Monitoring
Jul 12, 2026
UptimeRobot: Website Monitoring for Pocket Change
UptimeRobot has been on the market since 2010 and has become the de facto standard for basic monitoring. The service …
Jul 12, 2026
Plausible vs Matomo: Which Self-Hosted Analytics Is Better in 2026
Plausible and Matomo are the two flagships of privacy-first analytics. Both are open source, both are self-hosted, both …
Jul 12, 2026
Plausible Analytics: Analytics Without Tracking or GDPR Headaches
Google Analytics has worn everyone out: cookie banners, GDPR fines, slow scripts, and numbers that make no sense. …
Jul 12, 2026
Cronitor: Cron Job Monitoring Without the Headache
If you have cron jobs — and you do if you work with servers — you know the feeling: a backup failed at 3 AM, and you …
Jul 12, 2026
Better Stack: Observability for Those Tired of Datadog
The observability market has long been carved up between Datadog (expensive), Grafana (complex), and New Relic …
Jul 10, 2026
Self-Hosted Monitoring: Building a Stack from Open-Source Tools
You need to keep an eye on your servers, services, and websites. But paying Datadog $15 per host per month is painful, …