The best uptime monitors, according to hackers
8 uptime monitors recommended in Hacker News comments over the past year, ranked by how many separate people recommend each one.
- Most recommendedUptime Kuma17 people recommend it
- Least regretHealthchecks.io12 recommend, 0 criticize
All uptime monitors
- Uptime KumaFree, open-source uptime monitor that is easy to self-host and sends alerts to chosen channels, including certificate expiry warnings. Critics note it lacks features for small teams and is single-user.17recommend
- Healthchecks.ioDead man's switch that alerts you when scheduled jobs or backups fail to check in, and people say it has saved them repeatedly.12recommend
- UpdogPeople recommend Updog as a quick way to check whether services like GitHub are having outages, often alongside DownDetector. No caveat recurs in the quotes.6recommend
- UpDown.ioPeople recommend it for simple uptime monitoring with no accounts or tracking, and for its pay-per-use pricing. It is praised as a lean alternative to bloated monitoring tools.5recommend
- HeartbeatRecommended by a few people for simple team use and as an open always-on agent implementation; no criticism recorded.5recommend
- Claude status pagePeople recommend its quick, honest incident updates and alert subscriptions. Critics say it can lag and mislead about specific models.5recommend
- Salesforce status pagePeople recommend it for a detailed, instance-by-instance view that shows which services are affected. The one complaint is that it needs more tabs.5recommend
- Sigabrt.devPeople recommend it for emailing when scheduled runs go missing, with an SSH TUI and a dashboard. Critics say a heartbeat alone without logs cannot show why temporary failures happen.5recommend