Alternatives to WebGazer
A hosted service for website, API, port and cron job monitoring with public status pages. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
WebGazer
A hosted service for website, API, port and cron job monitoring with public status pages.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as WebGazer.
UptimeRobot
A hosted uptime monitoring service with 50 free monitors, alerts and public status pages.
UptimeRobot also offers 50 free monitors with status pages, plus a CLI and 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 adds SSL, domain, DNS and Playwright transaction checks with screenshots on failure, but the free plan uses 3-minute intervals.
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, though free tier limits are not stated on its homepage.
updown.io
A hosted website monitor that checks HTTP, TCP and ICMP endpoints, certificates and cron jobs.
updown.io adds certificate and domain expiry checks with intervals down to 15 seconds, but is paid by usage with no free tier mentioned.
Cronitor
A hosted monitoring service for cron jobs, background workers, websites and APIs, with failure alerts.
Cronitor puts more weight on cron jobs and background workers, keeping output and metrics from each run, alongside uptime checks from 12+ locations.
Oh Dear
A hosted website health monitor covering uptime, SSL, DNS, cron jobs, broken links and performance.
Oh Dear adds broken link crawling, DNS and performance checks with EU hosting and a DPA, but has no permanent free plan.
Statping-ng
A self-hosted status page and uptime monitor, maintained as a community fork of Statping.
Statping-ng is a free GPL-3.0 self-hosted status page and uptime monitor, so you run and maintain the server yourself.
Better Stack
A hosted observability service combining uptime monitoring, logs, on-call alerts, incident management and status pages.
Better Stack bundles uptime monitoring with logs, on-call alerts and incident management, with larger data volumes on paid plans.
Also worth comparing
These listings name WebGazer 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.
WebGazer builds hosted status pages from its monitor data, with 50 free monitors checked every 5 minutes.
Checkly
A code-first monitoring platform that runs Playwright browser checks and API tests from global locations.
WebGazer monitors websites, APIs, ports and cron jobs with a free allowance of 50 monitors, but does not offer code-defined Playwright browser checks.
Dead Man's Snitch
A hosted monitoring service that alerts you when a cron job or scheduled task fails to run.
WebGazer provides heartbeat checks for scheduled jobs plus website and API monitoring with 50 free monitors, but free checks run only every 5 minutes.
HetrixTools
A hosted uptime, server metrics and blacklist monitoring service with a free tier and instant alerts.
WebGazer offers 50 free monitors covering HTTP, API, port and cron checks plus status pages, with free checks every 5 minutes and no blacklist monitoring.
Hyperping
A hosted service for public and private status pages with built-in uptime monitoring.
WebGazer builds hosted status pages from HTTP, API, port and cron monitors, with a free allowance of 50 monitors checked every 5 minutes.
Instatus
A hosted status page service with service monitoring, alerts and team incident handling.
WebGazer adds port and cron heartbeat monitoring to hosted status pages, with 50 free monitors checked every 5 minutes.
Pingdom
A hosted website monitoring service with uptime, page speed, transaction checks and real user monitoring.
WebGazer monitors websites, APIs, ports and cron jobs with status pages and a free allowance of 50 monitors, without real user monitoring.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
cron-job.org
A free hosted scheduler that calls URLs on a schedule, from once a minute to yearly.
