Infrastructure & DevOps

Checkmate

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark checked 2026-09-20 · unchanged since 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible

Self-hosted, open-source infrastructure monitoring for teams who value control.

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Legit.Show scored Checkmate 84/100 on 2026-09-20, measured across 5 of 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/checkmate-so/2026-09-20

Is Checkmate production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Checkmate 84 out of 100 — the simple average of its 5 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Checkmate (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. 5 of the seven frames returned a score; Performance and Accessibility were not measurable on this service and are recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Security — 45/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 100/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 75/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 309 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

DevOps teams · Infrastructure teams · Small to medium businesses · Teams valuing control · Self-hosted users

Pricing

Free forever, self-hosted

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