About

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.

Why it exists

Monitoring tools split into two camps. On one side, enterprise SaaS like Datadog and New Relic — priced for large teams, billed per host at $15 or more, and 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. MSPs. IT 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.

Principles

Four rules we hold the product to.

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.

Scope

What RackWatch is not.

A high-cardinality metrics store.
Per-second resolution and years of retention are better served by a dedicated TSDB.
A log aggregator.
Logs live in tools built for logs.
An uptime checker.
RackWatch watches the servers themselves, not the pages they serve.
A SaaS.
RackWatch runs on your hardware. Your fleet data never leaves your network.

Questions, deployment help, or feature requests.

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