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Uptime Kuma vs SmokePing: catalog facts
Uptime Kuma	SmokePing
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted	Linux, Web, Self-hosted
Monitors HTTP, TCP, ping, DNS, Docker containers and more More than ninety notification services, including most chat apps	Shows latency distribution and loss, not just an average Probe types cover DNS, HTTP, SSH and more, not only ping
Runs from one place, so it cannot tell you about regional outages NFS and other network filesystems are explicitly unsupported for its data	Perl application with a dated interface Configuration is a text file
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: GPL-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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