UpDown.io
Shares rank 4 of 8 uptime monitors by recommenders
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.
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.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: 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 4 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
Simple, uncluttered, no accounts
“Most of the others have become over-bloated with a shitty UI.”
Comment from 25 May 2026 in “The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month” “No accounts, no tracking, just the status.”
Comment from 27 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: UpDown, Simple Website Uptime Checker” Monitoring and status pages
“For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io”
Comment from 25 May 2026 in “The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month” “I host my status page there”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues”
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 | — | — |
| UpDown.ioThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
| Heartbeat | 5 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I like Updown.io, where you can pay per use”
“Most of the others have become over-bloated with a shitty UI.”
“For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io”
“No accounts, no tracking, just the status.”
“I host my status page there”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.