UptimeRobot
Website and service availability monitoring with alerts. Free plan with 50 monitors checked every 5 minutes; the Solo plan costs €9 a month billed annually (€10 monthly) for checks every minute.
Uptime Kuma, free software, does the same job: checks every minute or less, alerts by email, Telegram or other channels, and a public status page. The one thing to keep in mind: a monitor hosted on the same server as the site it watches goes down with it. Run it on a different machine, a small separate VPS or a home server, and the replacement is complete for a few euros.
What you lose
- Monitoring from outside your own infrastructure
- Nothing to host or update
- Checks from several locations around the world
Existing alternatives to UptimeRobot
- Uptime KumaOpen source
Self-hosted monitoring tool (MIT): HTTP, TCP and ping checks, multi-channel notifications and status pages.
The prompt to build it yourself
Set up self-hosted availability monitoring to replace UptimeRobot. Do not build a tool: deploy Uptime Kuma. To do: - A docker-compose.yml with Uptime Kuma, volume in ./data, automatic restart. - Caddy in front, automatic HTTPS on a domain that I will give you, with authentication enabled. - The monitors for the sites and services that I list, with checks every 60 seconds. - Alert notifications by email or Telegram that I choose, with a test alert. - A public status page if I ask for one. - A backup of the data volume, copied off the server. Out of scope: multi-region checks. README: launch, adding a monitor, update, and a reminder that this must run on a different machine than the sites it watches.
Frequently asked questions
- Can UptimeRobot be replaced by a custom-built tool?
- casevibecode verdict: Replaceable. Uptime Kuma, free software, does the same job: checks every minute or less, alerts by email, Telegram or other channels, and a public status page. The one thing to keep in mind: a monitor hosted on the same server as the site it watches goes down with it. Run it on a different machine, a small separate VPS or a home server, and the replacement is complete for a few euros.
- What is UptimeRobot used for?
- Website and service availability monitoring with alerts. Free plan with 50 monitors checked every 5 minutes; the Solo plan costs €9 a month billed annually (€10 monthly) for checks every minute.
- What alternatives to UptimeRobot already exist?
- Uptime Kuma (open source). Options to compare before committing to a custom build.
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