# UpDown.io

5 Hacker News commenters recommended UpDown.io and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People 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.

## Why people recommend it

- Simple, uncluttered, no accounts (2 comments): "Most of the others have become over-bloated with a shitty UI." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272660)) "No accounts, no tracking, just the status." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46406308))
- Monitoring and status pages (2 comments): "For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271396)) "I host my status page there" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45964658))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Uptime Kuma](https://hackerapproved.com/p/uptime-kuma.md): 17 recommend
- [Healthchecks.io](https://hackerapproved.com/p/healthchecks-io.md): 12 recommend
- [Updog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/updog.md): 6 recommend
- [Heartbeat](https://hackerapproved.com/p/heartbeat.md): 5 recommend
- [Sigabrt.dev](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sigabrt-dev.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://updown.io/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "UpDown.io", https://hackerapproved.com/p/updown-io/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).