Alternatives to Vigil

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

  • 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 an MIT-licensed monitor for HTTP, TCP, ping, DNS and Docker with over ninety notification services and public status pages on your own domain.

  • Kener

    Publish service availability with a configurable status-page application.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Kener combines monitoring with public status displays and incident communication, and is licensed MIT instead of MPL-2.0.

  • Statusnook

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

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Statusnook pairs endpoint checks with a public status page in a deployment-focused, MIT-licensed self-hosted application.

  • gatus

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hostedWeb

    Gatus defines checks and alerting in a single YAML file with conditions on status code, response time and body content, under Apache-2.0.

  • Upptime

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

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Upptime runs checks through GitHub Actions and publishes on GitHub Pages with history in Git, removing the need for your own server.

  • Peekaping

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hostedWeb

    Peekaping offers uptime monitoring, status pages and alert notifications on a Go and React stack, a young MIT-licensed project with a smaller community.

  • Cachet

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hostedWeb

    Cachet manages components, incidents, maintenance and subscriber notifications in a self-hosted status page, needs PHP 8.3 and a database, and has no built-in checks.

  • cState

    Publish a service status page generated as a static website.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostedWeb

    cState generates a static status site with Hugo from editable incident files, requiring a separate monitoring integration for automatic health checks.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.