Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to I replaced Grafana+Prometheus with a Go binary and SSH for my VPSs
I do fullstack dev for work and side projects and recently moved everything to a couple VPSs on hetzner. Great setup, low cost, but one thing kept bugging me, how do I know if something is down without manually sshing in all the time? I tried the grafana + prometheus stack but the configuration time and seeing it use more resources than my actual apps was rough. Tried some smaller solutions too but nothing felt right. So I said screw it and built exactly what I wanted. tori is a single go binary that runs on your server, reads host metrics from /proc and /sys, monitors containers…
Tori is a lightweight monitoring tool for VPS deployments that replaces heavier stacks like Grafana and Prometheus. A single Go binary collects host metrics, monitors Docker containers, and tails logs while storing… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…
2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →
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I work as a SAP Integration consultant and built this as a side project. Friction point: Most self hosted LLM observability tools require Postgres, Redis and non trivial infrastructure. Teams just want to see what their agents are actually doing in Production, that set up cost discorages adoption. Torrix runs as a single docker contained backed by SQLite. The full install is: curl -o docker-compose.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torrix-ai/install/main/doc... docker compose up No external dependencies. All data stays in a local SQLite file on your machine.…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ts-ssh solves a specific problem: accessing machines on your Tailnet from environments where you can't install the full Tailscale daemon (like CI/CD runners or restricted systems). It uses Tailscale's tsnet library to establish userspace connectivity, then provides a standard SSH experience. Works with existing workflows since it supports normal SSH features like ProxyCommand, key auth, and terminal handling. Some features that proved useful: • Parallel command execution across multiple hosts • Built-in tmux session management for multi-host work • SCP-style file transfers • Works on…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I have been self-hosting for almost two three years now, and one thing I have never quite figured out is how to monitor all the applications I host. At this stage, there are approximately forty running Docker containers so I really should have some means of monitoring what's
2023 · blog.randombits.host · its alternatives →
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Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS. Contribute to leodeim/vpsmon development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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crawl and scrape web pages in rust. Contribute to mattsse/voyager development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids - caprover/README.md at master · caprover/caprover
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Your observability stack, managed by us completely for free
2021 · grafana.com · its alternatives →
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Grownetics DevOps Open Source
2019 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →
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High performance secure & portable Rust functions in Node.js
2020 · secondstate.io · its alternatives →
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Hey, we built an open-source CLI in Go purposed to help you answer security questions across your cloud, code and runtime. It connects to your GitHub, GitLab, AWS, GCP, Azure & K8s using the credentials that are already in your shell, while limiting itself to read-only. The core innovation here is the trust boundary - our agent has a built-in code execution sandbox with no host or network access; it is exposed to an internal tool which we call an “action gate” that performs read-only HTTP requests to your own infrastructure. Since the cloud providers constantly expand actions and services,…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! My co-founder, Vijay and I are excited to open up Oodle for everyone. We used to be observability geeks at Rubrik. Our metrics bills grew like 20x over 4 years. We tried to control spend by getting better visibility, blocking high cardinality labels like pod_id, cluster_id, and customer_id. But that made debugging issues complicated. App engineers hated blocking metrics, and blocking others' code reviews was not fun for platform engineers either! Migrations (and lock-ins) were very painful, the first migration from Influx to Signalfx took 6+ months and the second migration from…
2024 · blog.oodle.ai · its alternatives →
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A simple golang application to automate the deployment of software releases. - skx/deployr
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Frustrated by the complexity and resource drain of multi service monitoring stacks, I built Simon. I wanted a single, lightweight dashboard to replace the heavy stack and the constant need for an SSH client for routine tasks. The result is a resource efficient dashboard in a single Rust binary, just a couple of megabytes in size. Its support for various architectures on Linux also makes it ideal for embedded systems and lightweight SBCs. It integrates: Comprehensive Monitoring: Realtime and historical metrics for the host system and Docker containers (CPU, memory, disk usage, and network…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This idea has been floating in my head for about 10 years. Some of you might remember LowEndSpirit.com back before it became a forum, I started that. I've been obsessed with making tiny, cheap VPS actually useful ever since. TierHive is my attempt to make 128MB VPS great again :) It's a NAT VPS (KVM) platform with true hourly billing. Spin up a server, use it for 3 hours, delete it, pay for 3 hours. No monthly commitments, no minimums beyond a $5 top-up. The tradeoff is NAT (no dedicated IPv4), but I've tried to make that less painful: - Every account gets a /24 private subnet with full…
Mar 2026 · tierhive.com · its alternatives →
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I don't know Rust. Friday after work I realised that 90% of my IDE time now is just the commit/diff view — and even good IDEs feel heavy for that. So over the weekend I built a dedicated native tool for just that. Kyde is a macOS git commit + diff editor with one goal: be fast, do Git well. I'm curious whether anyone else mostly opens their IDE for git operations these days. It's open source, and there's a signed app in Releases.
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Go library for collecting sql.DBStats in Prometheus format - dlmiddlecote/sqlstats
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · torus.host · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’ve been working on a side project called torserv and figured I’d share it now that it’s live on GitHub. TorServ is a zero-config static web server that automatically launches as a Tor hidden service. It’s written in Go, bundled with Tor, and designed to be unzip-and-run — no setup, no clearnet exposure, no surprises. I was surprised there wasn’t already a privacy-hardened static web server for hidden services. Most people have to wrangle Apache or Nginx with heavy config, which is risky and complex for non-experts. TorServ is meant for censorship-resistant publishing, quick…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Crabby monitors your websites and APIs and reports metrics to a variety of storage backends (Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, InfluxDB, etc). It gives you insight into timings like TTFB, DNS resolution, TLS negotiation, server processing, and content delivery. It also supports chromedp for automated gathering of browser metrics like page render timings. It's very easy to configure and includes a Helm chart for deployment into K8S.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We’re excited to share PerfAgents, a synthetic monitoring tool built for startups and enterprises seeking robust and proactive monitoring across global regions. TL;DR: PerfAgents is a synthetic monitoring platform that uses your existing E2E automation scripts (Playwright, Puppeteer, Cypress, and Selenium) for web app monitoring, reducing setup time by 80%. No complex integrations, no vendor lock-in, and proactive alerts that let you catch bugs before users do. Problem We’re Solving: Ensuring application reliability across all regions is tough, especially when existing monitoring…
2024 · perfagents.com · its alternatives →
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an opinionated blueprint for deploying Forgejo in an OrbStack VM with Ubuntu, PostgreSQL and the tsbridge reverse proxy - highpost/forgejo-appliance
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SSH-Snake is a self-propagating, self-replicating, file-less script that automates the post-exploitation task of SSH private key and host discovery. - MegaManSec/SSH-Snake
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TL;DR: I built a lightweight, self-hosted HTTP tunnel that turns localhost into a public HTTPS URL. No paid plans, no secret black boxes. Just one Go binary, Caddy with wildcard TLS, and a $0/month Oracle Cloud VM. GitHub repo Why I Built It My development workflow lives mostly on a free Oracle Clou
2025 · nexo.sh · its alternatives →
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