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 network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own server(s).
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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

73.6k

A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor

Metrics & Metric Collection

Ansible

68.5k

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

Configuration Management

LocalStack is a fully functional local AWS cloud stack. This includes...

PaaS

Service monitoring system and time series database

Monitoring & Status Pages

Git

60.8k

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

Version control

rclone

57.1k

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

Coolify

54.7k

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

PaaS

Recently Updated

Applications with recent development activity

Java message broker

Updated May 09, 2026

The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps

Updated May 09, 2026

Flexible identity provider with support for different protocols....

Updated May 09, 2026

A fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system. Used by...

Updated May 09, 2026

Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool

Updated May 09, 2026

Distributed object, block, and file storage platform

Updated May 09, 2026

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

Updated May 09, 2026

A.K.A. [Draw.io](https://app.diagrams.net/). Easy to use Diagram UI...

Updated May 09, 2026

Hidden Gems

Quality applications you might have missed

A Roughtime secure time synchronization client and server

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Jenkins

25.3k

Continuous Integration Server

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A pluggable architecture for backup and restore of database systems

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Fast, lightweight, simple and flexible Continuous Integration

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Fluentd

13.5k

Data collector for unified logging layer

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Statistics

Deep dive into the awesome-selfhosted ecosystem

17
Apps with Demos
~6% of catalog
304
New in 2026
~100% added this year
213
Actively Maintained
~70% updated in 6mo
202
Tagged Releases
~66% 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.
  • Software Collections - Community Release of Red Hat Software Collections. Provides updated packages of Ruby, Python, etc. for CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x.

Websites

  • Cloud Native Software Landscape - Compilation of software and tools for cloud computing.
  • ArchWiki - Arch Linux Wiki which has really nice written articles valid for other distros.
  • Gentoo Wiki - Gentoo Linux Wiki with a lot in-detail description of Linux components.
  • Awesome SysAdmin @ LibHunt - Your go-to SysAdmin Toolbox. Based on the list here.
  • Ops School - Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer.
  • Digital Ocean Tutorials - 6,000+ tutorials for getting the basics of certain applications/tools/systems administration topics.

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.