Heartbeat
Shares rank 4 of 8 uptime monitors by recommenders
Recommended by a few people for simple team use and as an open always-on agent implementation; no criticism recorded.
Recommended by a few people for simple team use and as an open always-on agent implementation; no criticism recorded.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works for a small team
“This works for my team, though it took some convincing to get everyone on board.”
Comment from 30 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Heartbeat – A simple public page for your real-world and online status” Small working Python implementation
“This is ~200 lines of Python. It runs. autoDream works.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Heartbeat – open implementation of KAIROS, the always-on agent hiden in Claude C” Suggested for floating IP failover
“use something like heartbeat to have a floating IP”
Comment from 5 Feb 2026 in “Don't rent the cloud, own instead”
Other uptime monitors people recommend
The four most recommended other uptime monitors, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uptime Kuma | 17 | 2 | 89% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Healthchecks.io | 12 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Updog | 6 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
| HeartbeatThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
| UpDown.io | 5 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
3 of the 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“This is ~200 lines of Python. It runs. autoDream works.”
“This works for my team, though it took some convincing to get everyone on board.”
“use something like heartbeat to have a floating IP”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.