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Indie alternatives to Pingdom

9 products made by independent developers and small teams that do what Pingdom does, 7 of them with a free plan. Free and open-source options come first.

At a glance

The alternatives

1. Upptime

Open-source uptime monitor and status page powered by GitHub

Upptime uses GitHub Actions to check your sites, GitHub Issues for incident reports and GitHub Pages for a status page. It is free and open source.

Free · Web, Self-hosted · Website ↗

2. Better Stack

Uptime monitoring, incident management, logs and status pages

Better Stack combines uptime checks, on-call alerting, status pages, log management and dashboards in one service.

Free plan · Web, API · Website ↗

3. Checkly

Synthetic monitoring with Playwright and API checks

Checkly runs Playwright browser checks and API checks from many locations, configured as code alongside your app.

Free plan · Web · Website ↗

4. Cronitor

Monitoring for cron jobs, websites, APIs and status pages

Cronitor monitors cron jobs, background workers, websites and APIs, and alerts you when something breaks. It also offers hosted status pages.

Free plan · Web, API · Website ↗

5. HetrixTools

Uptime, server and blacklist monitoring

HetrixTools offers uptime monitoring, server resource monitoring and IP/domain blacklist monitoring with alerts and status pages.

Free plan · Web, API · Website ↗

6. Hyperping

Uptime monitoring and status pages for websites and APIs

Hyperping monitors websites, APIs and cron jobs from multiple regions and pairs the checks with hosted status pages and on-call alerts.

Free plan · Web, API · Website ↗

7. UptimeRobot

Website and server uptime monitoring with alerts

UptimeRobot checks websites, ports, keywords and cron heartbeats at intervals and alerts you when something goes down.

Free plan · Web, iOS, Android, API · Website ↗

8. Oh Dear

Website monitoring: uptime, SSL, broken links and more

Oh Dear monitors websites for downtime, expiring SSL certificates, broken links, mixed content, DNS changes and scheduled tasks, and can host status pages.

Paid · Web, API · Website ↗

9. updown.io

Simple pay-as-you-go website uptime monitoring

updown.io checks websites and APIs at regular intervals and alerts you on downtime or SSL problems, with simple public status pages.

Paid · Web, API · Website ↗

Questions

Is there a free alternative to Pingdom?

Yes. 7 of the 9 indie alternatives listed here have a free plan or are free: Upptime, Better Stack, Checkly, Cronitor and 3 more.

Is there an open-source alternative to Pingdom?

Upptime is open source.

Can I self-host an alternative to Pingdom?

Yes: Upptime can run on your own server.

Which Pingdom alternatives work on Mac, Windows, iPhone or Android?

On iPhone and iPad: UptimeRobot. On Android: UptimeRobot.

What makes these alternatives to Pingdom “indie”?

They are built by independent developers or small teams rather than large companies. Each one is listed because it does the same core job as Pingdom.

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