AutoKuma

Judgement

What it is

Integration

What it does

Creates and updates Uptime Kuma monitors automatically from Docker container labels.

Adopt it when

You run many Docker services with Uptime Kuma and are tired of adding monitors by hand.

Watch out

Talks to Uptime Kuma through its internal socket API, which can break with Kuma updates.

Ready for

Usable

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

Rust and Tokio

How established

Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v2.0.0.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: AutoKuma → Rust → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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