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Red Kite Agent

Red Kite Agent is a self-hosted monitoring agent for Unraid that keeps your Red Kite hub aware each machine is alive and quietly healthy.

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Red Kite Agent is a self-hosted monitoring agent for Unraid that keeps your Red Kite hub aware each machine is alive and quietly healthy. Every few minutes it sends a heartbeat so the alarm is the absence of a message, not the presence of one, which means a server that loses power, loses its line, or is switched off is noticed without any inbound firewall ports being opened. It also reports issues that are easy to miss: parity sync errors, a disabled disk being emulated from parity, climbing SMART attributes, filesystems remounted read-only, and memory errors the machine corrects without saying so. Checks leave sleeping disks alone (SMART reads use standby mode and temperatures come from Unraid's cached figures), making it suited to homelab and NAS setups where you want monitoring that does not wake a spun-down array.

Platform availability

Available on 1 of 6 install platforms

  • Unraid
  • TrueNAS (not listed)
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS (not listed)
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm (not listed)

Also on GitHub

Health score

42/100 Fair

Maintained
72last commit 24 days ago
Popular
00 GitHub stars
Easy to install
351 install platform, install notes, Docker image
Light to run
No data

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

How is this calculated?

A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today

GitHub stars
0
Open issues
0
Last commit
2026-09-11
Activity
stale

Checked yesterday - source: GitHub (redkite-info/redkite-agent)

Resources & Compatibility

Requirements not published yet.

Checked 7 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

  • Hub required You need a Red Kite hub before this agent does anything: Red Kite is self-hosted, so install and run the hub yourself first (there is no hosted service or account). The agent only sends outbound heartbeats; nothing ever connects inwards, so no ports, VPN, or port forwarding are needed. source

Fetched yesterday - each note links to its source

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Checked 5 days ago - source: AlternativeTo

Common questions

Do I need to open inbound ports, a VPN, or port forwarding for Unraid?

No; the agent only sends outbound heartbeats to the hub, so nothing connects inwards.

Do I need to install or configure a Red Kite hub before the Unraid agent works?

Yes. You must install and run the self-hosted hub first; there is no hosted service or account.

Can the hub send the agent commands or tell it to run code?

No. The agent's only network action is an outbound check-in, and the reply may carry only a bounded suggested interval and a replacement token.

Does the agent send file names, process names, logs, or drive serial numbers?

No. It sends figures only, not file names, user names, process command lines, log message text, or drive serial numbers.

Why does the Unraid agent container run as root?

The container runs as root because SMART reads use an ioctl that requires CAP_SYS_RAWIO. Everything the container can reach is mounted read-only, and it holds no capability that was not explicitly given.

Why is there no Docker HEALTHCHECK?

The Dockerfile intentionally has no HEALTHCHECK. The hub is the healthcheck.

Answers sourced from github.com, redkite.info

Community

Collected 2 days ago - public community threads