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mikaku/Monitorix

Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/mikaku/Monitorix · homepage · Perl · GPL-2.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

63/100

  • Activity 89
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 5063
  • days_rel: 644
  • days_push: 71
  • n_releases_24m: 1

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1209 stars · 169 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Monitorix is a free, open-source, lightweight system monitoring tool written in Perl that tracks system resources and network services, presenting metrics through a built-in web interface with graphs. It is designed to run on Linux/Unix servers with minimal overhead.

Use cases

  • monitor cpu, memory, and disk usage on a linux server
  • track network traffic and services on a small vps
  • keep an eye on system health of a home server
  • graph historical system resource usage over time
  • monitor temperatures, filesystems, and mail services
  • lightweight alternative to heavy monitoring stacks for a single host

When to choose

  • you need a lightweight, self-contained monitoring tool for a single Linux/Unix server
  • you want built-in web graphs without deploying a full monitoring stack
  • you run low-resource hardware or embedded systems and need minimal overhead

When to avoid

  • you need distributed monitoring across many hosts with centralized aggregation
  • you require advanced alerting, dashboards, or integrations offered by Prometheus or Zabbix
  • you prefer modern tooling over a Perl-based application

Facets

application · maturity active

monitoring alerting charts monitoring self-hosted self-hosted cli system-monitoring perl lightweight server-monitoring resource-monitoring web-dashboard unix devops command-line linux web-server

1 source

Member repositories

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