Open Source Infrastructure & Operations Tools

A curated collection of the best free and open source software for running servers and services, covering databases, monitoring, networking, storage and orchestration.

Netbird

WireGuard-based overlay network with centralized access control, connecting machines peer to peer without open ports or VPN gateways.

Alternative to:

Cloudflare One

Zero Trust networking with WireGuard-based secure connectivity

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30,275
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1,788
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InfluxDB

Time series database for real-time events and monitoring, built on Apache Arrow, DataFusion and Parquet for quick queries.

Alternative to:

Amazon Timestream

Purpose-built time series database for real-time systems

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31,786

TDengine

Time series database for IoT, connected cars and industrial sensor fleets, built for high cardinality ingestion at terabyte scale.

Alternative to:

Amazon Timestream

Time-series database and historian for industrial data

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25,176

Pangolin

Self-hostable SASE platform built on WireGuard that unites a zero trust VPN, reverse proxy and identity aware AI gateway.

Alternative to:

Cloudflare One

Zero trust network access that's better than VPN

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23,255

OpenObserve

A single-binary observability platform for logs, metrics, traces and RUM, aimed at teams priced out of Datadog or Elasticsearch.

Alternative to:

Datadog

Petabyte-scale observability, without the massive bill.

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22,532

Prefect

Python workflow orchestration for data teams who need a script to become a scheduled, retrying, observable production pipeline.

Alternative to:

AWS Step Functions

Python-native workflow orchestration for data and ML teams

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24,087

Typesense

A typo-tolerant search engine in a single binary, for developers who want fast search without running an Elasticsearch cluster.

Alternative to:

Pinecone

Lightning-fast, typo-tolerant search engine for all

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27,058

Pulumi

Infrastructure as code in general purpose languages, for teams that would rather write TypeScript, Python or Go than YAML.

Alternative to:

HCP Terraform

Infrastructure as code in your favorite language

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25,824

Temporal

A durable execution platform whose server keeps application workflows running through failures, for developers building long-lived, reliable processes.

Alternative to:

AWS Step Functions

Build resilient applications with durable execution workflows

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24,029

Neon Postgres

Serverless Postgres that separates storage from compute, giving stateless database nodes and branchable data for development teams.

Alternative to:

Amazon Aurora

Serverless Postgres for modern applications

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23,268

Vector

Observability pipeline that collects, transforms and routes logs and metrics from any source to any vendor, for platform and infrastructure teams.

Alternative to:

Cribl Stream

Collect, transform, and route logs and metrics in one tool

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22,777

Beekeeper Studio

Cross-platform SQL editor and database manager for Linux, Mac and Windows, aimed at developers who want a fast, uncluttered client.

Alternative to:

DataGrip

Modern and intuitive SQL client for multiple databases

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23,803

TimescaleDb

PostgreSQL extension for real-time analytics on time-series and event data, for teams that want speed without leaving Postgres.

Alternative to:

Amazon Timestream

Time-series database built on top of PostgreSQL

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23,766

Ceph

Scalable distributed storage system built around RADOS, with block devices and a gateway, for operators and developers running storage clusters.

Alternative to:

Amazon S3

Scalable open-source distributed storage system

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17,175

Trigger

TypeScript platform for long-running background tasks and AI workflows, with retries, queues and observability, cloud or self-hosted.

Alternative to:

AWS Step Functions

Run long-running AI tasks without timeouts or servers

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16,635

VictoriaMetrics

Time series database and Prometheus replacement for teams storing large volumes of metrics without the memory and disk cost.

Alternative to:

Datadog

High-performance time series database for metrics and logs

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17,926

OpenSearch

An enterprise-grade search and observability suite that brings order to unstructured data at scale, for teams running their own search infrastructure.

Alternative to:

Splunk

Open-source search and analytics at enterprise scale

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13,917

AITable

A visual database and spreadsheet with a full REST API, for teams replacing scattered trackers with one collaborative source of records.

Alternative to:

Coda

Visual database for workflow automation across apps

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15,652

QuestDB

A time-series database on open formats that ingests millions of events per second and keeps years of history queryable in one SQL engine.

Alternative to:

Amazon Timestream

High-performance time-series database for massive data scale

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17,477

Logstash

A server-side pipeline that ingests data from many sources at once, transforms it and ships it wherever your logs and events need to land.

Alternative to:

Splunk

Centralize, transform, and stash your data

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14,970

Weaviate

A vector database that stores objects and their embeddings together, for teams building semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation and recommendations.

Alternative to:

Pinecone

AI-native vector database for intuitive applications

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16,924

Apache Druid

A real-time analytics database for fast ingestion and sub-second queries, suited to interactive dashboards and high-concurrency operational analytics.

Alternative to:

Azure Data Explorer

Real-time analytics database for sub-second OLAP queries

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14,096

Bytebase

Database governance for teams and AI agents, putting schema change, access control and compliance behind one reviewed workflow.

Alternative to:

DataGrip

Secure and streamline database changes with CI/CD automation

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14,649

OpenVPN

The community source tree for the OpenVPN tunneling daemon, aimed at administrators who build and run their own secure tunnels.

Alternative to:

Cloudflare One

Zero Trust VPN solutions for secure business networking

Stars
14,737

Keep

An AIOps and alert management platform that deduplicates, correlates and automates alerts from every monitoring tool in one console.

Alternative to:

PagerDuty

Unify, automate, and elevate your monitoring workflow

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12,452

AutoMQ

A stateless Kafka alternative that keeps data on S3, aimed at teams paying too much to run Kafka in the cloud.

Alternative to:

Confluent Cloud

S3-based serverless Kafka reinvented for cost efficiency

Stars
10,921

Cachet

An open source status page system you host yourself, for teams that publish incidents and service health from infrastructure they control.

Alternative to:

Better Stack

Professional status page system for transparent downtime communication

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15,259

Filestash

A web file manager speaking FTP, SFTP, S3, SMB, WebDAV and around twenty more protocols, for anyone with storage scattered across systems.

Alternative to:

Dropbox

Unified file management for your enterprise storage

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14,832

Checkmate

A self-hosted uptime and infrastructure monitor with status pages and incident alerts, for teams watching servers they run themselves.

Alternative to:

UptimeRobot

Beautiful open-source monitoring for modern infrastructure

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10,998

OpenReplay

Self-hosted session replay suite that shows developers what users did on a web app and what broke underneath.

Alternative to:

Hotjar

Self-hosted session replay with complete data control

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13,057

OceanBase

A distributed relational database with MySQL compatibility, built for clusters that must scale to petabytes without losing availability.

Alternative to:

Amazon Aurora

High-performance distributed database for all workloads

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10,356

Gatus

A developer-oriented health dashboard that runs HTTP, ICMP, TCP and DNS checks against your services and alerts before users notice.

Alternative to:

UptimeRobot

Advanced automated status page for real-time monitoring

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12,428

Instant

A realtime database you query from the client, giving app developers auth, permissions, storage, presence and offline caching out of the box.

Alternative to:

Firebase

Realtime client-side database for collaborative apps

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10,561

Quickwit

A search engine built for observability, running sub-second full-text search over logs and traces stored on cloud object storage.

Alternative to:

Datadog

Lightning-fast search for massive datasets

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11,746

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Open Source Infrastructure & Operations Tools

A curated collection of the best free and open source software for running servers and services, covering databases, monitoring, networking, storage and orchestration.

Netbird

InfluxDB

TDengine

Pangolin

OpenObserve

Prefect

Typesense

Pulumi

Temporal

Neon Postgres

Vector

Beekeeper Studio

TimescaleDb

Ceph

Trigger

VictoriaMetrics

OpenSearch

AITable

QuestDB

Logstash

Weaviate

Apache Druid

Bytebase

OpenVPN

Keep

AutoMQ

Cachet

Filestash

Checkmate

OpenReplay

OceanBase

Gatus

Instant

Quickwit

Netbird

InfluxDB

TDengine

Pangolin

OpenObserve

Prefect

Typesense

Pulumi

Temporal

Neon Postgres

Vector

Beekeeper Studio

TimescaleDb

Ceph

Trigger

VictoriaMetrics

OpenSearch

AITable

QuestDB

Logstash

Weaviate

Apache Druid

Bytebase

OpenVPN

Keep

AutoMQ

Cachet

Filestash

Checkmate

OpenReplay

OceanBase

Gatus

Instant

Quickwit

Turso