Self-host OxMgr
v0.6.0Lightweight cross-platform process manager in Rust
- Stars
- 294
What is OxMgr?
Oxmgr is a modern process manager written in Rust that manages any long-running executable — Node.js, Python, Go, Rust binaries, shell scripts — across Linux, macOS, and Windows. It provides a PM2-compatible workflow with a declarative TOML configuration (oxfile.toml) that supports idempotent apply operations, per-process health checks with automatic restart, CPU and memory limits via cgroup v2, crash-loop protection, file-watch auto-restart, Git pull and webhook-driven deployments, and an interactive terminal UI showing live CPU/RAM metrics. It runs as a lightweight daemon with persistent local state, and offers a foreground runtime mode (oxmgr runtime) for containers and Kubernetes that forwards logs to stdout/stderr. The project is MIT-licensed with no telemetry.
Should you self-host OxMgr?
OxMgr scores 49/100 on selfhost.directory (how scoring works) and ranks #6 of 20 in Application Management. It has 294 GitHub stars.
It shipped 12 stable releases in the past year. The latest, v0.6.0, came out on 27 October 2026. New versions land roughly every 5 days.
Setup is easy: most people get it running in one sitting. It is MIT-licensed and written mostly in Rust.
Its closest alternative on selfhost.directory is hot-updater (62/100, 1 797 stars). It scores higher overall, so compare the two before you pick. See OxMgr vs hot-updater side by side.
Features
- Container runtime mode
- Crash-Loop Protection
- Cross-platform
- Declarative Configuration
- File Watch & Auto-Restart
- Git Pull & Webhook Deploys
- Health Checks & Auto-Restart
- Log Management
- PM2 compatibility
- Process management
- Prometheus Metrics
- Resource LimitsLinux only
- Service Bundles
- Service Installation
- Terminal UI
OxMgr README
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