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Best self-hosted uptime monitoring

Self-hosting a monitor is appealing: no vendor, no invoice, full control. The catch is fate-sharing — a checker on your own infrastructure can go dark at the exact moment you need it. Here is the leading self-hosted tool, and the hosted counterpoint worth knowing about.

1. 1. Uptime Kuma

   Uptime checker (self-hosted) · Self-hosted

   The self-hosted monitor. Docker Compose, many protocols, heartbeats for cron, and a status page you expose yourself — capable, free, and entirely yours to keep online.

   Pricing: Free software. You pay the VPS, the backups, and the time.

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2. 2. GreenCrew

   Uptime checker · Hosted

   Not self-hosted, and that is the point: monitoring that lives off your network, so it is still up when your server is not.

   Pricing: Free while we keep it simple.

   See GreenCrew →Visit GreenCrew