Analytics and monitoring

Pingdom alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

louislam/uptime-kuma89,927MITSelf-hosted monitoring with scheduled HTTP checks, alerts, and a status dashboard for uptime and response metrics.Open on GitHub TwiN/gatus11,737Apache-2.0Lightweight service uptime and status page with alerting, incidents, and automated checks across endpoints.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Global probe network (many geographically distributed test locations)
Built-in Real User Monitoring (RUM) and detailed page-speed instrumentation
Enterprise-grade scale, retention, and integrated APM/log management
Turnkey integrations, polished UI, and vendor support

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Pingdom, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.