Alternatives to Better Stack Uptime
A hosted uptime monitor that checks websites, APIs, SSL certificates and domains and sends alerts. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Better Stack Uptime
A hosted uptime monitor that checks websites, APIs, SSL certificates and domains and sends alerts.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Better Stack Uptime.
UptimeRobot
A hosted uptime monitoring service with 50 free monitors, alerts and public status pages.
UptimeRobot gives 50 monitors on its free plan with ports and cron checks, status pages, an API, CLI and mobile app.
Pingdom
A hosted website monitoring service with uptime, page speed, transaction checks and real user monitoring.
Pingdom adds real user monitoring and transaction checks to uptime and speed monitoring, with no free plan beyond the trial.
StatusCake
A hosted monitoring service for website uptime, page speed, SSL certificates, domains and servers.
StatusCake covers uptime, page speed, SSL, domain and server checks with status pages and a free tier that needs no sales call.
Checkly
A code-first monitoring platform that runs Playwright browser checks and API tests from global locations.
Checkly runs Playwright browser checks and API tests defined as code in your repository, which suits developers more than non-coders.
updown.io
A hosted website monitor that checks HTTP, TCP and ICMP endpoints, certificates and cron jobs.
updown.io is a paid, usage-priced monitor with intervals from 15 seconds, two-location confirmation before alerting, and certificate and cron checks.
WebGazer
A hosted service for website, API, port and cron job monitoring with public status pages.
WebGazer covers HTTP, API, port and cron monitoring with status pages, and its free allowance of 50 monitors runs every 5 minutes.
Oh Dear
A hosted website health monitor covering uptime, SSL, DNS, cron jobs, broken links and performance.
Oh Dear adds whole-site broken link crawling to uptime, SSL, DNS and cron checks, is EU-hosted, and has no permanent free plan.
Cronitor
A hosted monitoring service for cron jobs, background workers, websites and APIs, with failure alerts.
Cronitor focuses on cron jobs and background workers, adding uptime and SSL checks from 12+ locations with Slack and PagerDuty alerts.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Better Stack Uptime as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Better Stack
A hosted observability service combining uptime monitoring, logs, on-call alerts, incident management and status pages.
Better Stack Uptime covers only the uptime, SSL and cron monitoring part with a status page, dropping the logs and incident management of the full platform.
Cert Spotter
A hosted Certificate Transparency monitor that alerts on unauthorized, expiring and invalid SSL certificates for your domains.
Better Stack Uptime includes SSL certificate and domain expiry checks within a freemium uptime monitor, rather than watching Certificate Transparency logs.
Dead Man's Snitch
A hosted monitoring service that alerts you when a cron job or scheduled task fails to run.
Better Stack Uptime includes cron heartbeat monitoring alongside website, SSL and DNS checks and a status page, but it is web only without dedicated mobile apps.
HetrixTools
A hosted uptime, server metrics and blacklist monitoring service with a free tier and instant alerts.
Better Stack Uptime adds Playwright transaction checks, screenshots on failure and a status page on its free plan, which is limited to 3-minute intervals.
OpenStatus
An open-source status page and uptime monitoring service that you can use hosted or self-host.
Better Stack Uptime adds SSL, DNS, domain, Playwright and cron checks with a free status page, but it is proprietary and hosted only, with 3-minute free intervals.
Statping-ng
A self-hosted status page and uptime monitor, maintained as a community fork of Statping.
Better Stack Uptime is hosted only and adds SSL, domain, DNS and Playwright browser checks with a free status page, though free checks run at 3-minute intervals.
TrackSSL
A hosted service that monitors SSL/TLS certificates and sends alerts before they expire or change.
Better Stack Uptime includes SSL and domain expiry checks alongside HTTP, API, DNS and cron monitoring, with a free plan limited to 3-minute intervals.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Better Stack Status Page
A hosted status page service with subscriber updates, custom domains and built-in uptime monitoring.
Hyperping
A hosted service for public and private status pages with built-in uptime monitoring.
Instatus
A hosted status page service with service monitoring, alerts and team incident handling.
