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Checkmate

Checkmate handles monitor servers, websites, Docker containers, and infrastructure as a self-hosted solution.

AGPL-3.0 Free bluewave-labs/checkmate · 9.4K checkmate.so TypeScript 3 deploy options Plugins Webhooks i18n

Overview

Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted tool designed to track and monitor server hardware, uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time with beautiful visualizations. Don’t be shy, join here: https://discord.com/invite/NAb6H3UTjK :) Monitor your servers, websites, Docker containers, and infrastructure with Checkmate. Open-source, self-hosted, and built for teams who value control. The project has 9K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

  • Completely open source, deployable on your servers or home devices (e.g Raspberry Pi 4 or 5)
  • Website monitoring
  • Page speed monitoring
  • Infrastructure monitoring (memory, disk usage, CPU performance, network etc) - requires Capture agent
  • Selective disk monitoring with mountpoint selection
  • Docker monitoring
  • Ping monitoring
  • SSL monitoring
  • Port monitoring
  • Game server monitoring (3.0)

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

See installation instructions in Checkmate documentation portal.

Alternatively, you can also use Elestio, K8s, Sive Host (South Africa) or Pikapods to quickly spin off a Checkmate instance. If you would like to monitor your server infrastructure, you’ll need Capture agent. Capture repository also contains the installation instructions.

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

discord integration, docker, helm, kubernetes, mongodb, multi language, plugins, redis, slack integration, ssl tls, webhooks.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel
elestio

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo
pikapods

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

Integrations & APIs

  • Discord Integration
  • Plugin / Extension System
  • Slack Integration
  • Webhooks

Security & Privacy

  • SSL / TLS / HTTPS

Localization & Accessibility

  • Multi-Language / i18n

Category

Monitoring & Observability (92) Server Monitoring (59) Server Management (72) Uptime & Status Pages (15)

Replaces

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uptimerobot
UptimeRobot
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zabbix
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incident-io
incident.io
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