Best Open-Source Monitoring Tools in 2026

Monitoring tools here track uptime, errors, logs, and system health. Grafana visualizes metrics, logs, and traces from sources like Prometheus and Loki; Sentry focuses on error tracking and performance; Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted uptime checker. Checkmate and Changedetection.io cover server incidents and web page change alerts.

The most popular open-source Monitoring tool by GitHub stars is Uptime Kuma(85.1k stars), followed by Netdata(78.4k stars)and Grafana(73.2k stars). This page lists the top 22 of 22 monitoring tools in the directory, ranked by community adoption.

Quick comparison

Best open-source Monitoring tools in 2026, ranked by GitHub stars
#ToolStarsLanguageLicense
1Uptime Kuma

A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool for keeping tabs on website uptime and performance.

85.1kJavaScriptMIT License
2Netdata

An advanced monitoring software providing real-time performance and health monitoring for your infrastructure.

78.4kCGNU General Public License v3.0
3Grafana

The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

73.2kTypeScriptGNU Affero General Public License v3.0
4Prometheus

The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database for collecting and storing metrics as time series data.

63.5kGoApache License 2.0
5Traefik

A powerful Cloud Native Application Proxy designed for ease of use and automation. It seamlessly integrates with your infrastructure components and configures itself automatically and dynamically.

62.7kGoMIT License
6Huginn

Create agents that watch for certain triggers and perform automated actions, making it a personal IFTTT. Your agents are standing by to automate tasks on your behalf.

49.1kRubyMIT License
7Sentry

Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring to help you improve your software applications' reliability and speed.

43.6kPythonOther
8Influxdb

Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics. Optimized for time-series data.

31.4kRustApache License 2.0
9Changedetection.io

The best and simplest open-source web page change detection and notification service. Monitor changes to websites, get restock alerts, and price change notifications. Designed for simplicity and free to use.

31.1kPythonApache License 2.0
10Loki

A horizontally-scalable, highly-available log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus, tailored for on-demand, distributed log processing.

28.0kGoGNU Affero General Public License v3.0

All 22 Monitoring tools

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best open-source monitoring tool in 2026?

Uptime Kuma leads by GitHub stars(85.1k). A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool for keeping tabs on website uptime and performance.

Are these monitoring tools free?

Yes. Every tool on this list is open source and free to use in your own projects. Many can be self-hosted.

How is this list ranked?

Tools are ranked by GitHub star count, a strong proxy for community adoption and active maintenance. Star counts are refreshed regularly.

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