Vigil

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A Rust status page and monitor for microservice infrastructure that probes HTTP, TCP and ICMP and sends alerts through Slack, email, SMS and more.

Adopt it when

You want a lightweight, efficient status page for a set of services and are happy configuring it in TOML.

Watch out

Single maintainer and file-based configuration.

Ready for

Production-ready

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

Rust and Actix

How established

Established: started 8 years ago, latest release v1.29.0.

What the license allows

You can use it inside a product you sell; changes you make to its own files must be shared.

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: Vigil → Rust → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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