Deploy and Host Checkmate on Railway

Uptime, pagespeed, hardware, and incident alerts in one self-hosted dashboard. No per-monitor pricing. No data leaving your infrastructure.

About Hosting Checkmate

Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted monitoring platform for uptime checks, infrastructure metrics, PageSpeed monitoring, Docker health checks, incident management, and public status pages. Deploying Checkmate on Railway gives you a managed environment for running the application without maintaining your own servers or Kubernetes cluster. A typical deployment includes the Checkmate web application and a MongoDB database, with optional Capture agents installed on external servers to collect hardware metrics like CPU, memory, disk, and network usage. Railway simplifies deployment, scaling, networking, and environment management so you can get a production-ready monitoring stack running in minutes.

Common Use Cases

Monitor website uptime, API availability, SSL expiration, and response times -Track infrastructure metrics like CPU, memory, disk, Docker containers, and network activity -Create public status pages and incident alerts for customers or internal teams

Dependencies for Checkmate Hosting

MongoDB database for application data and monitor history
Persistent volume/storage for logs and monitoring data

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

# Example environment variables
MONGO_URL=mongodb://mongo:27017/checkmate
APP_URL=https://your-domain.com
JWT_SECRET=replace-with-secure-secret

Why Deploy Checkmate on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it. By deploying Checkmate on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.