Uptime Kuma Has a Free Self-Hosted Monitoring Tool — Here's How to Use It

Pingdom costs $15/month. UptimeRobot's free tier has limits. Uptime Kuma is a beautiful, self-hosted uptime monitor — unlimited checks, notifications everywhere, and a stunning dashboard.

What Is Uptime Kuma?

Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool. It checks if your websites, APIs, and services are up — and alerts you through 90+ notification channels when they go down.

Quick Start

docker run -d --restart=always -p 3001:3001 \
  -v uptime-kuma:/app/data \
  --name uptime-kuma \
  louislam/uptime-kuma:1

Visit http://localhost:3001 — set up admin account and start monitoring.

Monitor Types

• HTTP(S) — check if website returns 200
• TCP Port — check if port is open
• Ping — ICMP ping
• DNS — verify DNS records
• Docker Container — check container health
• Steam Game Server — game server monitoring
• MQTT — message broker check
• gRPC — service health
• Radius — network auth server

Notification Channels (90+)

Slack, Discord, Telegram, Email (SMTP), Microsoft Teams, Webhook, PagerDuty, Pushover, Gotify, Matrix, Signal, ntfy, and many more.

Features

• Status pages — public status page for your users
• Multi-language — 30+ languages
• 2FA — secure admin access
• Proxy support — monitor through proxies
• Certificate monitoring — SSL expiry alerts
• Maintenance windows — scheduled downtime
• Response time charts — historical performance data
• API — programmatic access

Why Uptime Kuma

Feature	Uptime Kuma	UptimeRobot	Pingdom
Cost	Free (self-host)	Free (50 monitors)	$15/month
Monitors	Unlimited	50 free	10+
Check interval	20s+	5 min (free)	1 min
Status page	Yes	Yes	Yes
Notifications	90+	Limited free	SMS + email
Self-hosted	Yes	No	No

Get Started

• GitHub — 62K+ stars
• Demo
• Wiki

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