Alternatives to dashdot

A self-hosted web dashboard showing live CPU, memory, storage and network stats for a server. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

The original

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as dashdot.

  • beszel

    Track server health through a lightweight web dashboard.

    Beszel is a lightweight web dashboard that keeps metric history and monitors Docker containers, but needs a hub plus agents on each monitored system.

  • Glances

    A cross-platform system monitor that runs in a terminal, in a browser, or as an API feeding a dashboard.

    Glances offers a built-in web interface plus a terminal view and APIs, can export history to InfluxDB, and installs through Python and pip.

  • Netdata

    Per-second metrics for a machine with no configuration, and charts that appear the moment you install it.

    Netdata gives per-second metrics with auto-discovered service charts and alarms, using more memory and disk, with a paid cloud for long multi-machine retention.

  • Nezha

    Self-hosted, lightweight dashboard for monitoring servers and websites, with agents and alerts.

    Nezha is a self-hosted dashboard with agents that adds HTTP, TCP, ping and SSL expiry checks with alerts, though much community documentation is in Chinese.

  • Monitorix

    Lightweight self-hosted tool that graphs Linux and BSD server resources and services in a browser.

    Monitorix graphs resource history for a single Linux or BSD server with its own built-in web server, using a more dated graph interface.

  • Pulse

    A self-hosted monitoring dashboard for Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS and vSphere with alerting.

    Pulse is a self-hosted dashboard for Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS and vSphere with alerting, aimed at home labs mixing containers and VMs.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.