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| Field | restic | Beszel | Gatus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Universal | Universal | Universal |
| Local support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Paid API | No | No | No |
| License | BSD-2-Clause | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 36757 | 26480 | 12381 |
| Last activity | September 25, 2026 | October 20, 2026 | September 24, 2026 |
| Install complexity | متوسط: CLI ومستودع وجدولة منفصلة / Moderate: CLI, repository, and separate scheduling | متوسط / Medium | سهل إلى متوسط / Easy to moderate |
| Category | Security, DevOps | DevOps, Monitoring | Security, DevOps |
| Best use | Best for an individual developer or small team that needs encrypted, testable backups of project files and exported database dumps. It works with local or remote storage and can be scheduled by the operating system. It does not replace application-consistent database exports or recovery testing. | 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. | 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. |