best-of ranking · updated nightly
Best Open Source Infrastructure & Operations Tools
Ranked by GitHub stars — actual adoption, not editorial taste. All 10 are free, open source and self-hostable; license and last activity on every entry.
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- 2 Uptime Kuma ★ 91K
Self-hosted uptime monitoring with a clean dashboard
- 3 worldmonitor ★ 87K
Real-time global intelligence dashboard. AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness in
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- 6 Elasticsearch ★ 78K
The leading distributed search and analytics engine
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- 8 Prometheus ★ 66K
Open source metrics collection, storage, and alerting
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last updated nightly · ranking method: github stars, live-tracked
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best open source Infrastructure & Operations tool in 2026?
Immich leads the ranking with 114,457 GitHub stars, ahead of Uptime Kuma. Rankings use live GitHub star counts, refreshed nightly.
How is this list of Infrastructure & Operations tools ranked?
By GitHub stars — a proxy for adoption and community size. Each entry also shows its licence, primary language and last commit date, so you can judge maintenance activity rather than trusting the ranking alone.
Are the best Infrastructure & Operations tools free?
Every project on this list is open source and free to self-host. Some also offer paid managed hosting, but the software itself carries no licence fee.