Alternatives to UptimeRobot
A hosted uptime monitoring service with 50 free monitors, alerts and public status pages. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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UptimeRobot
A hosted uptime monitoring service with 50 free monitors, alerts and public status pages.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as UptimeRobot.
Better Stack Uptime
A hosted uptime monitor that checks websites, APIs, SSL certificates and domains and sends alerts.
Better Stack Uptime adds Playwright browser checks, mail and DNS checks and failure screenshots, with a free status page but 3-minute intervals on the free plan.
StatusCake
A hosted monitoring service for website uptime, page speed, SSL certificates, domains and servers.
StatusCake is also freemium and hosted, adding page speed and server checks alongside uptime, SSL and domains, though its free tier limits are not stated.
Pingdom
A hosted website monitoring service with uptime, page speed, transaction checks and real user monitoring.
Pingdom is paid with no free plan beyond the trial, and adds transaction checks, real user monitoring and page speed monitoring for business sites.
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 down to 15 seconds and downtime confirmed from two locations before alerting.
WebGazer
A hosted service for website, API, port and cron job monitoring with public status pages.
WebGazer matches the 50 free monitors with HTTP, API, port and cron checks and status pages, but free checks run every 5 minutes.
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 performance checks, with EU hosting and a signable DPA.
Statping-ng
A self-hosted status page and uptime monitor, maintained as a community fork of Statping.
Statping-ng is open-source GPL-3.0 software that you host and maintain yourself, providing uptime checks and a status page with notifier plugins instead of a hosted account.
Hyperping
A hosted service for public and private status pages with built-in uptime monitoring.
Hyperping centres on public and private status pages with password or SAML SSO access, with built-in uptime monitoring, a Terraform provider and Statuspage import.
Also worth comparing
These listings name UptimeRobot 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.
UptimeRobot offers 50 free monitors with alerts and public status pages, but it has no log management or on-call scheduling.
Better Stack Status Page
A hosted status page service with subscriber updates, custom domains and built-in uptime monitoring.
UptimeRobot includes public status pages with its hosted uptime monitoring, offering 50 free monitors plus an API and mobile app.
Checkly
A code-first monitoring platform that runs Playwright browser checks and API tests from global locations.
UptimeRobot gives 50 free uptime monitors with status pages and a CLI, but it focuses on uptime checks rather than scripted Playwright end-to-end tests.
Cronitor
A hosted monitoring service for cron jobs, background workers, websites and APIs, with failure alerts.
UptimeRobot includes cron job monitors among its check types with 50 free monitors and public status pages, but it does not keep output from each run.
Dead Man's Snitch
A hosted monitoring service that alerts you when a cron job or scheduled task fails to run.
UptimeRobot supports cron job monitors among many check types, with 50 free monitors, public status pages, an API, CLI and mobile app.
HetrixTools
A hosted uptime, server metrics and blacklist monitoring service with a free tier and instant alerts.
UptimeRobot offers 50 free monitors with port and cron checks, public status pages and a mobile app, but multi-location checks may need a paid plan.
Instatus
A hosted status page service with service monitoring, alerts and team incident handling.
UptimeRobot is mainly an uptime monitor with 50 free monitors that includes public status pages, but has fewer team incident features.
OneUptime
An open-source platform for uptime monitoring, status pages, incidents, on-call alerting and observability.
UptimeRobot is a hosted, proprietary uptime monitor with 50 free monitors and public status pages, but it cannot be self-hosted and does not cover on-call or logs.
OpenStatus
An open-source status page and uptime monitoring service that you can use hosted or self-host.
UptimeRobot is a hosted, proprietary uptime monitor with 50 free monitors and public status pages, but it cannot be self-hosted or managed through Terraform.
Site24x7
A hosted monitoring service for websites, servers, networks and cloud platforms with alerts on downtime.
UptimeRobot gives 50 free monitors with status pages, an API and a mobile app, focused on uptime rather than servers and cloud platforms.
Statuspage
Atlassian's hosted service for publishing status pages and notifying users about incidents and maintenance.
UptimeRobot is a hosted uptime monitor that includes public status pages and 50 free monitors, but lacks subscriber notifications and third-party component status.
Uptime.com
A hosted monitoring service for websites, APIs and cron jobs, with alerting and 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.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
TrackSSL
A hosted service that monitors SSL/TLS certificates and sends alerts before they expire or change.
Is It Down Right Now
A web tool that checks whether a website is down for everyone or only for you.
Downdetector
A website that shows whether online services, networks and games are down, based on real-time user reports.
