NetMap answers the four questions every homelab owner asks in four different tools: what is on my network, what address did it get, is it still up, and why is the firewall shouting about it. Devices you add appear automatically on a visual canvas where you can drag them into place, draw the links between them, and group them into VLANs or separate sites, and the layout is still there when you come back. Behind the map, every device is watched continuously: ping times graphed over history, service checks on the ports you care about, a heartbeat strip that betrays intermittent dropouts, and an uptime percentage that settles arguments. Address management stops being a spreadsheet: define subnets, import the leases your router already handed out, see used and free addresses as a grid, and get warned before a duplicate assignment causes a mysterious outage. Firewall logs stream in live and each entry links to the device it concerns, ready to search by address, port, or protocol. When something new appears, a network scan discovers hosts with their names, hardware addresses, and open ports for review before they join the inventory. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Self-hosted and account-free, LAN Sheriff watches where your devices send their traffic, plots each destination on a live world map, and flags anything that looks suspicious. Click a destination on the Watchtower for its country and city, owning organization, reverse DNS, protocol, port, byte counts, duration, and responsible app or device; filter by device, app, country, organization, or protocol, or scrub back through history. Radio Chatter streams the DNS lookups it can see, surfaces first-seen domains, and labels tracker, ad, telemetry, and malware domains without ever blocking them. The Precinct Map diagrams observed traffic, while the Roster inventories every device by IP, MAC, manufacturer, hostname, inferred type, and services, and alerts you when an unrecognized one joins. The Wanted List applies eight rules, including beaconing, machine-generated domains, port scans, plaintext credentials, and volume anomalies, and explains each finding in a plain sentence rather than a mystery score. Deputy Mode needs no privileges and names the application behind each connection, while Patrol Mode adds packet capture for DNS lookups and traffic volumes. Pair installations with a code to widen your view, export any view as CSV or JSON, and send alerts to webhook, ntfy, Discord, or Slack. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Neko Master watches every connection flowing through your Clash, Mihomo, or Surge gateway and turns the stream into a live map of devices, domains, countries, and proxy nodes, so questions that once needed packet captures get answered at a glance. The dashboard refreshes over WebSocket as traffic moves, charting upload and download trends across thirty minutes, one hour, or a full day. Domain views rank every host your network contacts by traffic and connection count, and IP views add ASN and geographic detail, so an unfamiliar endpoint explains itself instead of raising an alarm. Proxy statistics break traffic down per node and per rule, which makes a saturated exit, a misrouted application, or an underused subscription obvious in seconds. One panel watches several gateways at once: add OpenClash backends directly, or install the one-command agent on OpenWrt, Linux, or macOS machines beside remote gateways and let each agent report home. Because agents open the connection outward, gateways behind NAT still report in, and the panel never reaches into your network uninvited. History persists in SQLite by default, and busy networks can dual-write traffic statistics to ClickHouse for larger histories while configuration stays in SQLite. Token-based access control protects the dashboard, dark mode and an installable PWA keep it comfortable on a phone, and the interface switches between English and Chinese. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Every half hour, Netmon speed-tests your internet connection, counts the devices on your local network, and reports to your Telegram or Discord with charts and a sarcastic AI-written verdict. Each cycle measures download, upload, ping, ISP, and test server with a single-connection test that mimics one real download, then scans the subnet to tally phones, laptops, and mystery gadgets. Results land in a local SQLite database, building the trend history behind every report. Every four hours you get the full picture: a 24-hour speed graph plus an AI analysis that notices the evening drop, counts the new devices, and names the likely bandwidth hog in plain language. Between reports, short status alerts keep you posted with a simple all-good or line-is-dying. The AI commentary can run on a cloud model or a local one through Ollama or LM Studio, graphs and alerts convert cleanly between Telegram formatting and Discord embeds, and the whole bot runs unattended as a background service. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Netronome is a self-hosted network monitoring platform that runs scheduled internet speed tests, watches packet loss and DNS resolvers, and reports bandwidth and health data from every server you point it at. Run tests against Speedtest.net, your own iperf3 servers, or public and custom LibreSpeed servers, choosing the exact endpoint from a list sorted with the nearest first. Put tests on a recurring schedule and read the history charts to catch an ISP that sags every evening or a connection that never delivers the speed on the invoice. Install the companion agent on each machine and watch live upload and download rates, traffic by hour, day, and month, processor and memory load, disk space, and temperatures in one place. Trace routes hop by hop, keep packet loss percentages in view, and confirm your DNS resolvers answer fast and return the records you expect. Set thresholds for download and upload speed, ping, packet loss, disk space, CPU, memory, and temperature, and route alerts to Discord, Telegram, Slack, email, ntfy, Gotify, Pushover, or a webhook. The server, the web interface, and the agent ship as one program, and agents connect over HTTP with an optional API key or inside a Tailscale network. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.

Your router calls it "Unknown device" at 192.168.1.23; Vedetta calls it the kitchen light and shows its work. Vedetta is a Home Assistant app that scans your local network, identifies what each device actually is, and explains every identification. One scan lists every device it can find with presence and latency history, in tile or list view, light or dark, on a computer or a phone. Behind each name sits the recognition engine: it weighs many weak clues together, counts a repeated fact once, groups devices by family, and shows certainty honestly, keeping anything doubtful in Other rather than inventing a label. Tap the info marker beside a name, brand, or type and a pop-up lists every clue, its weight, and the hypotheses that were rejected. Names or rooms you set by hand are never overwritten by later scans, and sleeping phones are remembered instead of flickering in and out. Choose from three search levels depending on how hard you want it to probe, let the nightly deep search refresh the picture, and use the network doctor to spot duplicate addresses, repeated restarts, devices that drop together, or a slowing gateway. It can also publish what you choose to Home Assistant and MQTT, display devices from other networks your Home Assistant already sees, and mask exports before they leave the machine. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

MikroTik Manager is a web control plane for whole RouterOS fleets, built so that a bad VLAN change reverts itself instead of costing you a drive to the site. Before any risky edit, Change Guard saves a restore point on the device and arms a scheduler; if a fresh connection cannot reach the router afterwards, it rolls itself back. Lockout prediction simulates each change against live device state and refuses one that would cut management access, naming the exact port and VLAN at fault. Config Health audits for settings RouterOS accepts but silently ignores. Day to day, a live dashboard tracks availability, wireless clients, and alerts delivered by email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, or ntfy. Switch faceplates, per-port client views, VLAN copy wizards, bulk SSID deployment, RF health charts, rogue AP detection, and a guest Wi-Fi captive portal wizard cover the wired and wireless side. A rule builder handles firewall and NAT, topology maps come from LLDP, CDP, and MNDP, and a built-in NetFlow collector attributes traffic to clients and applications. Firmware rolls out in canary waves that halt on failure, and every configuration snapshot supports diffs and one-click rollback. OIDC single sign-on, TOTP two-factor, role-based access, and scoped API tokens protect the console, while sites group devices per customer network. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

VyManager puts every VyOS router you run, across every site, into one web control plane with live dashboards and per-site permissions. Organize instances into logical sites, from the datacenter core to the smallest branch office, and add or remove routers without touching a command line. Live dashboards stream interface counters, system information, network graphs, and WireGuard peer status, so a saturated link announces itself before your users do. Configuration adapts to each router's VyOS version, with 1.4, 1.5, and rolling releases supported side by side during the longest upgrade cycle. Access is granted per site with OWNER, ADMIN, and VIEWER roles, API keys authenticate the machines, and SSH credentials stay encrypted at rest. A setup wizard walks a fresh deployment to its first managed router, and light, dark, and custom themes keep the night shift comfortable. For automation, AI assistants can be connected through the companion MCP integration, and the whole stack arrives as Docker Compose services you can redeploy in minutes. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Before the maintenance window, know exactly where the traffic will go: Topolograph rebuilds your network the way its routing protocols see it and lets you break it safely on screen. Upload one router's LSDB output, from Cisco, Juniper, Arista, FRRouting, MikroTik, and a dozen other vendors, and the whole area's topology appears as an interactive graph, because the protocol already flooded it everywhere. Compute the shortest path between any two routers and see every equal-cost alternative with per-link loads, then fail a link or a node and watch SPF recalculate: which pairs moved to backup, which are left with none, and how the load shifted on every surviving link. Search the graph for prefixes, MAC addresses, or any network element, plan an MPLS TE path against real bandwidth attributes, and compare snapshots from different moments to answer what changed before the incident. Collectors can stream live OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP events over GRE, BGP-LS, or BMP so the timeline replays the network at the moment things broke, and a REST API, Python SDK, and MCP server let your own tooling and AI agents ask the same questions. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Network traffic stops being a mystery once ntopng names the hosts, applications, and protocols behind every flow, live in your browser. To find the host saturating an uplink, open the dashboard, which ranks top talkers, countries, autonomous systems, and protocols beside historical charts. To see what a suspicious host is contacting, open its page for traffic, ports, DNS queries, TLS details, and visited sites, plus a map of its conversations. Deep packet inspection recognizes applications such as Facebook, YouTube, and BitTorrent, so charts name the app behind the bytes instead of relying on port numbers alone. The console reads packets from a SPAN port or TAP and NetFlow, sFlow, or IPFIX records from routers and switches through nProbe, so it can cover a single switch or many remote sites. Behavioural checks raise alerts for flows, hosts, and interfaces and send them to email, Discord, Telegram, or webhooks. Active monitoring probes remote hosts over ICMP and HTTP/S, and network discovery lists the devices on your local network. A REST API and Lua scripting pull statistics into your own tools and add custom checks. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Point your routers at Akvorado and every NetFlow, IPFIX, and sFlow record crossing your network becomes a chart you can interrogate. The web console opens on a live summary of flows per second, exporter count, and traffic split by autonomous system, port, protocol, country, and address family. From there, the visualize page turns stored flows into stacked, line, grid, and heatmap time series, plus Sankey diagrams that show how traffic moves between networks, interfaces, and countries. Filters use a simple SQL-like syntax, so a question like which customers pulled traffic over a transit link last night becomes a query, not a support ticket to your future self. Because the outlet polls each exporter with SNMP or gNMI, flows arrive wearing real interface names, descriptions, and speeds instead of raw ifIndex numbers nobody can read. GeoIP lookups attach country and city to addresses, classification rules tag providers, peers, and connectivity types, and optional BMP sessions add AS paths and BGP communities to every flow. Retention is tiered: raw flows keep full detail for recent days while one-minute, five-minute, and hourly rollups stretch summaries across a year of history. A Grafana plugin is available too, so the same flow data can sit on the dashboards your team already watches. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Monitoring everything from network switches to Kubernetes clusters since 2001 with over 6,200 GitHub stars and deployments exceeding 100,000 devices per installation, Zabbix has established itself as one of the most mature and feature-rich open-source monitoring platforms available, trusted by organizations including Dell, Salesforce, ICANN, and T-Mobile. The platform collects metrics from virtually any source using Zabbix Agent written in C, Zabbix Agent 2 written in Go with native plugin support, SNMP v1/v2c/v3 polling and trapping, IPMI for hardware health, JMX for Java applications, SSH and Telnet checks, HTTP/HTTPS polling, and ODBC database queries. Version 7.0 LTS introduced synthetic browser monitoring that executes user-defined JavaScript via WebDriver to simulate multi-step user interactions on websites, proxy load balancing with automatic host redistribution across proxy groups for high availability, in-memory proxy data buffering delivering up to 100x performance improvement, native multi-factor authentication with TOTP and Duo support, and just-in-time user provisioning from SAML and LDAP. Low-level discovery automatically detects file systems, network interfaces, SNMP OIDs, VMware resources, and Kubernetes pods, creating monitoring items and triggers dynamically. The alerting engine correlates events with configurable escalation chains, sending notifications through Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Jira, email, and SMS with customizable message templates. Over 1,000 official templates provide instant monitoring for Linux, Windows, VMware, AWS, Azure, Docker, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache, Nginx, and hundreds more. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

The de facto dashboard of observability: Grafana is the open-source frontend that turns the data stores you already run into interactive graphs. It does not store metrics itself; it connects to the data stores you already run and turns their contents into interactive dashboards. Supported sources number over 150 via plugins: Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Monitoring, and many more. Dashboards are built from a large library of panel types (time series, heatmaps, tables, gauges, logs) with template variables for reusable, parameterized views. Unified alerting evaluates rules against any connected data source, not just Prometheus, and routes notifications to Slack, PagerDuty, email, and other channels with grouping and silencing - unlike Prometheus Alertmanager, a single rule can combine a Loki log pattern, a PostgreSQL query result, and a CloudWatch metric. Dashboards serialize to JSON and data sources configure via provisioning files, so the entire observability setup can live in Git and deploy repeatably across environments. Explore mode adds ad-hoc querying outside dashboards, with split view for correlating a metric spike against the matching log lines, and access control spans organizations, teams, folder permissions, and OAuth, LDAP, and SAML integration. Written in Go and TypeScript, AGPL-licensed. Self-hosting gives you unlimited users, dashboards, and queries at flat hosting cost, without Grafana Cloud's usage-based pricing.

Trusted by millions of engineers and deployed on over 80,000 GitHub stars worth of community confidence, Netdata delivers true real-time monitoring at per-second granularity — 10-60x faster than Prometheus, Datadog, or any conventional monitoring stack that averages away the transient anomalies lasting 2-10 seconds where most production incidents originate. A single installation command deploys the agent with zero configuration, automatically discovering every running process, container, systemd service, network connection, disk, and application on the host within seconds. Unsupervised machine learning trains multiple models per metric directly at the edge, detecting anomalies without thresholds, baselines, or manual tuning. The distributed Parent-Child architecture scales horizontally from a single Raspberry Pi to fleets exceeding 100,000 nodes while maintaining sub-2-second visualization latency and storing metrics at approximately 0.5 bytes per sample through tiered compression. Native network monitoring provides live topology maps, NetFlow and sFlow analytics, SNMP device polling across 200+ profiles, and trap handling — capabilities that typically require a separate NPM product. Hundreds of pre-configured alerts cover systems and applications out of the box, with AI-powered root cause analysis surfacing correlated metrics through natural language via MCP-compatible AI assistants. The agent supports Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Kubernetes, and Docker with eBPF-based kernel observability requiring no application instrumentation. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL v3+ licensed.

HomeLabInfo gives your homelab one dashboard where the network itself and everything running on it finally appear together, instead of scattered across router pages and terminal sessions. It watches for new devices the instant they ask the network for an address, identifies who made them, and can fire a webhook so you hear about a stranger joining your LAN before you notice it yourself. Scans keep track of which devices are online and which have gone quiet, and the interactive topology view lets you arrange the map of switches, access points, NAS boxes, and servers the way your rack actually looks. Lightweight agents installed on each machine report their containers back to the hub, so running and stopped containers, uptime, health, and host CPU, memory, and disk all show in one place without opening a separate tool per server. When an agent falls behind, its card tells you a newer version exists instead of leaving you guessing. You can add a username and password login before putting the dashboard anywhere beyond your desk, and arrange container layouts that stay put between visits. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Mapping every physical server, virtual machine, container, and network link across a sprawling homelab into a live interactive canvas, Circuit Breaker gives infrastructure operators real-time topology visualization, IP address management, and rack elevation modeling on a single screen. Operators can switch between hierarchical, concentric, cortex ring, radial, and force-directed graph layouts where animated edges reflect link speeds and color-coded status rings display live hardware health. Automated discovery scans local subnets using nmap, SNMP, and ARP while querying Proxmox VE clusters, TrueNAS storage pools, and UniFi controllers, staging newly detected nodes in a review queue before adding them to the map. For multi-site labs or isolated VLANs, lightweight remote agents connect outbound over Noise-encrypted links after fingerprint approval to report host telemetry and run scoped network scans without opening inbound firewall ports. Rack diagrams let administrators drag servers into U slots with cabling overlays using a built-in catalog covering Dell, HPE, Supermicro, Ubiquiti, MikroTik, Synology, and APC gear alongside live iDRAC, iLO, and UPS metrics. Role-based access control, OIDC single sign-on, TOTP multi-factor authentication, encrypted full-state snapshots, and a SHA-256 hash-chained audit log keep multi-user operations accountable. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Spreadsheets and sticky notes stop scaling the day your network grows past a rack or two, so JT-IPAM keeps every address, subnet, and device in one searchable system of record. Track subnets and individual IPs with their hostnames, MAC addresses, and owners, then reconcile what you documented against what scan agents actually find through ICMP, ARP, reverse DNS, and SNMP collection from routers and switches. Connect the DNS servers you already run, from PowerDNS and BIND 9 to Windows DNS and Technitium, and flag records that have no matching address in IPAM. Pull devices and virtual machines in from LibreNMS, Zabbix, Proxmox VE, ESXi, Hyper-V, and OpenStack so monitoring and address records stop drifting apart. Draw floor plans and rack elevations, trace a cable across multiple hops, and open an SSH terminal, SFTP browser, or RDP desktop to a device straight from its address page. Route new address requests through configurable multi-stage approval workflows, distribute certificates to web servers and firewalls from central encrypted storage, and keep a full audit trail of every change and console session. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

From the first rack to the last circuit, Nautobot is the open-source network source of truth that records what your network should look like and runs automation against it. Built-in models cover locations, racks, devices, interfaces, cables, VLANs, VRFs, IP prefixes, circuits, and contacts, so one searchable record replaces the spreadsheet and the wiki. Teams encode their own standards with custom fields, user-defined relationships, computed fields, and validation rules. Config contexts attach JSON or YAML data, such as syslog servers, to devices by location, role, platform, or tag. Jobs run your own automation code from the web UI, REST API, or command line, on a schedule, or through hooks when an object changes, with approvals and logs built in. Query the data over REST or GraphQL, and let the GraphiQL editor autocomplete a device and interface query you can save inside Nautobot. When an object is created, updated, or deleted, webhooks notify outside systems, with Jinja2-templated bodies and HMAC SHA-512 signatures. Git repositories can carry export templates, Jobs, and config contexts too, so YAML data and Jinja2 templates get pull request review before Nautobot syncs them. Open-source Apps add Golden Configuration for config backup, compliance, and remediation, Device Lifecycle for hardware tracking, SSoT for syncing other systems, and ChatOps. Object permissions and change logging keep a shared instance auditable. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Komari turns a scattered fleet of VPS boxes into one clean status wall that shows which servers are alive, struggling, or about to expire. Every node reports CPU, GPU, memory, swap, disk, load, network speed, traffic totals, and uptime to a real-time dashboard, with history views from ten minutes to thirty days or any custom range. Flip between a card grid and a table, search by name, region, or operating system, and tag each machine with its price, billing cycle, and days until renewal. Latency tasks send ICMP, TCP, or HTTP probes and plot the results in per-node charts. Offline alerts wait out a per-node grace period before firing, expiry reminders warn before a plan lapses, and Webhook and custom JavaScript channels deliver them. A multi-tab browser terminal that reattaches after disconnects, remote command execution, and a remote file manager with an editor let you fix problems without leaving the panel. Agents install with a script, a binary, Docker, or an auto-discovery key for batch rollouts, and administrators can switch an agent's version remotely. Plugins run on an embedded JavaScript runtime and can add scheduled jobs, HTTP hooks, static pages, and notification channels. Administrators can add two-factor authentication, OAuth sign-in, API keys for a JSON-RPC 2.0 endpoint, themes from a theme market, and backups. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Every service you run, behind one polished start page: Dashy is the most customizable homelab dashboard, built as a Vue.js homepage. Configuration lives in a single YAML file, but you never have to hand-edit it: an integrated UI editor with real-time validation writes changes back to disk, so both config-as-code and point-and-click camps are served. Status indicators put a live health dot next to every app - HTTP checks or pings on custom intervals, with response time and status details on hover - giving you an at-a-glance uptime overview before anything breaks. Over 50 built-in widgets pull dynamic content from the services you already run: Pi-hole and AdGuard block stats, Proxmox lists, Nextcloud status, Netdata CPU/memory history, Prometheus data, plus weather, RSS, crypto prices, and generic iframe/API-response widgets for anything with an endpoint. Instant fuzzy search launches any app as you type, with customizable hotkeys and web-search fallthrough. Theming is deep: dozens of built-in themes, a UI color palette editor, and custom CSS over CSS variables. Alternate views include a fast-loading minimal startpage and a workspace view that embeds apps side-by-side without leaving the dashboard. Icons resolve from Font Awesome, homelab icon packs, emojis, or auto-fetched favicons. Built-in authentication, multi-page support, cloud backup/sync, and multi-language round out an MIT project with a massive community.