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.

1. 1
   kubernetes ★ 129K

   Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

   Apache-2.0 Go pushed 2026-11-02 details →
2. 2
   Immich ★ 118K

   Self-hosted photo and video backup for your own server

   AGPL-3.0 TypeScript pushed 2026-11-02 details →
3. 3
   frp ★ 110K

   A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.

   Apache-2.0 Go pushed 2026-11-02 details →
4. 4
   Uptime Kuma ★ 93K

   Self-hosted uptime monitoring with a clean dashboard

   MIT JavaScript pushed 2026-11-02 details →
5. 5
   worldmonitor ★ 90K

   Real-time global intelligence dashboard. AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness in

   AGPL-3.0 TypeScript pushed 2026-11-02 details →
6. 6
   mall ★ 85K

   mall项目是一套电商系统，包括前台商城系统及后台管理系统，基于Spring Boot+MyBatis实现，采用Docker容器化部署。 前台商城系统包含首页门户、商品推荐、商品搜索、商品展示、购物车、订单流程、会员中心、客户服务、帮助中心等模块。 后台管理系统包含商品管理、订单管理、会员管理、促销管理、运营管理、内容

   Apache-2.0 Java pushed 2026-09-15 details →
7. 7
   NetData ★ 81K

   Real-time monitoring for systems and applications

   GPL-3.0 Go pushed 2026-11-02 details →
8. 8
   caddy ★ 79K

   Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

   Apache-2.0 Go pushed 2026-11-02 details →
9. 9
   Elasticsearch ★ 78K

   The leading distributed search and analytics engine

   NOASSERTION Java pushed 2026-11-02 details →
10. 10
    Grafana ★ 78K

    Unified observability for metrics, logs, traces, and more

    AGPL-3.0 TypeScript pushed 2026-11-02 details →

last updated nightly · ranking method: github stars, live-tracked

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