Best Self-hosted Infrastructure & Operations tools in 2026

DockSTARTer is a menu-driven CLI that installs Docker and helps configure and run curated Docker Compose apps for homelab and self-hosted setups.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+16

Garage is a lightweight, S3-compatible distributed object storage service built for small-to-medium self-hosted, geo-distributed deployments with strong resilience.

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Amazon S3+6

Open-source API gateway for securing, aggregating, and transforming microservice APIs with a stateless, high-throughput Go-based runtime and declarative configuration.

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Amazon API Gateway+7

Starts workloads on demand and automatically stops them after inactivity; integrates with reverse proxies and supports Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes.

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Amazon Lambda+6

Self-hosted web interface to schedule, monitor, encrypt, store, and restore PostgreSQL backups to local disk or S3-compatible storage.

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Crunchy Bridge+7

Peergos is a peer-to-peer encrypted file storage and private social platform with fine-grained access control, capability links, and a web UI for secure sharing.

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Proton Drive+12

Parseable ingests, analyzes, and extracts insights from MELT telemetry data with predictive analytics and a unified SQL/NL querying interface.

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Datadog+15

AnyCable is a realtime server for reliable two-way communication over WebSockets and SSE, designed to power chats, notifications, presence, and streaming updates for any...

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Socket.IO Cloud+4

A ACL-based proxy that sits in front of the Docker daemon to block unsafe API endpoints while allowing authorized operations.

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Docker

Dockcheck is a Bash CLI that checks for Docker image updates and can perform selective or unattended updates with notifications, image backups, and optional pruning.

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+2

Self-hosted monitoring for servers, services, SSL, incidents and status pages; React frontend with a Go backend and embedded SQLite data store.

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+16

Self-hosted web application to track and manage 3D-printing filament spools with a REST API, WebSocket updates, label/QR printing and integrations for common printer fron...

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SimplyPrint+6

Websoft9 is a web-based Linux panel and lightweight PaaS for deploying, running, and operating hundreds of open-source applications on your own server.

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Cloudron+19

Static Web Server (SWS) is a lightweight, cross-platform Rust web server for serving static files with HTTP/2, TLS, compression, caching headers, and SPA fallbacks.

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Apache HTTP Server+5

Lightweight single-binary log viewer that streams logs to a local web UI with real-time filtering, search, and TypeScript-based parsing for structured and text logs.

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Papertrail+3

Kite is a modern Kubernetes dashboard for multi-cluster management, resource operations, and Prometheus-powered monitoring with logs, terminal access, and live YAML editi...

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+4

Self-hosted statistics app for Jellyfin, providing session monitoring, watch history, and user/library analytics with backup and autosync support.

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Tautulli+2

ARA records Ansible playbook runs and provides searchable reports via a CLI, REST API, and local-first web interface to troubleshoot and understand automation results.

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Datadog Log Management+5

Simple, robust BitTorrent tracker implementation for Node.js, providing client and server components with HTTP/UDP/WebSocket tracking and built-in stats endpoints.

Apaxy is a customizable theme that restyles Apache mod_autoindex directory listings using HTML/CSS and optional JavaScript, with MIME-type icons and optional gallery view...

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Apache HTTP Server

Open source status page and monitoring server for HTTP, TCP, UDP, ICMP and gRPC checks, with dashboards, alerts, and a REST API.

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Atlassian Statuspage+17

Carrier-grade SIP/VoIP/WebRTC packet capture and monitoring platform with real-time search, correlation, and troubleshooting workflows using the HEP/EEP protocol.

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ThousandEyes VoIP Monitoring+3

Open-source Node.js server implementing the Amazon S3 API, enabling local S3 emulation and a unified object storage interface across multiple backends and clouds.

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Amazon S3+6

Centralized SSH gateway to remotely manage Linux servers, containers and IoT devices via web or native SSH; offers key auth, firewall rules, audit logging and session rec...

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Teleport+14

Self-hosted Linux patch monitoring platform with inventory, updates, and an API-driven workflow.

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ManageEngine Endpoint Central+5

ownCloud Infinite Scale (oCIS) is a cloud-native file sync and share platform with WebDAV/CS3 APIs, OIDC authentication, and scalable microservice architecture.

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Google Drive+15

Pelican Panel is an open-source web control panel for managing game servers, offering Docker-based isolation, deployment workflows, and real-time resource monitoring.

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Pterodactyl Panel (Cloud)

Self-hosted controller that automates Cloudflare Tunnels, DNS records, and Access policies using Docker labels, with a web UI and optional multi-server agents.

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Cloudflare Tunnel

A Rust-written, memory-safe web server offering automatic Let's Encrypt TLS, KDL configuration, HTTP/2/HTTP/3, reverse proxying, and built-in tooling for serving web apps...

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Apache HTTP Server+3

SmokePing is an active network monitoring tool that measures latency and packet loss over time, stores results in RRD, and visualizes them via a web UI with alerting.

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Pingdom+15