Selection never showed. getRowSx set a background on the <tr>, but every <td> paints background.paper over it, and the hover rule targets cells - so hover won and selection was invisible. Selection and hover are now both cell-level rules in DataTable, with selection first so hover layers on top, and rows carry an `is-selected` class from a new isRowSelected prop. Uptime, Docker and Infrastructure tables all had the same broken copy of this; they now share the one implementation, and any future table gets it for free. action.selected/selectedHover are defined explicitly and tinted with the brand, so a selected row reads as chosen rather than dirty. Kept low (6-11%) so the highlight does not swamp the row, especially in dark mode. From code review: - Dropped the Google Fonts @import at the top of index.css. Nothing has used Inter since the switch to Geist, and it was a render-blocking third-party request on every load - exactly what self-hosting the font was meant to avoid on air-gapped installs. - TextInput's autofill override painted background.default, which used to equal paper and no longer does, so Chrome-autofilled fields showed a grey block on white cards. Now paper. - Sidebar background moved from sx to the bgcolor prop (convention rule 1, and it was a new lint warning), and the backdropFilter dropped - the background is opaque, so the blur only cost a compositing layer. - Tab no longer bolds the selected label. That is the same reflow the ToggleButton change removed, and worse here because the indicator animates toward a target that moves as the label widens. - Corrected the StatBox gradient comment: contrastText is white in light mode but near-black in dark, so the constraint is staying near `main`, not staying dark. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AbYLvwpEaZFXktHVcqrFRd
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Checkmate
An open source uptime and infrastructure monitoring application
This repository contains both the frontend and the backend of Checkmate, an open-source, self-hosted monitoring tool for tracking server hardware, uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time with beautiful visualizations. Checkmate regularly checks whether a server/website is accessible and performs optimally, providing real-time alerts and reports on the monitored services' availability, downtime, and response time.
Checkmate also has an agent, called Capture, to retrieve data from remote servers. While Capture is not required to run Checkmate, it provides additional insights about your servers' CPU, RAM, disk, and temperature status. Capture can run on Linux, Windows, Mac, Raspberry Pi, or any device that can run Go.
Checkmate has been stress-tested with 1000+ active monitors without any particular issues or performance bottlenecks.
📚 Table of contents
- 📦 Demo
- 🔗 User's guide
- 🛠️ Installation
- 🚀 Performance
- 💚 Questions & Ideas
- 🧩 Features
- 🏗️ Screenshots
- 🏗️ Tech stack
- 🔗 A few links
- 🤝 Contributing
Demo
You can see the latest build of Checkmate in action.
The username is demouser@demo.com and the password is Demouser1! (just a note that we update the demo server from time to time, so if it doesn't work for you, please ping us on the Discussions channel).
User's guide
Usage instructions can be found here.
Prerequisites
Installation
The quickest way to run Checkmate is the reference Docker Compose file. It starts two services: the all-in-one Checkmate application image (ghcr.io/bluewave-labs/checkmate) and a separate MongoDB service.
What “all-in-one” means: the Checkmate application is packaged in a single image; MongoDB is not embedded in that image and remains required. The reference Compose file starts MongoDB for you. For custom deployments, configure
DB_CONNECTION_STRINGto use an external MongoDB instance.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bluewave-labs/checkmate/master/docker/docker-compose.yaml
JWT_SECRET="$(openssl rand -hex 32)" docker compose up -d
Then open http://localhost:52345. If the app is reached at another origin (domain or LAN IP), set CLIENT_HOST accordingly. To build the image yourself, run docker build -f docker/Dockerfile -t checkmate . from a checkout. For TLS, put any reverse proxy (Caddy, Traefik, nginx) in front of port 52345.
There are also 1-click installation options like Repocloud, Pikapods, Coolify, Elestio, K8s, Sive Host or Cloudzy.
Configuration
The image is configured entirely through environment variables on the server container:
| Variable | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
DB_CONNECTION_STRING |
Yes | MongoDB connection string, e.g. mongodb://mongodb:27017/uptime_db |
JWT_SECRET |
Yes | Secret used to sign auth tokens; generate one with openssl rand -hex 32 |
CLIENT_HOST |
Yes | The URL users reach the app at, e.g. https://checkmate.example.com; used for CORS and for links in notifications and emails |
LOG_LEVEL |
No | Server log level: error, warn, info, or debug (default debug) |
The web client needs no configuration by default: it calls the API on the same origin it was served from (/api/v1). For setups where the defaults don't apply — for example, the API is reached through a different origin than the page — the server renders overrides into the client at runtime via these optional variables:
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
CLIENT_CONFIG_API_BASE_URL |
Full base URL the client calls the API at, e.g. https://api.example.com/api/v1; defaults to same-origin /api/v1 |
CLIENT_CONFIG_CLIENT_HOST |
Origin used when the client builds absolute links (invites, status pages); defaults to the browser's current origin |
CLIENT_CONFIG_LOG_LEVEL |
Browser console log level: error, warn, info, or debug (default error) |
Upgrading from an older image? The
UPTIME_APP_*variables (UPTIME_APP_API_BASE_URL,UPTIME_APP_CLIENT_HOST,UPTIME_APP_LOG_LEVEL) are no longer read. In most setups no replacement is needed — the same-origin defaults cover them; if you pointed the client at a different origin, use theCLIENT_CONFIG_*equivalents above. Thecheckmate-client,checkmate-backend,checkmate-mongo, andcheckmate-backend-mono-multiarchimages are no longer updated — switch toghcr.io/bluewave-labs/checkmate, keeping your existing MongoDB service and data volume.
See full installation instructions in the Checkmate documentation portal.
Alternatively, you can also use Coolify, Elestio, K8s, Sive Host (South Africa), Cloudzy or Pikapods to quickly spin off a Checkmate instance. If you would like to monitor your server infrastructure, you'll need Capture agent. Capture repository also contains the installation instructions.
Using a Custom CA
If you need to monitor internal HTTPS endpoints with certificates from private Certificate Authorities (like Smallstep), see our Custom CA Trust Guide for Docker configuration options.
For more documentation, see the docs directory.
Performance
Thanks to extensive optimizations, Checkmate operates with an exceptionally small memory footprint, requiring minimal memory and CPU resources. Here’s the memory usage of a Node.js instance running on a server that monitors 323 servers every minute:
You can see the memory footprint of MongoDB and Redis on the same server (398Mb and 15Mb) for the same amount of servers:
Questions & Ideas
If you have any questions, suggestions or comments, you have several options:
- Discord channel (preferred)
- GitHub Discussions (we check here from time to time)
Feel free to ask questions or share your ideas - we'd love to hear from you!
Features
- Completely open source, deployable on your servers or home devices (e.g Raspberry Pi 4 or 5)
- Several monitoring options: Uptime, Docker, Ping, SSL, Port, Game server
- Page speed monitoring
- Infrastructure monitoring (memory, disk usage, CPU performance, network etc) - requires Capture agent
- Selective disk monitoring with mountpoint selection
- Incidents at a glance
- Status pages with 4 beautiful themes
- E-mail, Webhooks, Discord, Slack, PagerDuty, Matrix, Rocket.Chat, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Pushover, Twilio (SMS) notifications
- Scheduled maintenance
- JSON query monitoring
- Multi-language support for Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan), Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese
Monitor Lifecycle
- A monitor executes a check (HTTP / ping / port / hardware via Capture agent)
- The result is stored (success/failure + response time)
- Recent check results are evaluated against the monitor's configured status change threshold
- If the monitor's status change threshold is met and the current status is not equal to the previous status, the monitor's state changes (e.g.
initializing,up,down,breached) - Upon a state change: an incident is either created or resolved, depending on the monitor's current status
- Notifications are triggered based on configuration
Screenshots
Tech stack
- ReactJs
- MUI (React framework)
- Node.js
- MongoDB
- Recharts
- Lots of other open source components!
A few links
- If you would like to support us, please consider giving it a ⭐ and click on "watch".
- Have a question or suggestion for the roadmap/featureset? Check our Discord channel or Discussions forum.
- Need a ping when there's a new release? Use Newreleases, a free service to track releases.
- Watch a Checkmate installation and usage video
Contributing
We are Alex (team lead), Gorkem, Aryaman and Mert helping individuals and businesses monitor their infra and servers.
We pride ourselves on building strong connections with contributors at every level. Despite being a young project, Checkmate has already earned almost 11K+ stars and attracted 150+ contributors from around the globe.
Our repo is starred by employees from Google, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Tencent, Electronic Arts, ByteDance, JP Morgan Chase, Deloitte, Accenture, Foxconn, Broadcom, China Telecom, Barclays, Capgemini, Wipro, Cloudflare, Dassault Systèmes and NEC, so don’t hold back — jump in, contribute and learn with us!
Here's how you can contribute:
- Star this repo :)
- Check Contributor's guideline. First timers are encouraged to check
good-first-issuetag. - Read a detailed structure of Checkmate if you would like to deep dive into the architecture.
- Open an issue if you believe you've encountered a bug.
- Check for good-first-issue's if you are a newcomer.
- Make a pull request to add new features/make quality-of-life improvements/fix bugs.
- Check out this interactive walkthrough of the
Checkmatecodebase on CodeCanvas here. To refine existing dataflow simulation or create new ones, follow the quick tutorial here.