Checkmate tracks service availability, response times and server health from a self-hosted installation.
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.
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.
7 matching tools
| Tool | Deployment | Source | API | Pricing model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checkmate | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | open source |
| Grafana | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | freemium |
| Netdata | Self-hosted | Open source | Not specified | freemium |
| OpenObserve | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | open source |
| Prometheus | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | open source |
| Uptime Kuma | Self-hosted | Open source | Not specified | open source |
| Zabbix | Self-hosted | Open source | Available | open source |
Grafana 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.
Netdata collects system and service metrics and evaluates alerts near the monitored nodes.
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.
Prometheus 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.
Uptime 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.
Zabbix monitors servers, network devices, applications and cloud services using agents, SNMP, and other collection methods, with built-in alerting, templates, and high-availability clustering.