Best Self-hosted Monitoring & Observability tools in 2026

Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted uptime monitoring tool for HTTP(S), TCP, ping, DNS and more, with notifications, charts, and public status pages.

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UptimeRobot+15

Open-source, agent-based monitoring platform delivering per-second metrics, edge ML anomaly detection, tiered time-series storage and centralized cloud UI.

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+16

Grafana is an open source observability and data visualization platform for querying, graphing, and alerting on metrics, logs, and traces across many data sources.

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Grafana Cloud+19

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and time-series database for collecting metrics, querying with PromQL, and alerting on system and application health.

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Datadog Cloud Monitoring+17

Sentry is a developer-focused platform for error tracking, performance monitoring, and tracing to help teams detect, investigate, and fix issues faster.

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Bugsnag+14

Glance is a lightweight self-hosted dashboard that aggregates RSS and other widgets (Reddit, YouTube, weather, markets, server stats) into customizable pages.

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Start.me+12

Comprehensive on-demand OSINT to analyze a website's security, architecture, and tech stack.

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Shodan+8

Glances is a cross-platform system monitoring tool providing a terminal dashboard, web UI, and REST/XML-RPC APIs for local or remote monitoring and exporting metrics.

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Netdata Cloud+11

InfluxDB is an open source time-series database for high-ingest metrics and event data, enabling fast queries for monitoring, dashboards, and real-time analytics.

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InfluxDB Cloud+5

Open-source self-hostable PaaS for deploying containerized applications and managing databases with Docker Compose, Traefik, monitoring, and backups.

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Vercel+9

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self-hosted server management platform with web SSH terminal, SSH tunneling, remote file manager/editor, Docker controls, monitoring, and RBAC with OIDC and 2FA.

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Termius+4

Self-hosted status page and uptime monitoring tool with configurable health checks, dashboards, metrics, and alerting for HTTP, TCP, ICMP, and DNS endpoints.

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UptimeRobot+19

Open-source service that monitors cron jobs and scheduled tasks via HTTP/email pings, providing a dashboard, alerts, badges and many notification integrations.

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Healthchecks.io+2

Self-hosted monitoring for websites and servers with uptime checks, response-time metrics, incidents, and status pages, plus optional agent-based hardware monitoring.

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UptimeRobot+16

Graylog is an open source platform for collecting, indexing, searching, and alerting on logs and machine data from many sources in one place.

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Graylog Cloud+11

Self-hosted S.M.A.R.T monitoring dashboard that collects SMART data, visualizes historical trends, and alerts on drive health.

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Hard Disk Sentinel+11

Open-source GPS tracking platform supporting 200+ device protocols, real-time tracking, alerts, reports, REST API and web/mobile apps for fleet and asset monitoring.

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Wialon+8

Self-hosted lightweight LAN IP/ARP scanner with web dashboard, new-host notifications, online/offline history, and metrics export to Prometheus or InfluxDB for Grafana.

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Fing+9

Self-hostable observability platform for uptime monitoring, alerting, incident management, on-call, status pages, logs, and APM in one integrated suite.

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OneUptime+19

Self-hosted web app for Plex Media Server monitoring, viewing playback analytics, user history, and sending customizable notifications and newsletters.

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Tautulli

Self-hosted Node.js server for remote monitoring, web-based remote desktop, terminal, file access and multi-DB device management.

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TeamViewer+14