Alternatives to StatusCake
A hosted monitoring service for website uptime, page speed, SSL certificates, domains and servers. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
StatusCake
A hosted monitoring service for website uptime, page speed, SSL certificates, domains and servers.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as StatusCake.
UptimeRobot
A hosted uptime monitoring service with 50 free monitors, alerts and public status pages.
UptimeRobot is also hosted and freemium, with a clearly stated 50 free monitors, port and cron checks, public 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 is a paid SolarWinds service with no free plan beyond the trial, adding transaction checks that simulate user flows and real user monitoring.
Better Stack Uptime
A hosted uptime monitor that checks websites, APIs, SSL certificates and domains and sends alerts.
Better Stack Uptime covers HTTP, API, SSL, domain, DNS and mail checks with Playwright browser checks and screenshots on failure, with free checks at 3-minute intervals.
updown.io
A hosted website monitor that checks HTTP, TCP and ICMP endpoints, certificates and cron jobs.
updown.io is paid and priced by usage, with intervals from 15 seconds to 1 hour, two-location confirmation before alerts, and certificate, domain and cron monitoring.
Oh Dear
A hosted website health monitor covering uptime, SSL, DNS, cron jobs, broken links and performance.
Oh Dear has no permanent free plan but crawls whole sites for broken links and adds DNS and cron checks, EU hosting with a signable DPA, and status pages.
WebGazer
A hosted service for website, API, port and cron job monitoring with public status pages.
WebGazer offers 50 free monitors with HTTP, API, port and cron heartbeat checks and hosted status pages, though free checks run only every 5 minutes.
Statping-ng
A self-hosted status page and uptime monitor, maintained as a community fork of Statping.
Statping-ng is free, open-source GPL-3.0 software you host and maintain yourself, giving a status page and uptime checks without a hosted account, but with irregular community development.
Checkly
A code-first monitoring platform that runs Playwright browser checks and API tests from global locations.
Checkly is code-first, defining monitors in version control and running Playwright browser checks and API tests, so it suits developers more than non-technical users.
Also worth comparing
These listings name StatusCake as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Better Stack Status Page
A hosted status page service with subscriber updates, custom domains and built-in uptime monitoring.
StatusCake provides status pages alongside uptime, page speed, SSL and domain monitoring, with a free tier whose limits are not stated.
HetrixTools
A hosted uptime, server metrics and blacklist monitoring service with a free tier and instant alerts.
StatusCake covers uptime, page speed, SSL, domain and server checks with status pages, though its free tier limits are not stated on the homepage.
Hyperping
A hosted service for public and private status pages with built-in uptime monitoring.
StatusCake centres on uptime, page speed, SSL and domain checks with status pages added, and has a free tier available without a sales call.
OneUptime
An open-source platform for uptime monitoring, status pages, incidents, on-call alerting and observability.
StatusCake is a hosted freemium monitor for uptime, page speed, SSL and servers with status pages, but it is proprietary, hosted only and has no on-call features.
OpenStatus
An open-source status page and uptime monitoring service that you can use hosted or self-host.
StatusCake is a hosted freemium monitor covering uptime, page speed, SSL, domains and servers with status pages, but it is proprietary and offers no self-hosting or CLI.
Site24x7
A hosted monitoring service for websites, servers, networks and cloud platforms with alerts on downtime.
StatusCake covers uptime, page speed, SSL, domain and server checks with status pages and a free tier, with less emphasis on cloud and network monitoring.
TrackSSL
A hosted service that monitors SSL/TLS certificates and sends alerts before they expire or change.
StatusCake monitors SSL certificates as part of a wider hosted service with uptime, page speed, domain and server checks and status pages, with a free tier.
Uptime.com
A hosted monitoring service for websites, APIs and cron jobs, with alerting and status pages.
StatusCake covers uptime, page speed, SSL, domain and server checks with status pages, and has a free tier available without a sales call.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Cronitor
A hosted monitoring service for cron jobs, background workers, websites and APIs, with failure alerts.
Instatus
A hosted status page service with service monitoring, alerts and team incident handling.
GTmetrix
An online page speed tester with waterfall charts, Core Web Vitals, scheduled monitoring and alerts.
Cert Spotter
A hosted Certificate Transparency monitor that alerts on unauthorized, expiring and invalid SSL certificates for your domains.
