Alternatives to Cockpit
Browser-based administration console for Linux servers. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Cockpit
Browser-based administration console for Linux servers.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Cockpit.
Tactical RMM
A self-hosted remote monitoring and management tool with agents for Windows, Linux and macOS.
Tactical RMM manages Windows, Linux and macOS machines as a fleet with remote shell, scripts and patching, but it is source-available rather than open source.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Netdata
Per-second metrics for a machine with no configuration, and charts that appear the moment you install it.
Glances
A cross-platform system monitor that runs in a terminal, in a browser, or as an API feeding a dashboard.
beszel
Track server health through a lightweight web dashboard.
htop
Interactive process viewer for the terminal.
btop++
A terminal resource monitor that looks good enough to leave open, with processes, CPU, memory, disks, network and GPUs.
Monitorix
Lightweight self-hosted tool that graphs Linux and BSD server resources and services in a browser.
