Awesome Sysadmin

Discover amazing sysadmin Applications

A curated list of amazingly awesome Free and Open-Source sysadmin resources. This is a list of Free Software for System administrator tasks. Consider donating to the FLOSS projects you use regularly.
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Most Popular Applications

Highly-starred applications loved by the community

Modern, self-hosted monitoring tool with a clean UI and rich...

Monitoring & Status Pages

Grafana

77.8k

A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor

Metrics & Metric Collection

Ansible

71.3k

Provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment...

Configuration Management

Service monitoring system and time series database

Monitoring & Status Pages

Coolify

65.9k

An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify alternative (and even...

PaaS

Git

64.2k

Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an...

Version control

rclone

60.9k

Command-line program to sync files and directories to and from...

etcd

52.7k

Distributed K/V-Store, authenticating via SSL PKI and a REST HTTP Api...

Service Discovery

Recently Updated

Applications with recent development activity

Web-based interface for system administration for Unix

Updated November 10, 2026

An identity and context aware access-proxy inspired by BeyondCorp

Updated November 10, 2026

A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor

Updated November 10, 2026

A comprehensive solution for monitoring and managing your online...

Updated November 10, 2026

Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool

Updated November 10, 2026

Comprehensive solution for monitoring of applications, servers, and...

Updated November 10, 2026

WireGuard based VPN Server and Firewall

Updated November 10, 2026

Lightweight, chroot-like, environment to run an OS or command...

Updated November 10, 2026

Hidden Gems

Quality applications you might have missed

Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance...

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Reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally

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Wazuh

17.6k

Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads

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Industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system...

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Micro

29.9k

A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

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WireGuard based VPN Server and Firewall

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Statistics

Deep dive into the Awesome Sysadmin ecosystem

18
Apps with Demos
~6% of catalog
295
New in 2026
~100% added this year
219
Actively Maintained
~74% updated in 6mo
200
Tagged Releases
~68% publish releases

External links

Communities / Forums

Repositories

*Software package repositories.*

  • AlternativeTo - Find alternatives to software you know and discover new software.
  • deb.sury.org - Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
  • ElRepo - Community Repo for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, etc).
  • EPEL - Repository for RHEL and compatibles (CentOS, Scientific Linux).
  • IUS - Community project that provides RPM packages for newer versions of select software for Enterprise Linux distributions.
  • Remi - Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora.

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License

This list is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Terms of the license are summarized here. The list of authors can be found in the AUTHORS file.