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Fivenines
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Beszel vs Fivenines: self-hosted or managed?
Beszel is a capable open-source choice for host metrics, Docker and Podman containers, GPU monitoring and alerts. Its network monitors also check HTTP, TCP, ICMP and DNS from your agents. Switching is most useful when your priority is reducing hub maintenance and connecting monitoring to incident response and customer communication.
Choose Beszel when owning the hub and its data is part of your requirements. Choose Fivenines when you want a hosted dashboard, public status pages and workflows that connect infrastructure problems to alerts and incidents.
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Quick Comparison
The rows that usually decide whether Beszel stays in the stack or Fivenines replaces it.
| Feature | B Beszel |
Fivenines
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|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted hub + agent | Fully managed |
| Built-in status pages | ||
| Incident management | ||
| Cron job monitoring | ||
| Proxmox VM monitoring | ||
| GPU monitoring | ||
| Database & service monitoring | systemd / ZFS health | |
| Uptime monitoring (HTTP/TCP/ICMP/DNS) | Agent-based HTTP/TCP/ICMP/DNS | |
| PagerDuty (opens + resolves) | Business+ | |
| Package vulnerability scanning | ||
| Starting price | Free (self-hosted) | €19/mo |
| Total Cost of Ownership | Hosting + maintenance time | From €19/mo, fully managed |
Why teams consider Fivenines instead of Beszel
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No hub to maintain
Fivenines hosts the monitoring platform. You install agents and configure the checks you need, without managing a separate hub's updates, storage and backups.
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Status pages built in
Share uptime with your users on a public status page. No need to bolt on a separate tool like Upptime or Cachet alongside your monitoring.
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Incident tracking
Connect workflow alerts to incidents, keep a timeline of updates and record resolution. Publish customer-facing incidents to your status page when needed.
When Fivenines earns the switch
Your Proxmox estate needs a cluster view. Fivenines' Proxmox monitoring discovers nodes, VMs, LXC containers and storage through the Proxmox API. Review quorum, guest state and backup coverage alongside server metrics.
Your team needs a response workflow. Use workflows to route alerts and create incidents, then share updates through a status page. Beszel already provides configurable notifications; the decision is whether you also want these operational steps in the monitoring product.
You want security context with container metrics. Every plan gets CVE counts for supported host packages; Pro and above adds per-package findings with fix versions, plus container image scanning of Debian, Ubuntu and Alpine OS packages. Check the vulnerability scanning coverage against the systems you actually run.
When Beszel might be a better fit
Beszel and Fivenines pricing: what to budget
Beszel has no software licence fee. Your cost is the infrastructure and time you allocate to the hub, backups and upgrades. That can be a good tradeoff when you already operate a homelab or prefer to control the whole stack.
Fivenines Starter is €19/month for 15 monitors. Servers, uptime checks and cron tasks each use a monitor: five servers, five uptime checks and five tasks use all 15. Compare the plan limits and included features before choosing, especially if you need image scanning or particular notification channels.
How to evaluate a move from Beszel
- Pilot one representative host. Keep Beszel running while you install Fivenines. Compare host and Docker metrics under normal load, including the disks and containers you rely on.
- Recreate the checks that matter. Configure thresholds, recipients and uptime probes, then test an alert and its recovery. Beszel's probes run from your agents; Fivenines' external probes may see a different network path.
- Validate before retiring the hub. Check your Proxmox or job-monitoring setup if needed, and confirm that the team can find an incident and publish an update. Fivenines starts a new metric history; retain your Beszel data and backups for the period you still need them.
Competitor capabilities checked on 23 September 2026 against Beszel's feature guide and systemd documentation.
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