Use case · 1–10 engineers, a tight budget.
Startups
Cloud monitoring is scary on price, and a homegrown stack of many open-source components is far too much to maintain.
What Unimoni offers
One Go binary + Postgres + a Prometheus-compatible TSDB. Up and running in an hour, zero ops tax.
Concretely
- ✓Free tier for up to 10 hosts
- ✓Self-hosted on a $20 VPS
- ✓No licenses billed by "hosts × cardinality × samples"
How it works
One process
The server is a single Go binary that needs only Postgres. No separate Alertmanager, Pushgateway or exporter zoo: ingest, storage, rules and dashboards live in one process.
Up in minutes
`docker compose up` or one systemd unit and the agent is already shipping metrics. The 10-host free tier opens with no card.
A bill you can predict
Self-hosted on a ~$20/mo VPS handles dozens of hosts. Managed bills hosts and users only — label cardinality and series count are never penalised.