Updog
Ranked 3 of 8 uptime monitors by recommenders
People recommend Updog as a quick way to check whether services like GitHub are having outages, often alongside DownDetector. No caveat recurs in the quotes.
People recommend Updog as a quick way to check whether services like GitHub are having outages, often alongside DownDetector. No caveat recurs in the quotes.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: 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: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, 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
Memorable name for an uptime app
“whoever came up with updog over there as the name of your uptime app is a marketing genius”
Comment from 4 Mar 2026 in “GitHub Is Degraded” Reports service outages quickly
“reported the incident 13 minutes ago”
Comment from 5 Dec 2025 in “Cloudflare was down” Checked alongside DownDetector during outages
“I always check DownDetector and Updog whenever something seems strange about GitHub behavior”
Comment from 23 Apr 2026 in “GitHub Having Issues (Again)” Quite good in practice
“which actually has been quite good”
Comment from 18 Sep 2026 in “Can we stop with the uptime percentages?”
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 |
| UpdogThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
| UpDown.io | 5 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
| Heartbeat | 5 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
4 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“which actually has been quite good”
“I always check DownDetector and Updog whenever something seems strange about GitHub behavior”
“whoever came up with updog over there as the name of your uptime app is a marketing genius”
“reported the incident 13 minutes ago”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.