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Monitoring projects on GitHub

Observability tools that track uptime, metrics, logs, and system health.

As of , the most-starred Monitoring projects on GitHub are free-for-dev (139.7K stars), paperclip (103.3K stars) and RuView (98.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 418 Monitoring repositories with 6.3M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was dsh-our-free-model, with +1.7K stars in a day.

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  1. #1 · ripienaar/free-for-dev

    free-for-dev

    A curated list of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS offerings that have free tiers useful for DevOps engineers, sysadmins, and infrastructure developers.

    139.7K
  2. #2 · paperclipai/paperclip

    paperclip

    Paperclip is an open-source Node.js server and React UI for orchestrating a whole team of AI agents to run a business — assigning goals, tracking work, and managing costs from one dashboard instead of babysitting individual agent sessions.

    103.3K
  3. #3 · ruvnet/RuView

    RuView

    RuView turns ordinary WiFi signals into a spatial-intelligence sensor — it detects presence, measures breathing and heart rate, tracks motion and falls, and even estimates body pose through walls, using Channel State Information (CSI) captured by cheap ESP32 boards, with no cameras or wearables.

    98.4K
  1. 4

    uptime-kuma

    92.6Klouislam/uptime-kuma · JavaScript

    Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted uptime and server monitoring tool with a fancy web UI, status pages, and notifications when your services go down.

  2. 5

    worldmonitor

    88.6Kkoala73/worldmonitor · TypeScript

    World Monitor is a real-time global intelligence dashboard that aggregates and AI-synthesizes news, geopolitical signals, and infrastructure data into one situational-awareness interface.

  3. 6

    netdata

    81Knetdata/netdata · Go

    Netdata is an open-source, real-time infrastructure monitoring platform that collects per-second metrics, visualizes them, and detects anomalies with machine learning.

  4. 7

    elasticsearch

    78.3Kelastic/elasticsearch · Java

    Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine, scalable data store, and vector database built for near real-time full-text search, vector search, and generative AI (RAG) use cases on production-scale data; it's the core of Elastic's Stack platform.

  5. 8

    grafana

    77.3Kgrafana/grafana · TypeScript

    Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability: it lets you query, visualize, alert on, and explore metrics, logs, and traces from many data sources in one place.

  6. 9

    Mole

    70.8Ktw93/Mole · Shell

    Mole is a free, open-source command-line tool for macOS (mo) that cleans junk files, uninstalls apps, analyzes disk usage, runs system maintenance, and shows live hardware/network status, rolling CleanMyMac, AppCleaner, DaisyDisk, and iStat Menus-style features into one terminal binary.

  7. 10

    prometheus

    66.6Kprometheus/prometheus · Go

    Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring tool: it scrapes metrics from configured targets at set intervals, evaluates rule expressions over that data, displays results, and fires alerts when conditions are met.

  8. 11

    TrendRadar

    63Ksansan0/TrendRadar · Python

    TrendRadar is an AI-driven public opinion and trend monitoring tool that aggregates trending topics from many Chinese platforms plus RSS feeds, filters them with keywords or AI, and pushes a smart briefing to your phone or desktop.

  9. 12

    pathway

    62.1Kpathwaycom/pathway · Python

    Pathway is a Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG, with the same code usable for batch jobs, CI/CD tests, and live data streams.

  10. 13

    chrome-devtools-mcp

    53.7KChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp · TypeScript

    chrome-devtools-mcp is an MCP server that lets coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Copilot or Antigravity control and inspect a live Chrome browser using the full power of Chrome DevTools.

  11. 14

    lazydocker

    53.2Kjesseduffield/lazydocker · Go

    Lazydocker is a simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose, written in Go with the gocui library - 'the lazier way to manage everything docker', as its tagline goes.

  12. 15

    huginn

    50.1Khuginn/huginn · Ruby

    Huginn lets you build 'agents' that watch the web for events and act on your behalf — a self-hosted, hackable alternative to IFTTT or Zapier.

  13. 16

    TrafficMonitor

    46.6Kzhongyang219/TrafficMonitor · C++

    TrafficMonitor is a floating desktop widget for Windows that shows your current network speed, CPU usage, and memory usage in real time, with optional taskbar embedding and skins.

  14. 17

    sentry

    45.6Kgetsentry/sentry · Python

    Sentry is a developer-first platform for error tracking and performance monitoring that helps teams detect, trace, and fix issues in their code faster.

  15. 18

    hyperswitch

    45.3Kjuspay/hyperswitch · Rust

    Hyperswitch is an open-source, composable payments platform that lets businesses route, retry, vault, and reconcile payments across 120+ payment processors like Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, and Worldpay, either self-hosted or as a SaaS.

  16. 19

    edex-ui

    45KGitSquared/edex-ui · JavaScript

    eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor styled like a sci-fi computer interface, heavily inspired by TRON: Legacy's Board Room scene. It combines a real terminal with live CPU/RAM/network monitoring and touchscreen support.

  17. 20

    ray

    44.1Kray-project/ray · Python

    Ray is an open-source framework for scaling AI and Python applications: a core distributed runtime plus a set of AI libraries that simplify ML compute.

  18. 21

    pm2

    43.3KUnitech/pm2 · JavaScript

    PM2 is a production process manager for Node.js and Bun applications that keeps them running forever, reloads them without downtime, and includes a built-in load balancer.

  19. 22

    stats

    42.6Kexelban/stats · Swift

    A free, open-source macOS system monitor in your menu bar: it shows CPU, GPU, memory, disk and network usage, battery level, temperatures, Bluetooth devices and a multi-timezone clock.

  20. 23

    BettaFish

    42.4K666ghj/BettaFish · Python

    BettaFish (Chinese name 'Weiyu'/微舆) is a from-scratch multi-agent public opinion analysis system that monitors social media and large volumes of public comments, then produces reports to help break information bubbles and support decision-making.

  21. 24

    dubbo

    41.6Kapache/dubbo · Java

    Apache Dubbo is an RPC and microservices framework — this repository is its Java implementation. It covers communication, service discovery, traffic management, observability, security, and tooling for building enterprise-grade microservices.

  22. 25

    sniffnet

    41.6KGyulyVGC/sniffnet · Rust

    Sniffnet is a cross-platform desktop app for monitoring your network traffic in real time, with a graphical interface instead of raw terminal output.

  23. 26

    quivr

    39.6KThe-Vibe-Company/quivr · Go

    Quivr is an open-source engine that turns your files and content streams into search and monitoring — a 'second brain' you can query, built around an opinionated RAG powered by generative AI.

  24. 27

    istio

    38.4Kistio/istio · Go

    Istio is an open-source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications, giving you a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices with few or no code changes.

  25. 28

    dokploy

    37.8KDokploy/dokploy · TypeScript

    Dokploy is a free, self-hostable PaaS for deploying and managing applications and databases — an open-source alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku.

  26. 29

    arthas

    37.6Kalibaba/arthas · Java

    Arthas is a Java diagnostic tool from Alibaba that lets developers troubleshoot production issues on a live JVM without modifying code or restarting the server.

  27. 30

    glance

    37.5Kglanceapp/glance · Go

    Glance is a self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place: a single streamlined web page where you arrange widgets for RSS, Reddit, weather, YouTube, market prices and server stats.

  28. 31

    AdGuardHome

    37.5KAdguardTeam/AdGuardHome · TypeScript

    A free, open-source network-wide DNS server that blocks ads and trackers for every device on your home network: it re-routes tracking domains to a 'black hole', so no client-side software is needed on the devices themselves.

  29. 32

    1Panel

    37.2K1Panel-dev/1Panel · Go

    1Panel is an open-source Linux server management panel and lightweight AI management platform: a web GUI that gives you one-stop control over servers, websites, apps and AI agents.

  30. 33

    awesome-docker

    37.1Kveggiemonk/awesome-docker

    A curated ('awesome list') index of Docker-related projects and resources: engines, image builders, registries, orchestration tools, networking/security tooling, desktop/terminal UIs and learning materials.

  31. 34

    frigate

    36.7Kblakeblackshear/frigate · Python

    Frigate is a complete, local network video recorder (NVR) that performs realtime AI object detection on IP camera feeds, built specifically for tight integration with Home Assistant.

  32. 35

    node

    36.4Kinkonchain/node · Shell

    A Docker Compose setup for running an Ink node (an Ethereum L2 built on the OP Stack), including the execution client, rollup node, and monitoring stack.

  33. 36

    langfuse

    35.9Klangfuse/langfuse · TypeScript

    Langfuse is an open source LLM engineering platform for tracing, evaluating, and debugging LLM and agent applications, with prompt management and a playground built in.

  34. 37

    awesome-sysadmin

    35.4Kawesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin

    A curated list of free and open-source sysadmin tools, covering everything from backups and configuration management to monitoring, CI/CD, virtualization, and VPNs.

  35. 38

    changedetection.io

    35.1Kdgtlmoon/changedetection.io · Python

    changedetection.io monitors websites for changes and sends you alerts when content updates, prices drop, items restock, or pages get defaced.

  36. 39

    btop

    35Karistocratos/btop · C++

    A terminal resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It is the C++ version and continuation of bashtop and bpytop.

  37. 40

    k9s

    34.8Kderailed/k9s · Go

    K9s is a terminal UI that lets you navigate, observe and manage Kubernetes clusters in real time instead of typing raw kubectl commands.

  38. 41

    glances

    33.8Knicolargo/glances · Python

    Glances is an open-source cross-platform system monitoring tool, a top/htop alternative that shows CPU, memory, disk, network, containers, sensors, and running processes in one dashboard, reachable via terminal, web UI, API, or an MCP server for AI assistants.

  39. 42

    homepage

    33.2Kgethomepage/homepage · JavaScript

    Homepage is a fully static, highly customizable application dashboard (startpage) that aggregates service widgets, Docker container stats, bookmarks, and information widgets like weather and search in one place.

  40. 43

    claude-code-templates

    32.7Kdavila7/claude-code-templates · Python

    A CLI tool for configuring and monitoring Anthropic's Claude Code: a catalog of 100+ ready-made components — AI agents, slash commands, MCPs, settings, hooks and skills — plus utilities for monitoring your AI coding sessions.

  41. 44

    signoz

    32.4KSigNoz/signoz · TypeScript

    SigNoz is an open-source observability platform built on OpenTelemetry: logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and dashboards in one tool for debugging production apps and monitoring AI agents.

  42. 45

    dragonfly

    31.8Kdragonflydb/dragonfly · C++

    An in-memory data store built as a modern replacement for Redis and Memcached — fully compatible with both APIs, so no code changes needed; it claims 25X more throughput on up to 80% fewer resources.

  43. 46

    influxdb

    31.8Kinfluxdata/influxdb · Rust

    InfluxDB 3 Core is an open source time series database built to collect, process, transform, and store event and time series data, written in Rust on top of Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet.

  44. 47

    pentagi

    30.8Kvxcontrol/pentagi · Go

    PentAGI (Penetration testing Artificial General Intelligence) is a fully autonomous AI agent system that performs complex penetration testing tasks for you.

  45. 48

    wttr.in

    30.7Kchubin/wttr.in · Go

    wttr.in is a console-oriented weather forecast service: you check the weather with curl from a terminal or open it in a browser, and it draws the forecast as ASCII art for terminals, HTML for browsers, or PNG images for graphical viewers.

  46. 49

    xxl-job

    30.6Kxuxueli/xxl-job · Java

    XXL-JOB is a distributed task scheduling framework: a central scheduler triggers jobs across a cluster of executors, all managed from a web UI. It aims to be quick to develop with, simple to learn, lightweight and easy to extend, and many companies run it in production.

  47. 50

    consul

    30.1Khashicorp/consul · Go

    Consul is a distributed, highly available, data center aware solution for connecting and configuring applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure. It is built to be datacenter aware and can support any number of regions without complex configuration.

  48. 51

    sim

    29.8Ksimstudioai/sim · TypeScript

    Sim is a collaborative workspace for building, deploying, and monitoring AI agents and workflows, used by 100,000+ builders. Agents can be built visually, in chat, or with code.

  49. 52

    ProxmoxVE

    29.8Kcommunity-scripts/ProxmoxVE · Shell

    A community-maintained set of one-command install scripts for Proxmox VE: paste a single line into your Proxmox shell and it sets up a popular self-hosted service as a ready container or VM.

  50. 53

    apollo

    29.8Kapolloconfig/apollo · Java

    Apollo is a reliable configuration management system. It centrally manages the configurations of different applications and different clusters, and is built for microservice configuration management scenarios.

  51. 54

    canal

    29.7Kalibaba/canal · Java

    Canal is Alibaba's MySQL binlog incremental subscription and consumption component. It disguises itself as a MySQL slave, pulls binlog events from a MySQL master, and lets you consume the parsed changes for things like cache refresh, index building, or database synchronization.

  52. 55

    kestra

    29.7Kkestra-io/kestra · Java

    Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform for building data, AI, and infrastructure workflows. You describe them in declarative YAML and manage everything from a built-in web UI.

  53. 56

    phantomjs

    29.4Kariya/phantomjs · C++

    PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript: a real browser engine that loads and manipulates web pages without any visible browser window.

  54. 57

    srs

    29.3Kossrs/srs · C++

    SRS (Simple Realtime Server) is a simple, high-performance, AI-driven real-time media server for live streaming: RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, SRT, MPEG-DASH, and GB28181, with codecs from H.264 to AV1, VP9, AAC, Opus, and G.711.

  55. 58

    loki

    29Kgrafana/loki · Go

    Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system from Grafana — like Prometheus, but for logs.

  56. 59

    redash

    28.8Kgetredash/redash · Python

    Redash is an open-source business intelligence platform: you connect data sources, explore and query them, visualize the results and share dashboards with your team. Thousands of organizations use it for data-driven decisions.

  57. 60

    claude-hud

    28.6Kjarrodwatts/claude-hud · JavaScript

    Claude HUD is a Claude Code plugin that adds a live statusline showing context usage, active tools, running agents, and todo progress, always visible below your input.

  58. 61

    mlflow

    28.4Kmlflow/mlflow · Python

    MLflow is an open source AI engineering platform for agents, LLM apps, and classic ML models: one place to trace, evaluate, monitor, and optimize production AI while controlling costs. It is widely adopted, with over 60 million monthly downloads.

  59. 62

    awesome-actions

    28.3Ksdras/awesome-actions

    A curated, categorized index of GitHub Actions: ready-made actions, workflow examples, official resources and tutorials you can plug into your repository's automation.

  60. 63

    druid

    28.2Kalibaba/druid · Java

    Druid is an open-source, high-performance Java database connection pool and SQL parser built by Alibaba's DataWorks team. It combines a JDBC connection pool, a multi-dialect SQL parser/AST analyzer, a SQL firewall, and monitoring statistics into one library.

  61. 64

    wg-easy

    27.2Kwg-easy/wg-easy · TypeScript

    wg-easy is an all-in-one package that bundles WireGuard VPN with a web-based admin UI, letting you install and manage WireGuard on a Linux host without touching config files manually.

  62. 65

    dashy

    26.7Klissy93/dashy · Vue

    Dashy is a self-hostable personal dashboard: a single, highly customizable start page for your homelab that gathers all your apps, links and services in one place, with status checks, widgets, themes and instant search built in.

  63. 66

    nodemon

    26.7Kremy/nodemon · JavaScript

    nodemon is a development tool for Node.js apps: it watches your project directory and automatically restarts the application whenever file changes are detected, so you never restart the server by hand while coding.

  64. 67

    miaosha

    26.6Kqiurunze123/miaosha · Java

    This is a Chinese learning repository about designing and building a high-concurrency 'flash sale' (seckill) system for internet engineers, combining iterative demo projects, small frameworks, study notes and diagrams covering distributed-systems topics.

  65. 68

    docker_practice

    26.3Kyeasy/docker_practice · Go

    An open-source Chinese book that takes you from zero to real DevOps practice with Docker: core concepts, internals and hands-on skills for developers, ops engineers and architects.

  66. 69

    beszel

    26.3Khenrygd/beszel · Go

    Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform with a friendly web interface. It tracks historical metrics and Docker container stats, sends alerts, and is ready to use out of the box.

  67. 70

    faas

    26.3Kopenfaas/faas · Go

    An open-source serverless platform for Kubernetes: package your code or an existing binary as an OCI/Docker image and get a scalable, auto-scaling HTTP endpoint with metrics, without boilerplate.

  68. 71

    logrus

    25.8Ksirupsen/logrus · Go

    A structured logger for Go — a library you import into your application, completely API-compatible with the standard library logger.

  69. 72

    cilium

    25.7Kcilium/cilium · Go

    Cilium is open-source networking, security, and observability software built on an eBPF dataplane, used mainly as the networking layer of Kubernetes clusters.

  70. 73

    kuboard-press

    25.3Keip-work/kuboard-press · Shell

    Kuboard is a free management interface built for Kubernetes (compatible with K8s 1.13+) that turns cluster management into a visual web dashboard. This repo holds the source of its v4 documentation site.

  71. 74

    vegeta

    25.2Ktsenart/vegeta · Go

    Vegeta is a versatile HTTP load testing tool that drills HTTP services with a constant request rate — its tagline: It's over 9000! It works as both a CLI and a Go library and avoids Coordinated Omission.

  72. 75

    TDengine

    25.2Ktaosdata/TDengine · C

    TDengine is an open-source, high-performance, cloud-native, AI-powered time-series database built for IoT, Connected Cars, and Industrial IoT workloads, handling TB-to-PB scale data from billions of sensors.

  73. 76

    skywalking

    25Kapache/skywalking · Java

    Apache SkyWalking is an open-source APM (Application Performance Monitoring) system for monitoring, tracing and diagnosing distributed systems. It is built for microservices, cloud native and container-based architectures.

  74. 77

    watchtower

    24.6Kcontainrrr/watchtower · Go

    Watchtower automates Docker container updates: push a new image to your registry and it pulls it, stops the old container and starts the new version in its place.

  75. 78

    awesome-sysadmin

    24.4Kkahun/awesome-sysadmin

    A curated, categorized list of open-source sysadmin tools and resources, covering backups, monitoring, configuration management, DNS, security, networking, and dozens of other admin topics.

  76. 79

    prefect

    24KPrefectHQ/prefect · Python

    Prefect is a Python workflow orchestration framework for turning ordinary scripts into resilient, production-grade data pipelines with scheduling, retries, caching, and event-based automations.

  77. 80

    osquery

    23.7Kosquery/osquery · C++

    osquery is a SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics framework: it exposes your OS as a high-performance relational database you can query with SQL.

  78. 81

    API-Security-Checklist

    23.3Kshieldfy/API-Security-Checklist

    A community checklist of the most important security countermeasures to apply when designing, testing, and releasing an API — a list of checkboxes you run through before shipping.

  79. 82

    jaeger

    23.3Kjaegertracing/jaeger · Go

    Jaeger is a distributed tracing platform that helps you monitor and troubleshoot requests as they flow through microservices-based systems.

  80. 83

    lens

    23.2Klensapp/lens

    Lens is a desktop IDE for Kubernetes — one context-aware UI for managing and troubleshooting clusters and workloads, and the most popular one out there, with over 1 million users.

  81. 84

    Sentinel

    23.1Kalibaba/Sentinel · Java

    Sentinel is a flow control, traffic shaping, circuit breaking and system adaptive overload protection component for microservices, built and battle-tested at Alibaba across years of Double-11 shopping festivals.

  82. 85

    claude-code

    22.9Kclaude-code-best/claude-code · TypeScript

    Claude Code Best (CCB) is a full open-source engineering reconstruction of Anthropic's official Claude Code CLI agent — buildable, runnable and debuggable — extended with extra features like goal-driven workflows, multi-agent orchestration, voice input and computer/browser control, while keeping full compatibility with the original Claude Code configuration.

  83. 86

    vector

    22.7Kvectordotdev/vector · Rust

    An open-source, high-performance observability data pipeline: it collects, transforms, and routes your logs and metrics to any vendors you choose, so you keep control of your observability data. It is maintained by Datadog's Community Open Source Engineering team.

  84. 87

    bcc

    22.7Kiovisor/bcc · C

    BCC (BPF Compiler Collection) is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs on Linux using eBPF. It also ships a large collection of ready-made tools for I/O analysis, networking, and monitoring.

  85. 88

    witr

    22.7Kpranshuparmar/witr · Go

    witr answers one question: 'why is this running?' Point it at a process, port, container, or file, and it traces the exact chain of supervisors, services, and shells that started it.

  86. 89

    opik

    22.7Kcomet-ml/opik · Python

    Opik is an open-source platform for debugging, evaluating, and monitoring LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows, with tracing, automated evaluation, and production dashboards.

  87. 90

    rocketmq

    22.6Kapache/rocketmq · Java

    Apache RocketMQ is an open-source distributed messaging and streaming platform for building event-driven applications, with low latency, trillion-level capacity and flexible scalability.

  88. 91

    CodexBar

    22.6Ksteipete/CodexBar · Swift

    CodexBar is a tiny macOS 14+ menu bar app that keeps AI coding-provider usage limits visible and shows when each usage window resets, so you can plan long tasks instead of guessing whether you have quota left.

  89. 92

    thingsboard

    22.6Kthingsboard/thingsboard · Java

    ThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for device management, data collection, processing, and visualization: connect devices, store their telemetry, and build dashboards on top.

  90. 93

    openobserve

    22.4Kopenobserve/openobserve · TypeScript

    OpenObserve is an open-source, cloud-native observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, frontend monitoring (RUM), session replay and AI/LLM observability — a cost-effective alternative to Datadog, Splunk and Elasticsearch.

  91. 94

    go-redis

    22.3Kredis/go-redis · Go

    The official Redis client library for Go: you import it into your Go program to talk to Redis servers. It targets the last three Redis releases and speaks both RESP2 and RESP3.

  92. 95

    eladmin

    21.9Kelunez/eladmin · Java

    ELADMIN is an open-source, front-end/back-end separated admin management system built on Spring Boot 2.7.18, JPA, Spring Security, JWT, Redis and Vue — a base system that handles users, roles, menus and permissions for your own business apps.

  93. 96

    monolog

    21.4KSeldaek/monolog · PHP

    Monolog is a logging library for PHP: it takes the logs your application produces and sends them to files, sockets, inboxes, databases and various web services.

  94. 97

    skills

    21.4Kgoogle/skills · Python

    This is a collection of Agent Skills for Google products and technologies, covering Google Cloud, GKE, BigQuery, Firebase, Google Ads, and more, meant to be installed into coding/agent harnesses.

  95. 98

    kibana

    21.3Kelastic/kibana · TypeScript

    Kibana is the open source interface for querying, analyzing, visualizing, and managing your data stored in Elasticsearch — effectively the web window into an Elastic Stack deployment.

  96. 99

    HikariCP

    21.2Kbrettwooldridge/HikariCP · Java

    A high-performance JDBC connection pool for Java: it keeps a ready pool of database connections your app can reuse instead of opening a new one for every request. It is billed as zero-overhead and production ready.

  97. 100

    FanControl.Releases

    21.1KRem0o/FanControl.Releases

    Fan Control is a highly customizable fan-controlling app for Windows: it drives your PC's CPU, GPU and case fans from temperature-based curves you design in a GUI.

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