Paid vs. Free subcategories
prometheus-community/smartctl_exporter 💎 hidden gem
It publishes a disk's own health figures so a monitoring system can watch them.
TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer
A name server you run yourself, with ad blocking and encrypted lookups built in.
rajnandan1/kener
A status page you run yourself, which checks your services and shows their recent history.
traefik/traefik
Decides which program answers each incoming request, and builds the rules by watching where the programs are.
caprover/caprover
A web page that installs apps and databases onto one rented computer, and sorts out the addresses and certificates.
google/slo-generator 💎 hidden gem
Turns a written reliability target into a measured number and a remaining budget.
bluewave-labs/Checkmate
A self-hosted monitor that checks whether sites and services answer, records response times and sends alerts.
statping-ng/statping-ng 💎 hidden gem
A single-file status page and uptime checker that works with SQLite, PostgreSQL or MySQL.
vectordotdev/vector
One collector that gathers logs and numbers from machines and sends them to one or more monitoring services.
slok/sloth 💎 hidden gem
Generates Prometheus alerting and recording rules from a short specification of a service level objective.
dokku/dokku
A small platform you install on one server, which builds and runs an app every time you push code to it.
netbox-community/netbox
A database of what a network and its hardware are supposed to look like, which other programs can read.
nicolargo/glances
A live view of one computer's health, in a terminal, in a browser, or through an AI assistant.
pyrra-dev/pyrra 💎 hidden gem
Writes Prometheus reliability rules from a short declaration, and shows the remaining error budget.
sergi0g/cup 💎 hidden gem
Shows which running containers have a newer image, as a command or a small web page.
AnalogJ/scrutiny
It shows whether the drives in a machine are healthy, failing, or already in trouble.
basecamp/kamal
It copies a packaged application onto rented servers and switches the traffic over without a gap.
psviderski/uncloud
It links a few servers into one private network and runs containers across them, with no central controller.
awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
A curated list of free software that can be run on your own machine, sorted by what the software does.
Dokploy/dokploy
A web screen for a rented server that deploys applications and databases the way a hosting company would.
openobserve/openobserve
One program that collects logs, numbers and request timings, and searches all three.
mag37/dockcheck 💎 hidden gem
It lists which containers have a newer version published and updates the ones you choose.
mrjackwills/oxker 💎 hidden gem
A small terminal screen that lists every container on a machine and controls it.
tstack/lnav
A log reader that puts many files into one timeline and answers questions about them in SQL.
NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager
A web screen that points domain names at programs and gets free HTTPS certificates that renew on their own.
domainaware/checkdmarc 💎 hidden gem
A command-line checker for the DNS records that decide whether a domain's email is accepted.
louislam/uptime-kuma
A self-hosted monitor that checks whether a site, port or certificate still answers.
imgproxy/imgproxy
A small image server that resizes and converts pictures as the browser asks for them.
coollabsio/coolify
A self-installed deployment platform that manages machines, applications and databases from one web interface.
apache/trafficserver
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
darkweak/souin
An HTTP cache system, RFC compliant, compatible with @tyktechnologies, @traefik, @caddyserver, @go-chi, @bnkamalesh, @beego, @devfeel, @labstack, @gofiber, @go-goyave, @go-kratos, @gin-gonic, @roadrunner-server, @zalando, @zeromicro, @nginx and @apache
docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver
Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container.
elliothux/open-compute
Self-hosted Cloudflare Workers-compatible platform with Workers、KV、D1、R2、DO、Queues、Workflows、Cron、Cache、Images、Vectorize、AI Search、Artifacts、Static Assets、Service Bindings、Dynamic Workers、LogTail、Gateway in one Rust binary.
FluidifyAI/Regen
Open-source oncall management Alerts, Incidents, AI post-mortems. Self-hosted alternative to PagerDuty & incident.io. BYO-AI, Works with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Slack, and Teams
goodrain/rainbond
Rainbond is an open-source container platform that requires no Kubernetes expertise. Its core capabilities are 100% open source. It abstracts away infrastructure complexity and provides a unified way to deploy and manage business applications, AI-generated projects, open-source AI software, and large language model services. AI helps teams deploy
hyperdxio/hyperdx
Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry.
icoretech/airbroke
🔥 Lightweight, Airbrake/Sentry-compatible, PostgreSQL-based Open Source Error Catcher
iredmail/iRedMail
Full-featured, open source mail server solution for mainstream Linux/BSD distributions.
kubero-dev/kubero
A free and self-hosted PaaS alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Coolify / Vercel / Dokku / Portainer running on Kubernetes
lissy93/domain-locker
🌐 The all-in-one tool, for keeping track of your domain name portfolio. Got domain names? Get Domain Locker!
lyc8503/UptimeFlare
✔ Free and serverless uptime monitoring / status page on Cloudflare Workers, with Geo-specific checks
mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.
measure-sh/measure
Measure helps mobile teams monitor and fix crashes, ANRs, bugs, and performance issues. The open source alternative to Firebase Crashlytics.
opsknight-labs/OpsKnight
The complete open-source platform for on-call management, incident response, and status pages. Self-hosted, extensible, and built for DevOps & SRE teams.
parseablehq/parseable
Parseable is an open source, unified infrastructure observability platform built in Rust on a data lake architecture. It tracks logs, metrics, traces, and events across apps, agents, and systems, reducing storage costs by up to 90% through columnar telemetry compression.
piku/piku
The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers.
podman-desktop/podman-desktop
Podman Desktop is the best free and open source tool to work with Containers and Kubernetes for developers. Get an intuitive and user-friendly interface to effortlessly build, manage, and deploy containers and Kubernetes — all from your desktop.
poweradmin/poweradmin
Web UI and REST API for PowerDNS: zones, records, DNSSEC, users, with Terraform and Kubernetes integrations
roxy-wi/IncidentRelay
Open-source self-hosted on-call scheduling, alert routing, escalation, and incident response platform for SRE and DevOps teams.
serverless/serverless
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
spinframework/spin
Spin is the open source developer tool for building and running serverless applications powered by WebAssembly.
target/goalert
Open source on-call scheduling, automated escalations, and notifications so you never miss a critical alert
VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaLogs
Fast and easy to use database for logs, which can efficiently handle terabytes of logs
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