Alternatives to Upptime

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

  • 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 runs on your own server as one container with SQLite, adding many monitor types and over ninety notification services instead of relying on GitHub Actions.

  • gatus

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hostedWeb

    Gatus is a self-hosted health dashboard with alerting, configured from a single YAML file, removing the dependence on GitHub service availability and Actions limits.

  • Kener

    Publish service availability with a configurable status-page application.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Kener is a self-hosted, MIT-licensed status page application combining monitoring with public displays and incident communication, rather than running on GitHub Pages.

  • Statusnook

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

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Statusnook combines endpoint checks with a public status page from a self-hosted application, but the server must stay available during the outages it reports.

  • Peekaping

    Self-hosted uptime monitor with status pages and alert notifications.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hostedWeb

    Peekaping is a self-hosted uptime monitor with status pages and alert notifications on a Go and React stack, a younger project with a smaller community.

  • Vigil

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

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Vigil monitors services and publishes a self-hosted status page with incident notifications, licensed MPL-2.0, and needs hosting instead of GitHub infrastructure.

  • cState

    Publish a service status page generated as a static website.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostedWeb

    cState keeps the static-site approach, building the status page with Hugo from editable files, but automatic health checking requires a separate monitoring integration.

  • Cachet

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hostedWeb

    Cachet is a self-hosted status page with incidents, maintenance and subscriber notifications, needing PHP 8.3, Composer and a database, and has no built-in checks.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.