Alternatives to Uptime.com
A hosted monitoring service for websites, APIs and cron jobs, with alerting and status pages. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Uptime.com
A hosted monitoring service for websites, APIs and cron jobs, with alerting and status pages.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Uptime.com.
Pingdom
A hosted website monitoring service with uptime, page speed, transaction checks and real user monitoring.
Pingdom offers transaction checks, real user monitoring and page speed monitoring from SolarWinds, with no free plan beyond a trial.
UptimeRobot
A hosted uptime monitoring service with 50 free monitors, alerts and public status pages.
UptimeRobot gives 50 free monitors with status pages, API, CLI and a mobile app, though multi-location checks may need a paid plan.
Better Stack Uptime
A hosted uptime monitor that checks websites, APIs, SSL certificates and domains and sends alerts.
Better Stack Uptime is freemium, covering HTTP, API, SSL, DNS and cron checks with failure screenshots and a status page, with free checks limited to 3-minute intervals.
Site24x7
A hosted monitoring service for websites, servers, networks and cloud platforms with alerts on downtime.
Site24x7 extends monitoring to servers, networks, applications and cloud platforms, and includes a free plan alongside paid tiers.
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 has a free tier available without a sales call.
updown.io
A hosted website monitor that checks HTTP, TCP and ICMP endpoints, certificates and cron jobs.
updown.io is a simpler usage-priced monitor with HTTP, TCP, ICMP, certificate and cron checks, without real user monitoring or mobile apps.
WebGazer
A hosted service for website, API, port and cron job monitoring with public status pages.
WebGazer targets small teams and indie developers with 50 free monitors, cron heartbeat checks and hosted status pages, but lacks the real user monitoring and mobile apps.
OneUptime
An open-source platform for uptime monitoring, status pages, incidents, on-call alerting and observability.
OneUptime is open source under Apache-2.0 and can be self-hosted, bundling status pages, on-call alerting, logs, metrics and traces with uptime monitoring.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Uptime.com 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.
Uptime.com is a paid hosted service with website, API, cron and real user monitoring plus status pages and mobile apps, without logs or on-call scheduling.
Checkly
A code-first monitoring platform that runs Playwright browser checks and API tests from global locations.
Uptime.com is a paid hosted service covering website, API, cron and real user monitoring with built-in status pages and mobile apps.
Cronitor
A hosted monitoring service for cron jobs, background workers, websites and APIs, with failure alerts.
Uptime.com is a paid business service covering website, API, cron job and real user monitoring, with built-in status pages and mobile apps for iPhone and Android.
Dead Man's Snitch
A hosted monitoring service that alerts you when a cron job or scheduled task fails to run.
Uptime.com is a paid hosted service adding website, API and real user monitoring to cron checks, with status pages and mobile apps.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Status.io
A hosted status page service for publishing incidents and maintenance and notifying subscribers.
Instatus
A hosted status page service with service monitoring, alerts and team incident handling.
Hyperping
A hosted service for public and private status pages with built-in uptime monitoring.
StatusPal
A hosted service that combines status pages, uptime monitoring and incident management.
