Analytics and monitoring
Better Stack / UptimeRobot paid 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.
The projects
louislam/uptime-kuma★89,927 GitHub starsMIT licenceSelf-hosted monitoring with scheduled HTTP checks, alerts, status pages, and a web UI.Open on GitHub ↗openstatusHQ/openstatus★8,946 GitHub starsAGPL-3.0 licenceStatus page and uptime monitoring with API monitoring, incident tracking, and alerting features.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- eBPF-based tracing and OpenTelemetry-native infrastructure features
- Built-in log management, large-scale ingestion and query UI
- AI-native incident analysis (AI SRE) and automated post-mortems
- Global edge network with built-in traceroute/MTR and Playwright browser execution at scale
- Integrated MCP server and turnkey integrations (Terraform, imports, many SaaS integrations)
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Better Stack / UptimeRobot paid, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.