Beszel
| License | FOSS problems | Maintenance | SSO | Users | Tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MITPermissive license. Preserve the copyright notice. Applies only to the covered code — your surrounding project can stay under any license. | — | Active | ❌ | Unlimited | ✅ |
Description
Beszel is a lightweight server and container monitoring panel. It shows CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics across one or more servers, with Docker container stats and basic alerting. The hub runs as a single container; each monitored server runs a small agent.
Features
- Multi-server metrics — CPU, memory, disk, and network across one or more servers from a single hub.
- Docker container stats — per-container resource usage, not just host-level totals.
- Basic alerting — email notifications when a system goes down or a metric threshold is crossed.
Usage patterns
- At-a-glance stack health — sees the health of the whole stack without the operational weight of a full observability platform like Grafana + Prometheus. Without monitoring at all, a disk filling up or a service leaking memory goes unnoticed until something breaks.
- Not for deep observability — no log aggregation, no traces, no complex alerting rules. If slow query logs, error rates by service, or structured log search are needed, a heavier stack is required.
License and governance
MIT — permissive, no restrictions on self-hosting or modification.
Conclusion
Why you would — self-hosted infrastructure needs visibility, and Beszel covers the basics — CPU, memory, disk, network, container stats — at a glance, without the operational weight of a full observability platform.
Why you wouldn't — it's a lightweight tool by design: no log aggregation, no traces, no complex alerting rules. For a small self-hosted setup it's usually enough, but deeper observability needs a heavier stack. See Setup for the actual deploy steps.