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Beszel

Lightweight server monitoring with Docker stats, history, and alerts

  • Servers and infrastructure
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What it is

Beszel watches CPU, memory, disk, network, and temperature across your servers from one web dashboard. A small agent runs on each machine and reports to a central hub. It is aimed at home labs and small fleets that find bigger monitoring stacks too much work.

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26,363 GitHub stars.
26,363

Forks
1,103
Commits
1,815
Contributors
176
Language
Go
License
MIT
Last commit
Oct 19, 2026
On GitHub since
July 2024
First release
July 2024
Platforms
web, macOS, Windows, Linux, self-hosted
Self-hostable
Yes
Alternative to
Datadog, New Relic
Author
hank
Tags
  • notifications
  • containers
  • system-monitor
  • monitoring
  • dashboard

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What people are saying

Updated Oct 21, 2026
  • Hacker NewsBeszel: Lightweight server monitoring hub with historical data, Docker statsJan 18, 2026 · 7 points · 1 comment (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“I installed Beszel so that I can see some metrics of my server beszel.dev I used @tailscale.com so that I can access Beszel and the PDS easily and safely from…”Aug 20, 2025 · 6 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“I love beszel, being able to see the usage/status of all my servers (windows, mac and linux) at a blink of an eye is nice. 👉 beszel.dev”Feb 9, 2026 · 4 likes · 2 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Just deployed Beszel for server monitoring. It’s a minimalist alternative to Netdata. - Lightweight: Tiny resource footprint (~6MB RAM). - UI/UX First…”Feb 15, 2026 · 5 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“I needed monitoring and graphs for the few servers I run, so I installed Beszel and I couldn't be happier. Very easy to set up, not as heavy and AI infested…”Oct 6, 2026 · 1 like · 2 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“i really like beszel.dev to remotely see utilization”Dec 1, 2025 · 2 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Beszel is a lightweight, self-hosted monitoring hub for homelabs and small infrastructure. It collects CPU, memory, disk, network, and Docker stats into a…”Apr 22, 2026 · 2 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“I came across this project yesterday. It has an easy install for the beszel-hub on Truenas Scale. I did that took less than 10 minutes. Adding clients (other…”Oct 17, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“And, boom, with that, all my servers and VPSs are monitored (25 total, with 3 hubs). Thank you, henrygd - - for Beszel - !”Aug 27, 2025 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“beszel #devops”Aug 13, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Open-source and free apps for coders kinetics.colorion.co - Open-source CSS/React motion effects zrok.io - open-source secure local sharing/tunnels beszel.dev…”Jul 22, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Shoutout to all the #blind #sysadmin's out there: Here is a lightweight, reasonably accessible application for server monitoring. (There are no data tables…”Feb 10, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“@Viss If you don't want to customise things, I've been finding both lightweight and "good enough" for host monitoring. It's actively developed, so keeps…”Jan 17, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Was it you, @stephen, who mentioned #Beszel ( as a monitoring solution? Thanks if so (if not, hope to thank whoever it was)! Seems to be a perfect fit for the…”Aug 26, 2025 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Beszel.dev - easier alternative to Grafana. A lightweight & simple server monitoring tool. ⋅ Super easy setup ⋅ Docker/Podman containers stats ⋅ Alerts for…”Mar 26, 2025 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)