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Open-source alternative to Pingdom

Uptime Kuma is a free, open-source Pingdom alternative that checks your websites as often as every 20 seconds. Pingdom prices by the number of checks; self-hosted Uptime Kuma has no limit, though it checks from your one server.

1 alternative Free app Our pick: Uptime Kuma

At a glance

App Good for Code Import from Pingdom Ease of use
Uptime Kuma Watching websites and online services, with a public status page Code Open source Import from Pingdom No Easy

Why look for an alternative to Pingdom?

Pingdom, from SolarWinds, monitors whether websites are up and how fast they load, with checks from locations around the world, transaction checks and real-user monitoring.

Teams look for an alternative because Pingdom is priced by the number of checks, so watching every site, API and service gets expensive, and many only need to know quickly when something is down. A self-hosted Uptime Kuma checks as many services as you like, as often as every 20 seconds, with no price per check.

How Uptime Kuma compares

Uptime Kuma

Know the moment your website goes down, and tell customers.

Checks websites, APIs, ports, DNS, databases and more as often as every 20 seconds, keeps response-time charts, and alerts you through over 90 services. It checks from one place, your server, rather than from many locations, and has no real-user monitoring.

What you gain
  • No price per check, per site or per status page
  • Check as many websites as you like, as often as every 20 seconds
  • Over 90 ways to be alerted, all included
What is different
  • It checks from one place, your server, not from many locations around the world
  • If the server it runs on goes down, it cannot alert you, so run it somewhere else
  • One admin account; there are no separate logins for colleagues
Easy Open source · MIT
Deploy Uptime Kuma About Uptime Kuma

Moving from Pingdom

There is no import from Pingdom, but adding a monitor takes seconds: paste the address, choose how often to check, and pick who gets alerted. Set up your alert channels first, such as email, Slack or Telegram. Run Uptime Kuma on a different server from the sites it watches, so it can still alert you when they go down.

Questions

What is the best open-source alternative to Pingdom?

Uptime Kuma is the free, open-source alternative to Pingdom for uptime monitoring in the catalogue today. Checks websites, APIs, ports, DNS, databases and more as often as every 20 seconds, keeps response-time charts, and alerts you through over 90 services. It checks from one place, your server, rather than from many locations, and has no real-user monitoring.

Should Uptime Kuma run on the same server as my website?

No. If that server goes down, Uptime Kuma goes down with it and cannot alert you. Run it on a separate server.

Can Uptime Kuma check from several countries?

No, it checks from wherever its server is. To check from more places, run a second copy in another region.

Is it really free?

Yes, the app is free. To run them you need Cloudgate and a server. Use hosted Cloudgate, which can also provide the server, or install Cloudgate on a server of your own for free. Cloudgate's plans and prices are at cloudgate.octabyte.io/pricing. One server can run several apps.

Do I need a developer?

No. Cloudgate installs the app on your server and gives it a secure web address. You use it in your browser.