CheckmateIT Operations & SysadminCheckmate tracks service availability, response times and server health from a self-hosted installation.
Open sourceSelf-hostedAPIopen source
Technical shortlist
Open-source network monitoring tools
Define what must be observed: reachability, device health, traffic, service behavior or application telemetry. SNMP polling, flow analysis, agents and synthetic checks solve different operational problems.
For network engineers, sysadmins, SREs and MSP teams monitoring mixed infrastructure.
Lead with the workload
The decision to make
Test the platform against real devices, interfaces and failure scenarios. Focus on discovery accuracy, alert noise, topology, polling scale and the work required to maintain templates.
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Available profiles
All tools →7 matching tools
| Tool | Deployment | Source model | API | Pricing model | Primary source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checkmate | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | open source | Official source ↗ |
| Grafana | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | freemium | Official source ↗ |
| Netdata | Self-hosted | Open source | Not specified | freemium | Official source ↗ |
| OpenObserve | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | open source | Official source ↗ |
| Prometheus | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | open source | Official source ↗ |
| Uptime Kuma | Self-hosted | Open source | Not specified | open source | Official source ↗ |
| Zabbix | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | open source | Official source ↗ |
CheckmateIT Operations & Sysadmin
GrafanaMonitoring & ObservabilityGrafana is an open source visualization and dashboarding platform that queries metrics, logs, and traces from Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and dozens of other backends, with Grafana Cloud offering a hosted option.
Open sourceSelf-hostedAPIfreemium
NetdataMonitoring & ObservabilityNetdata collects system and service metrics and evaluates alerts near the monitored nodes.
Open sourceSelf-hostedfreemium
OpenObserve natively unifies logs, metrics, distributed traces, and real-user monitoring in a single self-hostable platform. Written in Rust, it stores data at a fraction of the cost of Elasticsearch.
Open sourceSelf-hostedAPIopen source
PrometheusMonitoring & ObservabilityPrometheus scrapes time-series metrics from instrumented targets, stores them locally, and evaluates alerting rules with PromQL, forwarding alerts to Alertmanager. It has no built-in dashboarding or long-term storage layer of its own.
Open sourceSelf-hostedAPIopen source
Uptime KumaMonitoring & ObservabilityUptime Kuma is an open-source, self-hosted monitor for websites, APIs, servers, DNS, SSL certs and Docker containers, with status pages and 90+ notification integrations.
Open sourceSelf-hostedopen source
ZabbixMonitoring & ObservabilityZabbix monitors servers, network devices, applications and cloud services using agents, SNMP, and other collection methods, with built-in alerting, templates, and high-availability clustering.
Open sourceSelf-hostedAPIopen source