Monitoring built for the people on call
Chokidar is a new project born from years of running production infrastructure and wishing for a simpler, more honest monitoring tool. It is early, opinionated, and being built in public.
Our mission
Make it trivial to know — across every router, host, database, service, and log line — whether your infrastructure is healthy right now and whether it is trending toward not being healthy soon. Multi-tenant. Distributed. Open at the edges.
What we believe
Four principles shape every decision in the product.
Operator-first
Built for the engineer holding the pager at 3am. Every flow optimizes for reading signal in seconds, not minutes.
Truth over noise
Alerts must be actionable. Batch, dedupe, and rank by severity so only what matters reaches you.
Open by default
Open protocols (SNMP, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) over proprietary lock-in. Self-host or run managed — your data, your terms.
Boring on purpose
ClickHouse, .NET, Postgres. Battle-tested primitives compound; clever stacks rot. We pick what you trust at 3am.
Where we are headed
The project is young, but the direction is clear.
Unified observability
Metrics, logs, and health checks in one pane — not three tabs and a context switch.
Scalable architecture
Designed to scale with your monitoring footprint while keeping shared infrastructure efficient.
Community-driven
Open core, public roadmap, and decisions shaped by the people who run it in production.
Try it early
Chokidar is open for early adopters and design partners. If you run infrastructure and want a cleaner monitoring stack, we would love your feedback.