UptimeRobot alternative after their ToS changes

7 points by andrew-jack 1y ago ↗ HN

UptimeRobot no longer allows free monitoring for commercial projects, which is a major drawback for many users like myself.

I’m now searching for an alternative that offers a generous free plan.

After using UptimeRobot for about six years and being a big fan of their service, their recent pricing and terms of service changes, along with the plan restructuring, have unfortunately made it impractical for my needs.

Here’s a screenshot from their newsletter: https://x.com/AndrewDeJackson/status/1844665065267442142

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arminsergiony 1y ago ↗

In the last few years, they’ve made a ton of changes to their pricing and terms, and honestly, it’s been pretty frustrating for users.

Heleana 1y ago ↗

Go to open source or an alternative; there are a lot.

patrakov 1y ago ↗

Well, the whole point here is that somebody else (not you!) runs it, at which point open or closed source is irrelevant as long as it works.

smelbe 1y ago ↗

We switched to Pulsetic monitoring a year ago, and when UptimeRobot first changed their pricing and terms, we made the move. Here’s the comparison table: https://pulsetic.com/uptimerobot-alternative/ . So far, everything has been great.

Heleana 1y ago ↗

What kind of feature set do you need out of it? Are you opposed to spinning up an open source project?

If you need something more custom like creating tickets in a bug tracker, it would be fairly trivial to trigger a script based off one of the notification options they have out of the box.

Rudism 1y ago ↗

For a few years I've been running a couple self-hosted instances of Uptime Kuma from two different locations (a Raspberry Pi at my house and on my VPS) which monitor a few things I care about plus each other, and haven't had any problems.