DumbMonitMonitor your homelab from one container.
One container watches servers, network gear, NAS, hypervisors, cloud services and websites. Useful alert rules are on from the start, and they stay quiet until something needs you.
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Why DumbMonit
Everything in one place, nothing to assemble
One container, one minute
A single container with one volume and no extra capability. Open the page, create an account, add a monitor: graphs and alerts follow.
Alerts that stay quiet
Useful rules are on from the start. Dependencies, grouping and learned baselines turn thirty messages into one.
113 monitor types
Switches, firewalls, hypervisors, NAS, websites, databases and self-hosted apps, each read the way its vendor intends.
Teams and clients
Roles, per-folder rights, on-call and escalation. MSP mode keeps each client's sites, alerts and reports apart.
Status pages
Public or private pages for your users and clients, with history, incidents and subscribers.
Open API and GitOps
Every route in OpenAPI, scoped tokens, configuration as YAML, a CLI, a Terraform provider and an MCP server.
How it works
Simple to run, simple to reason about
One process supervises everything. Probes go out, agents call in, and every alert passes through one engine.
Architecture
The path of an alert
Integrations
What can it watch?
Pick a family to see what is watched, the alert rules that come with it and what to prepare on the device.
Servers and hardware
Linux, Windows, macOS and FreeBSD machines through the agent, server hardware through its management controller, UPS units and Active Directory.
7 monitor types
Network equipment
Switches, routers, access points and VPNs: any SNMP device, MikroTik, UniFi, Tailscale and OpenVPN.
11 monitor types
Cloud services
Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, AWS, Cloudflare, Hetzner, OVHcloud and Infomaniak: service health, licences, secrets about to expire, tunnels, servers and alarms.
8 monitor types
Firewalls
OPNsense, pfSense, FortiGate and Sophos: gateways, tunnels, interfaces, high availability and licences.
6 monitor types
Hypervisors and clusters
Proxmox, vSphere, XCP-ng, Nutanix and Kubernetes: hosts, guests, storage and cluster health.
6 monitor types
NAS and backup
Synology, TrueNAS, Unraid, Proxmox Backup Server and Veeam: disks, pools, and the age of the last good backup.
10 monitor types
Websites, certificates and checks
Web pages and APIs, ports, DNS, ping, TLS certificates, time servers, domain expiry, heartbeats and website changes.
15 monitor types
Web servers and reverse proxies
Traefik, Caddy, Nginx, Apache and Nginx Proxy Manager: backends, certificates and error rates.
5 monitor types
Self-hosted applications
Nextcloud, Immich, Paperless-ngx, Jellyfin, Plex, Home Assistant, GitLab and Forgejo.
18 monitor types
DNS, mail and security
Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, CrowdSec, and the mail servers and gateways: SMTP, MDaemon, SecurityGateway and Proxmox Mail Gateway. Blocklist monitors for a mail server or an IP range.
12 monitor types
Databases and observability
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, MQTT, and the VictoriaMetrics, Loki and Graylog servers.
15 monitor types
Who it is for
From a rack at home to the networks of your clients
Homelab
Your own network
Proxmox, a NAS, a firewall, a few self-hosted apps. Add each one by its address and get graphs and alerts without writing a single query.
Small businesses
An IT team of one to ten
Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Windows and Linux servers, switches and backups. Roles, on-call and SLA reports, with no per-device pricing.
MSPs
The networks of your clients
One instance, several clients. A relay agent per site, outbound only, and each client's alerts, reports and status pages kept apart.
In figures
- 113monitor types
- 34notification channels
- 9languages
- 1container to run
- 0 €licence cost, MIT
Docs and community
Built in the open
Code, issues, roadmap and releases are on GitHub. Questions, ideas and device requests go to the discussions.
- Open source, all of it
MIT, dependencies included: CI fails on any dependency that is not under an OSI-approved licence. No feature is held back for a paid edition, because there is none. DumbMonit is 100% free and will stay free.
- Security checks, in the open
The project is graded in public by the OpenSSF. These links open the live results. OpenSSF Best Practices · OpenSSF Scorecard
- Tell us what breaks
A monitor that reads wrong, an alert that woke you for nothing, a page that confused you: each report makes the next release better. Requests for a new kind of monitor are welcome too.
$ mkdir dumbmonit && cd dumbmonit
$ curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laupernoe/dumbmonit/main/docker-compose.yml
$ docker compose up -dThen open http://localhost:8080 and create the first account. Image for amd64 and arm64: ghcr.io/laupernoe/dumbmonit.
DumbMonit is before 1.0 (0.15.0 is the current release). It runs every day on its author's network, but the HTTP API and the database schema can still change between minor versions; the changelog says how to upgrade. Some integrations have only met test instances. Try it, and tell us what breaks.