Metric Owl
Metric Owl is a free, Apache-2.0 server monitor for Linux that you install on your own machine, with local alert rules, an optional bring-your-own-key AI chat and read-only MCP.
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A closer look at Metric Owl
Metric Owl is an open-source, self-hosted Linux server monitoring tool with a live dashboard, local alert rules, email alerts, optional AI chat with your own key and read-only MCP.
A monitor that lives on the server it watches
You've got one Linux server doing real work, and you'd like to know when a disk fills up or something starts misbehaving, without signing up for a hosted dashboard. Metric Owl is built for exactly that setup. One installation observes one server, and it runs on that server. The dashboard shows CPU, RAM, disks and network, along with processes. Local rules, including ready-made ones and time-window conditions, catch problems and group them into incidents.
According to the README, your application, account and monitoring history stay on your server. The public website is product information only, so there's no shared monitoring service behind it and no customer login. The monitoring backend is written in Rust.
Asking the server what happened
The optional Server AI chat is bring-your-own-key. You connect an AI provider and ask questions, and the README's promise is that answers are short, in Turkish or English, and grounded in that server's data. There's also read-only MCP access for Codex and other clients.
It's worth knowing what leaves the machine when you use these, and the privacy page spells it out. A chat question sends the question, limited recent conversation and bounded monitoring context to the AI provider you connected. Email alerts go through your own SMTP provider or an optional notification relay.
Before you run the installer
Supported systems are Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04 LTS and Debian 12 and 13, on x86-64 with systemd. Installation is one command that pipes a bootstrap script into sudo bash. Helpfully, the README links the script and the release checksums so you can inspect them first. The installer then offers HTTPS access from any device or private access through an SSH tunnel.
This is early software. The install command is pinned to v0.1.0-preview.10, the GitHub repository was created on October 30, 2026, and the README itself notes that how deeply each platform has been validated differs.
Metric Owl is free and open source under the Apache License 2.0. The website's privacy page, updated November 1, 2026, states that the site loads no third-party analytics, advertising pixels or tracking cookies. No company is named, and the code is published from the GitHub account SpeakQuery. If you like the idea of monitoring history that never leaves your own machine and you're comfortable with preview software, it's worth a look.
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November 11, 2026
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November 12, 2026
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