Owlette vs PM2
Owlette
owlette.app
PM2
pm2.keymetrics.ioSide by side
| Figure | Owlette | PM2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $20/mo | $79/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 6 |
| Spec score · Process Monitoring Software | 7.6 (#17) | 9.0 (#2) |
| Deployment | Owlette can deploy software, configurations, and content fleet-wide or to selected machines. | The deployment system provisions bare-metal servers, updates releases, executes commands, supports rollback and can target multiple hosts. |
| Monitoring | It provides live CPU, memory, GPU, and disk metrics with sparkline trend charts and email or webhook notifications. | PM2 Plus lists a web monitoring interface, application overview, issue tracking, custom metrics, server health checks, and Node.js V8 monitoring. |
| Security | The service uses TLS/HTTPS with HSTS, AES-256 encryption at rest, encrypted HTTP-only sessions, optional passkeys and two-factor authentication, machine-specific credential keys, role-based access controls, and database authorization rules. | The PM2 AI Assistant page says access to monitoring data is secured by OAuth with a PM2.io account. |
| Target users | The product is built for theme parks, digital signage, museums and galleries, live events, corporate AV, worship, virtual production, projector walls, and LED installations. | The site describes PM2 Runtime as an open-source process manager and PM2 Plus as monitoring for Node.js production applications. |
Plans
PM2
- PM2 RuntimeFree
- RuntimeFree
- Plus$79 a month
- PM2 Plus$79 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
- PM2 EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
PM2
PM2 is a daemon process manager for managing applications and keeping them online. PM2 Runtime is an open-source process manager; PM2 Plus adds monitoring for Node.js production applications. Runtime supports cluster mode, zero-downtime reloads, watch and restart, startup scripts, log management and memory-based reloads. For containers, pm2-runtime can run Node.js applications with process fallback, flow control, monitoring and source-map support. PM2 Plus lists a web monitoring interface, application overview, issue tracking, custom metrics, server health checks and Node.js V8 monitoring. Its alerts include email and Slack notifications, while Enterprise adds rule-based alerting. The AI Assistant connects Claude, Cursor and other MCP-compatible assistants to monitoring data through OAuth with a PM2.io account. Documentation covers Docker, cloud providers, Heroku, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Nginx and deployment workflows. Runtime costs nothing, and Plus costs $79 a month.