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Same lightweight monitoring, without running your own hub. Status pages and incident management included.
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Quick Comparison
| Feature | Beszel | FiveNines |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted hub + agent | Fully managed |
| Built-in status pages | ||
| Incident management | ||
| Cron job monitoring | ||
| Proxmox VM monitoring | ||
| GPU monitoring | ||
| Starting price | Free (self-hosted) | Free / $0.5/node/mo |
No hub to babysit
Beszel requires you to run and maintain a hub server. If the hub goes down, you lose visibility. FiveNines is managed - install the agent, done.
Status pages built in
Share uptime with your users on a public status page. No need to bolt on a separate tool like Upptime or Cachet alongside your monitoring.
Incident tracking
When something breaks, track it from alert to resolution. Timeline, updates, postmortems - all in one place instead of scattered across Slack threads.
When Beszel might be a better fit
If you're running a homelab and want full control over your monitoring data with zero cost, Beszel is a decent option. It covers basic server metrics and Docker stats. FiveNines is the better choice when you need a managed service with status pages, incident management, Proxmox and QEMU VM monitoring, and don't want to maintain monitoring infrastructure on top of the infrastructure you're already monitoring.
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