Alternatives to Peekaping

Self-hosted uptime monitor with status pages and alert notifications. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Peekaping.

  • Uptime Kuma

    A self-hosted uptime monitor that pings your sites and services and tells you the moment one stops answering.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxWebSelf-hosted

    Uptime Kuma is the more established tool Peekaping is modelled on, with more than ninety notification services and a larger community, though it uses more resources on small servers.

  • gatus

    Developer-oriented health dashboard with alerting, configured from a YAML file.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hostedWeb

    Gatus declares checks with status code, response time and body conditions in one YAML file, with alerting to common services, but has no editing interface.

  • Kener

    Publish service availability with a configurable status-page application.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Kener is MIT-licensed and combines monitoring with public status displays and incident communication, requiring hosting and setup of the monitored endpoints.

  • Statusnook

    Monitor endpoints and publish their status from a self-hosted application.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Statusnook combines endpoint checks with a public status page under MIT, but needs a server that stays available during the outages it reports.

  • Vigil

    Monitor services and publish their availability through a self-hosted status page.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Vigil is MPL-2.0 licensed, tracking distributed service status with a self-hosted status page and sending incident notifications to your team.

  • Upptime

    Use GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages to run an uptime monitor and status site.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Upptime runs on GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages instead of your own server, stores history in Git, and depends on GitHub availability and Actions usage limits.

  • Tianji

    Combine website analytics, uptime checks and server-status monitoring.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Tianji combines uptime checks with website analytics and server-status monitoring in one Apache-2.0 application, requiring deployment and configuration of data collection.

  • Checkmate

    A self-hosted monitor that tracks uptime, response times, server hardware and incidents with notifications.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Checkmate combines uptime checks with server hardware monitoring and deploys with Docker or Helm charts, backed by a large contributor base.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Peekaping as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Blackbox Exporter

    A Prometheus exporter that probes endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, ICMP and gRPC.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hosted

    Peekaping is a self-hosted uptime monitor with status pages and alerts on a Go and React stack, independent of Prometheus but a younger project.

  • Cachet

    Self-hosted status page for publishing service health and incidents.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hostedWeb

    Peekaping is an MIT-licensed uptime monitor with status pages and alerts on a Go and React stack, a younger project with a smaller integration list.

  • cState

    Publish a service status page generated as a static website.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostedWeb

    Peekaping is an MIT-licensed uptime monitor with status pages and alert notifications on a Go and React stack, a younger project with fewer integrations.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.