Product Information
What is Portracker?
A self-hosted real-time port monitoring and discovery tool.
By automatically discovering services on your systems, portracker delivers live, accurate network maps. It helps eliminate manual tracking in spreadsheets and prevents deployment failures due to port conflicts.
Key Features:
**Automatic Port Discovery**: Scans host systems to automatically find and display running services and their ports—no manual data entry required.
**Platform-Specific Collectors**: Includes dedicated collectors for Docker and TrueNAS to gather rich contextual information from hosts.
**Lightweight & Standalone**: Runs as a single process with an embedded SQLite database, eliminating the need for external database dependencies like PostgreSQL or Redis.
**Peer Monitoring**: Add other portracker instances as peers to view all servers, containers, and VMs from a single dashboard.
**Hierarchical Grouping**: Organizes servers in a parent-child structure, ideal for nested setups like portracker instances for VMs under their physical hosts.
**Enhanced TrueNAS Discovery**: An optional TrueNAS API key allows portracker to discover running VMs* and collect enhanced system details such as OS version and uptime.
**Modern & Responsive UI**: A clean dashboard with light/dark modes, real-time filtering, and multiple data layout views (list, grid, table).
How to use Portracker?
Portracker is a self-hosted real-time port monitoring and discovery tool that automates service detection on systems, providing accurate network mapping to prevent port conflicts and deployment failures.
Core Functions of Portracker
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Usage Scenarios of Portracker
- Eliminate the need to manually track ports in spreadsheets.
- Prevent deployment failures due to port conflicts.
- Centrally monitor all servers, containers, and VMs from a single dashboard.
- Manage servers hierarchically, such as categorizing VM instances under their physical hosts.
- Automatically scan host systems to discover and display running services and their ports.
- Discover running VMs and collect enhanced system information like OS version and uptime.
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