Gatus
★ 12.7kA self-hosted alternative to Datadog
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Gatus is a developer-oriented health dashboard designed to monitor services through active health checks rather than passive traffic-based metrics. It is aimed at operators who want to detect...
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Features
- health checks
- HTTP monitoring
- ICMP monitoring
- TCP monitoring
- DNS monitoring
- condition-based evaluation
- alerting integrations
- metrics
- badges
- user acceptance tests
Details
- Last Updated
- Nov 11, 2026
- Created
- Sep 4, 2019
- Install Methods
- dockerhelmsourcebinary
- Requirements
- Go
- Default Port
- 8080web UI
- Authentication
- localoidc-sso
- API
- REST
- Runtime / Stack
- DockerK8S
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: OptionalOffline Capable
- Theming
- Dark mode
- Deployment
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