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An open source uptime and infrastructure monitoring application
This repository contains both the frontend and the backend of Checkmate, an open-source, self-hosted monitoring tool for tracking server hardware, uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time with beautiful visualizations. Checkmate regularly checks whether a server/website is accessible and performs optimally, providing real-time alerts and reports on the monitored services' availability, downtime, and response time.
Checkmate also has an agent, called [Capture](https://github.com/bluewave-labs/capture), to retrieve data from remote servers. While Capture is not required to run Checkmate, it provides additional insights about your servers' CPU, RAM, disk, and temperature status.
Checkmate has been stress-tested with 1000+ active monitors without any particular issues or performance bottlenecks.
We **love** what we are building here, and we continuously learn a few things about Reactjs, Nodejs, MongoDB, and Docker while building Checkmate.
## 📦 Demo
You can see the latest build of [Checkmate](https://checkmate-demo.bluewavelabs.ca/) in action. The username is uptimedemo@demo.com and the password is Demouser1! (just a note that we update the demo server from time to time, so if it doesn't work for you, please ping us on the Discussions channel).
## 🔗 User's guide
Usage instructions can be found [here](https://docs.checkmate.so/checkmate-2.1). It's still WIP and some of the information there might be outdated as we continuously add features weekly. Rest assured, we are doing our best! :)
## 🛠️ Installation
See installation instructions in [Checkmate documentation portal](https://docs.checkmate.so/checkmate-2.1/users-guide/quickstart). Alternatively, you can also use [Coolify](https://coolify.io/) or [Elestio](https://elest.io/open-source/checkmate) for a one-click Docker deployment. If you would like to monitor your server infrastructure, you'll need [Capture agent](https://github.com/bluewave-labs/capture). Capture repository also contains the installation instructions.
## 🏁 Translations
If you would like to use Checkmate in your language, please [go to this page](https://poeditor.com/join/project/lRUoGZFCsJ) and register for the language you would like to translate Checkmate to.
## 🚀 Performance
Thanks to extensive optimizations, Checkmate operates with an exceptionally small memory footprint, requiring minimal memory and CPU resources. Here’s the memory usage of a Node.js instance running on a server that monitors 323 servers every minute:
You can see the memory footprint of MongoDB and Redis on the same server (398Mb and 15Mb) for the same amount of servers:
## 💚 Questions & Ideas
If you have any questions, suggestions or comments, please use our [Discord channel](https://discord.gg/NAb6H3UTjK). We've also launched our [Discussions](https://github.com/bluewave-labs/bluewave-uptime/discussions) page! Feel free to ask questions or share your ideas—we'd love to hear from you!
## 🧩 Features
- Completely open source, deployable on your servers or home devices (e.g Raspberry Pi 4 or 5)
- Website monitoring
- Page speed monitoring
- Infrastructure monitoring (memory, disk usage, CPU performance etc) - requires [Capture](https://github.com/bluewave-labs/capture)
- Docker monitoring
- Ping monitoring
- SSL monitoring
- Port monitoring
- Incidents at a glance
- Status pages
- E-mail, Webhooks, Discord, Telegram, Slack notifications
- Scheduled maintenance
- JSON query monitoring
- Support for multiple languages
**Short term roadmap:** ([Milestone 2.2](https://github.com/bluewave-labs/Checkmate/milestone/8))
- Better notifications
- Network monitoring
- ..and a few more features
## 🏗️ Screenshots
## 🏗️ Tech stack
- [ReactJs](https://react.dev/)
- [MUI (React framework)](https://mui.com/)
- [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en)
- [MongoDB](https://mongodb.com)
- [Recharts](https://recharts.org)
- Lots of other open source components!
## A few links
- If you would like to support us, please consider giving it a ⭐ and click on "watch".
- Have a question or suggestion for the roadmap/featureset? Check our [Discord channel](https://discord.gg/NAb6H3UTjK) or [Discussions](https://github.com/bluewave-labs/checkmate/discussions) forum.
- Need a ping when there's a new release? Use [Newreleases](https://newreleases.io/), a free service to track releases.
- Watch a Checkmate [installation and usage video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfFOc0xHIwY)
## 🤝 Contributing
We are [Alex](http://github.com/ajhollid) (team lead), [Vishnu](http://github.com/vishnusn77), [Mohadeseh](http://github.com/mohicody), [Gorkem](http://github.com/gorkem-bwl/), [Owaise](http://github.com/Owaiseimdad), [Aryaman](https://github.com/Br0wnHammer) and [Mert](https://github.com/mertssmnoglu) helping individuals and businesses monitor their infra and servers.
We pride ourselves on building strong connections with contributors at every level. Despite being a young project, Checkmate has already earned 5800+ stars and attracted 70+ contributors from around the globe.
Our repo is starred by employees from **Google, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Tencent, Electronic Arts, ByteDance, JP Morgan Chase, Deloitte, Accenture, Foxconn, Broadcom, China Telecom, Barclays, Capgemini, Wipro, Cloudflare, Dassault Systèmes and NEC**, so don’t hold back — jump in, contribute and learn with us!
Here's how you can contribute:
0. Star this repo :)
1. Check [Contributor's guideline](https://github.com/bluewave-labs/Checkmate/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md). First timers are encouraged to check `good-first-issue` tag.
2. Check [project structure](https://docs.checkmate.so/checkmate-2.1/developers-guide/general-project-structure) and [high level overview](https://bluewavelabs.gitbook.io/checkmate/developers-guide/high-level-overview).
3. Read a detailed structure of [Checkmate](https://deepwiki.com/bluewave-labs/Checkmate) if you would like to deep dive into the architecture.
4. Open an issue if you believe you've encountered a bug.
5. Check for good-first-issue's if you are a newcomer.
6. Make a pull request to add new features/make quality-of-life improvements/fix bugs.
## 💰 Our sponsors
Thanks to [Gitbook](https://gitbook.io/) for giving us a free tier for their documentation platform, and [Poeditor](https://poeditor.com/) providing us a free account to use their i18n services. If you would like to sponsor Checkmate, please send an email to hello@bluewavelabs.ca
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- [DataRoom](https://github.com/bluewave-labs/bluewave-dataroom), an secure file sharing application, aka dataroom.
- [Guidefox](https://github.com/bluewave-labs/guidefox), an application that helps new users learn how to use your product via hints, tours, popups and banners.