cloudron+19

Canine is an open source Kubernetes deployment platform that provides a Heroku-like PaaS experience with Git-driven deploys, web UI management, and built-in SSL and secre...

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Heroku+10

High-performance reverse proxy for self-hosted apps with Web UI, Docker/Podman auto-routing, HTTPS via Let's Encrypt, access control, and OIDC/ForwardAuth support.

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Traefik Cloud+5

High-performance reverse proxy and container orchestrator with Web UI, automatic Docker/Podman route discovery, idle-sleep, access control, and automated Let's Encrypt su...

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Cloudflare Tunnel+19

Serve vector and raster map tiles from MBTiles with GL styles, including WMTS endpoints, static images, and a built-in map preview for common web GIS clients.

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MapTiler Cloud

OpenStreetMap is a community-built map of the world with a web interface and APIs for editing, browsing, and accessing open geographic data.

Wizarr automates user invitations and onboarding for Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and similar media servers, with SSO, time-limited access, Discord and request-system integration...

Chibisafe is a fast, self-hosted file uploader and vault for files, photos, and documents with shareable links, albums, tagging, and API access.

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WeTransfer+16

Self-hosted speed test analysis tool that automates tests, stores results up to 30 days, and provides dashboards, health checks, and multi-server support.

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Speedtest by Ookla+8