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| Field | act | Gatus | Beszel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platforms | GitHub | Universal | Universal |
| Local support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Paid API | No | No | No |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Stars | 72437 | 12381 | 26480 |
| Last activity | — | September 24, 2026 | October 20, 2026 |
| Install complexity | — | سهل إلى متوسط / Easy to moderate | متوسط / Medium |
| Category | Testing, Git, DevOps | Security, DevOps | DevOps, Monitoring |
| Best use | Best for a developer or small team that repeatedly edits GitHub Actions workflows and wants to test a job before pushing. It provides a local run log, while a final GitHub check remains necessary. It is not suitable when exact hosted-runner parity is required. | Best for an individual developer or small team that wants self-hosted website, API, DNS, and certificate checks with a status page and threshold-based alerts. It combines active checks and simple history in one service. It does not replace resource monitoring, logs, or distributed tracing. | Best for an individual developer or small team running a VPS, home server, or a few Docker hosts and needing a simple dashboard, history, and alerts. Its value is combining host and container metrics in a self-hosted hub. It is not a full logs-and-traces observability platform. |