The story
Why I built Fivenines
I have run infrastructure long enough to know that monitoring usually fails in two ways: it is either too small to trust, or so large that it becomes another system you have to operate. A single VPS starts with a few scripts. Then you add uptime checks, cron alerts, logs, dashboards, status pages, and vulnerability scans. At some point the monitoring stack needs monitoring too.
The big tools solve this for big companies, but they bring big-company assumptions with them: usage-based pricing, sales cycles, agents you cannot inspect, and enough configuration surface to lose a week before the first useful alert. The open-source route can be great, but Prometheus, Grafana, exporters, alert routing, and long-term storage still need someone to keep them healthy.
Fivenines exists for the teams in between. People running real server infrastructure who want server metrics, uptime checks, network visibility, cron monitoring, incidents, status pages, and vulnerability scanning without assembling a platform from five tools.
Fivenines is built independently from Montpellier, without VC pressure or opaque enterprise pricing. The agent is open-source. Pricing is meant to be boring. Support is direct. When something is unclear, you can email and get an answer from the person building the product.
The goal is simple: give engineers a monitoring platform they can understand, trust, and leave running while they get back to shipping.