Every free host metrics tier that clears our bar in 2026: 9 offers meet the criteria and 3 offers are demoted with a named reason. Our membership test: an agent you install on a machine reports CPU, memory, disk and process state for that machine. We could not confirm today's terms for 3 of them, and on all 3 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
Netdata is an open-source tool to collect real-time metrics. It's a growing product and can also be found on GitHub!
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.netdata.cloud/, where it says: “Metrics Management eBPF Monitoring”. How we use this
Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic checks, 8+ days retention Best for unlimited usage needs.
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://newrelic.com/pricing, where it says: “With New Relic usage-based pricing , you no longer have to count hosts or CPUs.”. How we use this
Powerful server monitoring in a unified platform for metrics and logs, with no setup complexity. Free for one server.
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://simpleobservability.com, where it says: “Server monitoring Monitor your entire fleet.”. How we use this
Server and website monitoring (formerly Nixstats) — free Lite plan: 1 server monitor, 5 site monitors, 10-minute check interval, 24-hour data retention, email alerts
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://360monitoring.com/pricing/, where it says: “Website Monitoring Server Monitoring Blocklist Monitoring Full Site Check”. How we use this
Observability platform — Logs: 500 MB/day ingestion, 7-day retention. Monitoring: 3 hosts, 3 containers/host, 30-min data retention, 1 alert rule. Volume-based pricing, no per-host charges on paid plans
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://sematext.com/pricing, where it says: “install the agent Sematext will start providing valuable performance insights.”. How we use this
Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 20 monitors (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), 5-minute check interval, 1 basic status page with real-time updates and subscriber notifications, 1 seat, 1 server monitoring agent, email and webhook alerts
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://hyperping.com/pricing, where it says: “SERVER MONITORING Server agents A lightweight agent that reports CPU, memory, disk and network from your servers.”. How we use this
Full-stack observability platform — free forever plan: 100 GB/month data (APM, logs, infrastructure, traces, RUM, synthetics, database, serverless), 1,000 RUM sessions/month, 20,000 synthetic checks/month, 14-day data retention, unlimited users Best for unlimited usage needs.
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://middleware.io/pricing/, where it says: “Product Products Infrastructure Monitoring Monitor servers, cloud & infra health APM Track app performance & fix”. How we use this
Free for 3 servers, 5 uptime monitors, unlimited users, unlimited dashboards, unlimited alerting rules. Best for unlimited usage needs. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-19, we reached a domain root that states nothing about the terms we hold, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://bleemeo.com, where it says: “CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics collected every 10 seconds”. How we use this
Free server monitoring service with alerts and metrics. Up to 25 servers and 25 uptime monitoring instances.
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://syagent.com/, where it says: “Monitor Linux servers, processes, disks, network”. How we use this
Infrastructure monitoring free for up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/, where it says: “Standard Events and Metrics Up to 5 hosts”. How we use this
Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, xitoring.com reads: The page offers a 14-day free trial, and then paid plans starting at $4.99/mo for Uptime + SSL. We are not publishing our stored Xitoring.com terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-08-28: The page highlights a 14-day free trial, and then lists paid plans starting at $4.99/mo. Source ↗
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://xitoring.com/, where it says: “HTTP(S), DNS, TCP, UDP, Ping, and mail server monitoring.”. How we use this
Linux server monitoring with real-time dashboards and alerting — no permanent free tier. 14-day free trial with no credit card required; paid plans from €19/month. Note — discovered 2026-08-28: The page now highlights a 14-day free trial and a starting plan at €19/month. Source ↗
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://fivenines.io/, where it says: “Server metrics via the open-source agent on Linux and Windows.”. How we use this
| Vendor | Free Tier | Key Limits | Durability | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| netdata.cloud | Free | Netdata is an open-source tool to collect real-time metrics. It's a growing product and can also be found on GitHub! read found the page different · 2026-09-15 |
stable | 2026-09-15 / 2026-07-08 |
| New Relic | Free | Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic check... | stable | 2026-09-16 |
| Simple Observability | Free | Powerful server monitoring in a unified platform for metrics and logs, with no setup complexity. Free for one server. | stable | 2026-09-22 |
| 360 Monitoring | Lite | Server and website monitoring (formerly Nixstats) — free Lite plan: 1 server monitor, 5 site monitors, 10-minute check i... | stable | 2026-09-10 |
| Sematext | Basic (Free) | Observability platform — Logs: 500 MB/day ingestion, 7-day retention. Monitoring: 3 hosts, 3 containers/host, 30-min dat... | stable | 2026-09-20 / 2026-07-05 |
| Hyperping | Free | Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 20 monitors (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), 5-minute check interval, 1 basic... | improving effective 2026-04-08 |
2026-09-10 / 2026-07-07 |
| Middleware.io | Free | Full-stack observability platform — free forever plan: 100 GB/month data (APM, logs, infrastructure, traces, RUM, synthe... | stable | 2026-09-10 |
| bleemeo.com | Free | Free for 3 servers, 5 uptime monitors, unlimited users, unlimited dashboards, unlimited alerting rules. | not published change not established · 2026-09-19 |
2026-09-19 / 2026-07-11 |
| syagent.com | Free | Free server monitoring service with alerts and metrics. Up to 25 servers and 25 uptime monitoring instances. | stable | 2026-09-25 |
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 9 free host metrics offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
9 offers meet our criteria on this page. Of those, 7 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded widening, and we publish no durability signal for 1. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.
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