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DevOps, hosting & monitoring: the tech stack of 60 real products

Deploying, hosting, logging, uptime and incident tools.

What sets them apart

Picks at least twice as common here as among products overall, in decisions at least 10 of them show.

NodemailerTransactional Email4.7×as often as overall9 of the DevOps, hosting & monitoring that show transactional email (47%)ClickHouseDatabase3.9×as often as overall7 of the DevOps, hosting & monitoring that show database (16%)React RouterFrontend Framework3.4×as often as overall22 of the DevOps, hosting & monitoring that show frontend framework (48%)Better AuthAuthentication3.1×as often as overall8 of the DevOps, hosting & monitoring that show authentication (57%)GitHub PagesHosting2.5×as often as overall8 of the DevOps, hosting & monitoring that show hosting (33%)FastifyBackend Framework2.2×as often as overall6 of the DevOps, hosting & monitoring that show backend framework (16%)

The typical stack

The leading pick where at least 8 of them show the decision and the leader has at least a quarter of it.

DecisionMost common pickShareAt default usage
Frontend FrameworkReact40 of 46 · 87%—
DatabasePostgreSQL25 of 43 · 58%—
Backend FrameworkExpress18 of 38 · 47%—
HostingCloudflare8 of 24 · 33%$12/mo · Workers Paid
Database Access & ORMsDrizzle ORM11 of 21 · 52%—
Transactional EmailNodemailer9 of 19 · 47%—
PaymentsStripe11 of 15 · 73%fees on revenue · $410 on $10,000/mo
AuthenticationBetter Auth8 of 14 · 57%$0/mo · Self-hosted (open source)
Background Jobs & CronBullMQ5 of 14 · 36%—
Product AnalyticsPostHog13 of 14 · 93%$0/mo · Pay-as-you-go
File StorageAmazon S39 of 12 · 75%$11/mo · S3 Standard (US East)

Monthly bills add up to about $23 at the calculators' default usage, list prices; fees on revenue (Stripe) come on top. Set your own usage →

What they chose, decision by decision

Among the DevOps, hosting & monitoring that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.

Frontend Framework46 products
React40 · 87%React Router22 · 48%Next.js17 · 37%Vue.js6 · 13%
Database43 products
PostgreSQL25 · 58%MySQL9 · 21%MongoDB8 · 19%ClickHouse7 · 16%
Backend Framework38 products
Express18 · 47%Hono9 · 24%FastAPI7 · 18%Fastify6 · 16%
Hosting24 products
Cloudflare8 · 33%GitHub Pages8 · 33%Amazon Web Services4 · 17%Netlify3 · 13%
Database Access & ORMs21 products
Drizzle ORM11 · 52%Prisma5 · 24%SQLAlchemy3 · 14%TypeORM3 · 14%
Transactional Email19 products
Nodemailer9 · 47%Resend6 · 32%Postmark3 · 16%SendGrid3 · 16%
Payments15 products
Stripe11 · 73%Autumn2 · 13%Polar1 · 7%Lemon Squeezy1 · 7%
Authentication14 products
Better Auth8 · 57%Auth02 · 14%Auth.js2 · 14%Clerk1 · 7%
Background Jobs & Cron14 products
BullMQ5 · 36%Celery4 · 29%RabbitMQ4 · 29%pg-boss3 · 21%
Product Analytics14 products
PostHog13 · 93%Amplitude1 · 7%
File Storage12 products
Amazon S39 · 75%Vercel Blob2 · 17%MinIO2 · 17%

Small samples, fewer than 8 products: Error Monitoring (Sentry 6) · LLM API (OpenAI API 4, Claude 3) · AI SDK & Agent Framework (AI SDK 3, LangChain 2) · Image & Video Hosting (sharp 5) · Web Analytics (Plausible Analytics 3, Vercel Web Analytics 1)

DevOps, hosting & monitoring we track

30 makers' products and 30 open-source projects. Makers' products first.

MailTockMailTock monitors transactional email sent through providers such as Mailgun, Mailchimp and SendGrid and alerts you when messages fail to deliver.
HTML PubTurn AI-generated HTML into a live URL via MCP/API
Small HoursAI powered software observability and root cause analysis.
Uselinkhost your html, share the link, and get comments
ByteNitePioneering distributed computing and serverless applications
monitorReal-time monitoring, slowlog analysis, and audit trails for Valkey and Redis+18
superlogOpen-source observability tool that uses AI agents to self-heal your software+8
capgo.appConsole, Backend and CLI to manage Capgo Instant update and Native build for Capacitor apps +6
oneuptimeComplete open-source monitoring and observability platform.+5
evlogDigging through logs is not observability. It's hope — wide events, structured errors, TypeScript-first, every runtime.+12
tianjiTianji: Insight into everything, Website Analytics + Uptime Monitor + Server Status. not only another GA alternatives+8
diggerDigger is an open source IaC orchestration tool. Digger allows you to run IaC in your existing CI pipeline ⚡️ +6
kagentCloud Native Agentic AI | Discord: https://bit.ly/kagentdiscord+6
iasqlCloud Infrastructure as data in PostgreSQL+5
pages-corecloud.gov Pages is a publishing platform for modern 21st Century IDEA websites.+3
compartmentCompartment is a self-hosted deployment system for small software on infrastructure your team controls.+1
grucloudGenerate code and diagrams from cloud infrastructures: AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes+1
drydockOpen source container update monitoring — 23 registries, 20 notification triggers, audit log, OIDC auth, Prometheus metrics, and a modern dashboard.
loglayerA modern logging library for Javascript / Typescript that routes logs to various logging libraries, cloud providers, files, StatsD, and OpenTelemetry while providing a fluent API for specifying log me
xen-orchestraThe global orchestration solution to manage and backup XCP-ng and XenServer.
nixopusRun production apps without thinking about infrastructure. On your server or ours. Fully agentic.
pixieInstant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability
leekCelery Tasks Monitoring Tool
plomberyPython task scheduler with a user-friendly web UI
chaos-meshA Chaos Engineering Platform for Kubernetes.
blastOpen-source VMs-as-a-service
consoleDeploy docker containers on the Akash Network+7
the-startup-stackGet independence from SaaS without loosing its developer experience, the infra primitives to adapt to any future requirement, and the tools to build delightful, secure user experiences.+1
blueking-paas蓝鲸智云 PaaS 平台是一个开放式的开发平台，让开发者可以方便快捷地创建、开发、部署和管理 SaaS 应用。它提供了完善的前后台开发框架、服务总线（ESB）、API Gateway、调度引擎、公共组件 等服务。旨在帮助用户快速、低成本的构建免运维运营系统与支撑工具。
meliPlatform for deploying static sites and frontend applications easily. Automatic SSL, deploy previews, reverse proxy, and more.
uptimekitUptimekit provides distributed monitoring and status page
zerobyteBackup automation for self-hosters. Built on top of restic
armadaA multi-cluster batch queuing system for high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes.
ledokkuBeautiful web UI for all things Dokku
configuOpen-source ConfigOps infrastructure ⚙️
zentralZentral is a control plane for secure, observable Apple endpoints in enterprises. Configure, observe, and enforce the desired state of every Apple endpoint. Manage that desired state as code through G
dcmDockerComposeMaker (DCM) is a self-hostable website to help you pick and create a docker-compose.yml file for your home server. Discover new containers, discover and share a config in a couple of clic
OpsManage自动化运维平台: 代码及应用部署CI/CD、资产管理CMDB、计划任务管理平台、SQL审核|回滚、任务调度、站内WIKI
persesThe CNCF sandbox for observability visualisation. Already supports Prometheus, Tempo, Loki and Pyroscope - more data sources to come!
tacticalrmmA remote monitoring & management tool, built with Django, Vue and Go.
web-monitoring前端监控，性能监控平台。前端监控平台专注于Web端体验数据监控。对网页健康状况的三个方面进行监测：页面打开速度（速度测量）、页面稳定性（JS错误）和外部服务调用成功率（API）
arcaneModern Docker Management, Designed for Everyone
benchmarksCompare performance across sandbox, storage, browsers, and ai gateway providers.
cabotSelf-hosted, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service - like a lightweight PagerDuty
citizenA Private Terraform Module/Provider Registry
isardIsard VDI. Open Source KVM Virtual Desktops based on KVM Linux and dockers. Please use https://gitlab.com/isard/isardvdi
nomad-opsA simple operator for nomad which reconciles the running jobs in comparison to git repos. Essentially bringing gitops to nomad
statusbayKubernetes deployment visibility like a pro
UpSnapA simple wake on lan web app written with SvelteKit, Go and PocketBase.
vnstat-clientGUI Client for vnStat Network Monitor for Linux or GNU/Linux