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24 alternatives to NetPulse

Self-hosted, metrics-first internet speed tracker.

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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    The world’s most trusted internet speedtest

    2016 · beta.speedtest.net · its alternatives →

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    Take a speedtest from your Mac's Menu Bar

    2017 · speedtest.net · its alternatives →

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    Like Speedtest, but never stops monitoring your connection

    May 2026 · netpulse.eu.cc · its alternatives →

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    Simple, Realtime Network Bandwidth Monitor for your Mac.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Test your download speed using SpeedTest on the command-line

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    pg_netstat is a Postgres extension to monitor database network traffic. It uses libpcap to capture packets and aggregates at user-specified interval.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source internet speed monitor and bandwidth checker. Automated 24/7 speed tests with Ookla Speedtest CLI, real-time analytics dashboard, Home Assistant add-on, ISP performance grading, outage detection, and network diagnostics. Self-hosted, private, Raspberry Pi ready. - akustikrausch/gonzales

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    See what your AI Agents are doing under the hood

    Feb 2026 · its alternatives →

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    A local Mac network monitor that lives in your menu bar

    Jul 2026 · net-pulse.app · its alternatives →

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    Senior full stack software engineer with 8+ years shipping production systems in React, Node.js, Python, and Rails. Previously a Product Engineer at Ghost. Based in South Korea.

    2021 · ronaldlangeveld.com · its alternatives →

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    Benchmarking app performance on the modern web

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted & easy to use uptime monitoring software.

    2022 · 66uptime.com · its alternatives →

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    Know when your automations run, fail, or go quiet.

    Apr 2026 · flowpulse.sh · its alternatives →

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    Uptrace is an all-in-one tool that supports distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. It uses OpenTelelemetry observability framework to collect data and ClickHouse database to store it. You can ingest data using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Vector Logs, and Zipkin API. You can also use OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Prometheus metrics or receive data from Jaeger, X Ray, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL and many more. The latest Uptrace release introduces support for OpenTelemetry Metrics which includes: - User interface to build table-based and grid-based dashboards. - Pre-built dashboard…

    2022 · app.uptrace.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN - I’m the developer of PingStalker, a macOS utility I built to see what’s really happening on the LAN/WLAN. I live in the CLI, but when it came to discovery and monitoring, I found it limiting. So I built a GUI that brings my favorite tools together in one place. PingStalker started because I wanted to know if something on the network was scanning my machine. I also wanted quick access to core details—external IP, Wi-Fi data, and local topology. Then I wanted more: fast, reliable scans using ARP tables and ICMP. As a Wi-Fi engineer, I couldn’t stop there. I kept adding ways to…

    Nov 2025 · pingstalker.com · its alternatives →

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    Automated internet performance monitoring

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    A free SERP tracking tool to monitor your keywords rankings

    2021 · serpivore.com · its alternatives →

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    Keep your web service alive with Pulse

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    DTEKT▲70

    Website uptime and performance monitoring

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    An open source Next app template to monitor your AI apps

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A docker image with a cronjob running speedtest, audit your internet connection/ISP - igomez10/speedInspectorRPI

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The easy way to track Core Web Vitals & boost pagespeed.

    2024 · requestmetrics.com · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted monitoring with zero per-site scaling fees.

    Jan 2026 · uptime-pulse-10db0120.base44.app · its alternatives →

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