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Self-host UptimeRobot
External uptime / availability monitoring ·
Category: observability & analytics
UptimeRobot pings your URLs from multiple geographic regions and alerts you when they go down — HTTP, port, keyword, ping checks. The self-hostable replacements all do periodic probes + alert routing; what they don't replicate is UptimeRobot's geographically-distributed probe network (you only check from where your VPS sits).
UptimeRobot pricing anchor: Free tier 50 monitors @ 5min interval; Pro $7/mo for 60s interval + 50 monitors.
- GitHub
- ★ 86.5k · last commit today · 736 open issues
- License
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MIT - Setup time
- 5min docker run
- Monthly cost
- $3/mo VPS; SQLite-backed, runs on a Pi.
Migration sketch. `docker run -d --restart=always -p 3001:3001 -v uptime-kuma:/app/data --name uptime-kuma louislam/uptime-kuma:1`. UptimeRobot doesn't have a clean export — recreate monitors manually or use the community Python script that reads the UptimeRobot API and POSTs to Uptime Kuma's API. Native support for 90+ notification channels (Slack, Discord, Telegram, ntfy, Gotify, generic webhook); status pages bundled.
Good fit forMost use cases — easiest install, broadest notification options, bundled status pages.
Weak atSingle-region — checks come from one VPS. For multi-region probes, deploy multiple Uptime Kuma instances and aggregate alerts upstream.
- GitHub
- ★ 10.0k · last commit 3d ago · 55 open issues
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BSD-3-Clause - Setup time
- 20min docker-compose (Django + Postgres)
- Monthly cost
- $5/mo VPS.
Migration sketch. Pull `healthchecks/healthchecks:latest` and `postgres:16` via the docs.healthchecks.io install guide. Healthchecks is dead-man's-switch / cron-monitoring (the inverse of UptimeRobot — your job pings Healthchecks; if it stops, alerts fire). For URL probing, use Healthchecks together with a separate uptime-checker — but if your alert needs are 'did this cron job run', this is the right tool, not UptimeRobot.
Good fit forCron jobs, scheduled tasks, batch pipelines — monitoring that something fired, not that a URL responded.
Weak atNot an uptime checker — won't probe your homepage; complementary to Uptime Kuma rather than a replacement.
- GitHub
- ★ 1.97k · last commit 11mo ago · 193 open issues
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GPL-3.0 - Setup time
- 10min docker run
- Monthly cost
- $3/mo VPS; SQLite or Postgres.
Migration sketch. Run `docker run -it -p 8080:8080 --name statping --restart always -v $HOME/statping:/app statping/statping-ng`. Add HTTP/TCP/ICMP services in the UI. Statping bundles a built-in customer-facing status page on the same instance — fewer moving parts than Cachet + a checker. Notification channels include Slack, Discord, email, Telegram, generic webhook.
Good fit forTeams that want monitor + public status page bundled, with a slightly more polished public-facing default than Uptime Kuma.
Weak atSmaller community than Uptime Kuma; release cadence has been slower since the upstream Statping project went unmaintained.
In a terminal? npx os-alt uptime-robot prints this table —
how the CLI works →