Grafana
Monitoring & StatusOpen observability dashboards and visualization
Replaces Datadog
Best Plugins Monitoring & Status for self-hosting
The 14 best Plugins monitoring & status you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
Telegraf
Monitoring & StatusPlugin-driven server agent for collecting metrics
Replaces Datadog Agent
Logstash
Monitoring & StatusServer-side data processing pipeline for logs
Replaces Fluentd
Fluentd
Monitoring & StatusUnified logging layer for collecting and routing data
Replaces Logstash
OpenTelemetry Collector
Monitoring & StatusVendor-agnostic agent for telemetry collection and export
Replaces Datadog Agent
collectd
Monitoring & StatusLightweight system statistics collection daemon
Replaces Datadog Agent
Icinga 2
Monitoring & StatusScalable monitoring system that watches hosts and networks
Replaces SolarWinds, PRTG
Munin
Monitoring & StatusNetworked resource monitoring with plug-and-play graphs
Replaces Datadog
Nagios Core
Monitoring & StatusIndustry classic host and service monitoring engine
Replaces SolarWinds, PRTG
Cacti
Monitoring & StatusRRDtool-based network graphing and monitoring solution
Replaces PRTG, SolarWinds
Shinken
Monitoring & StatusPython monitoring framework compatible with Nagios
Replaces SolarWinds
Icinga Web 2
Monitoring & StatusModern web interface for the Icinga monitoring system
Replaces Nagios XI, op5 Monitor
Thruk
Monitoring & StatusMulti-backend monitoring web interface for Nagios family
Replaces SolarWinds
Naemon
Monitoring & StatusNetwork monitoring core based on the Nagios codebase
Replaces SolarWinds, PRTG
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At a glance
| App | Deploy effort | Difficulty | Min. RAM | License | ★ Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grafana | ≈5-minute setup | Medium | 512 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 77,299 |
| Telegraf | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 64 MB | MIT | 17,856 |
| Logstash | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 1,024 MB | Apache-2.0 | 14,966 |
| Fluentd | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 128 MB | Apache-2.0 | 13,606 |
| OpenTelemetry Collector | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 128 MB | Apache-2.0 | 7,658 |
| collectd | Read-the-docs project | Medium | 32 MB | MIT | 3,371 |
| Icinga 2 | Under-an-hour setup | Hard | 512 MB | GPL-2.0 | 2,240 |
| Munin | Read-the-docs project | Easy | 128 MB | GPL-2.0 | 2,144 |
| Nagios Core | Under-an-hour setup | Hard | 512 MB | GPL-2.0 | 2,051 |
| Cacti | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | GPL-2.0 | 1,880 |
Quick picks
- Most adopted: Grafana (77,299 GitHub stars).
- Lightest footprint: collectd (from 32 MB RAM, against 1,024 MB for the heaviest here).
- Fastest to deploy: Grafana (verified single-container compose).
- Licensing: 6 of 14 use GPL-2.0; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.
Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Plugins within the monitoring & status category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.