Built for the people who run the racks.
RackWatch is a server-monitoring platform designed for the data center floor — not the cloud console. Install once, watch every host, pay $2 a server instead of $15. No week-long configuration, no vendor contract.
Built by Abdijabar Sheikh.
I've worn the on-call pager at three different shops where the monitoring stack was either Datadog (paying $15 a host while wishing for $50K more in headcount) or a pile of Bash, cron, and Slack webhooks held together by hope. The fourth time I started rebuilding the same dashboard from scratch, I figured I should just ship it as a product.
RackWatch is the tool I wanted on day one of every job: server health and patch lag on one screen, install in under five minutes, runs on my hardware, doesn't cost like a SaaS contract.
Reach me at hello@rackwatch.io or as @weyndahir on GitHub.
Monitoring splits into two camps. On one side, enterprise SaaS like Datadog and New Relic — priced for large teams, billed per host at $15 or more, cloud-only. On the other, open-source stacks like Zabbix and Prometheus — powerful enough for a planet-scale fleet, but demanding days of setup before they return useful signal.
RackWatch is built for the middle. Data-center racks. Regional offices. Single-tenant infra teams running on bare metal and VMs who want a clean dashboard without the cloud dependency or the configuration marathon. One binary, one command, $2 a server.
Install time under five minutes.
If setup takes longer than a coffee break, we've already lost. One binary, one systemd unit, one command per server.
The dashboard should be honest.
One risk score per host. No vanity metrics, no chart that exists just to fill space.
Your data stays on your hardware.
No phoning home, no cloud telemetry, no exfiltration. Works in air-gapped networks.
Priced so you don't need a budget line.
Two dollars per server per month. A 100-server fleet costs less than a single Datadog seat.
A self-hosted product is a long bet. You install it once and you'll run it for years. The unspoken question every procurement team asks before opening a ticket: what if the company behind it shuts down?
Two pledges, both written into the EULA so they're enforceable, not just marketing:
1. Source release on shutdown.
If RackWatch the company is wound down, dissolved, or sold to a buyer that won't continue shipping it, the platform source is released under the Apache 2.0 license within 90 days. The agent is already Apache 2.0 today; this pledge means the platform never becomes abandonware.
2. Data export, always.
Every release ships with a single command that exports your fleet history — hosts, telemetry, alerts, license inventory — to portable formats (JSON, CSV, SQLite dumps). No internet required. If you ever want to leave RackWatch, your data leaves with you.
Bootstrapped. No VC, no investors, no acquisition pressure to enshittify. Revenue comes from per-server subscriptions ($2/server/month above the free Homelab tier) and nothing else — no data sales, no ad networks, no "Pro" upsell you didn't know existed.
The whole pricing page is the whole price list. If we ever raise outside money, we'll say so on this page within seven days.
RackWatch is the product line; Mondaluk Data Solution LLC, a Minnesota limited liability company, is the operating entity. Abdijabar Sheikh — a Minnesota resident — is the principal. Disputes are governed by Minnesota law as stated in the Terms and License.
For EU/UK customers and procurement: we're a US-only operation today. International data-transfer language and Standard Contractual Clauses are summarized in the Privacy Policy.
Not a wishlist. The actual queue, refreshed each quarter. Last updated 2026-05-03 — target completion by 2026-08-01.