If you are reading this, you already know Freshping is gone. The service was discontinued on March 6, 2026, and Freshworks gave everyone a 90-day window before all accounts, monitors, and history get permanently deleted. That window closes on June 4, 2026. As of today, April 15, you have roughly 50 days left.
This guide is not another listicle of replacement tools. If you want a broader comparison, we already wrote one: the 7 best Freshping alternatives . This post is different. This is the project plan I would hand to a solo founder or a small ops team and say, start executing right now. Velprove shows up as the worked example because that is what we build, but the plan itself applies to any tool you pick.
The June 4 deadline is closer than it looks
Fifty days sounds like a lot until you remember that monitoring migrations never get the Monday-morning slot on anyone's calendar. They slip. A two-week parallel-run window, a weekend of rebuilding monitors, a few hours of triage, and suddenly you are looking at the last week of May with nothing done. That is the pattern I keep seeing in the support emails we get from Freshping refugees.
Here is what actually happens on June 4. Your Freshping account stops loading. Your monitor list is gone. Your historical uptime reports are gone. Any SLA evidence you needed to prove to a customer that you were up for 99.95% of Q1 is gone. Freshworks has confirmed this in writing, with no grace period and no recovery tier. Treat June 4 the way you would treat a tax deadline: the date is the date.
Across the Freshping userbase, Freshworks reported more than 20,000 businesses and over 55,000 monitored URLs. A lot of that monitoring is quietly rotting right now because the owner has not logged in since the shutdown email landed in March. Do not be one of them.
Why there is no one-click migration
Let me set expectations before we get to the plan. There is no migration tool. There is no CSV export on most Freshping plans. There is no API you can scrape. No third party has built an importer, because Freshworks never published a schema worth importing against. I have looked. Our users have looked. Every migration you will read about online is manual.
That sounds worse than it is. Most Freshping accounts are 10 to 30 HTTP monitors with simple alert rules. A manual rebuild takes a few hours if you do it methodically. The trap is not the rebuild itself, it is forgetting which monitors existed in the first place, or which Slack channel they alerted, or which teammate was the on-call contact. That is why the plan below starts with inventory.
The 6-step migration plan
Total active work: 4 to 6 hours, spread across two weeks. That leaves you five weeks of buffer before June 4, which you will want, because something always goes sideways.
Step 1. Inventory every monitor (Day 1, 30 minutes)
Log into Freshping. Open a spreadsheet. For every monitor, write down:
Monitor name and URL Check type (HTTP, HTTPS, keyword, port, ping) and expected status code Interval (1 min, 5 min, 15 min, etc.) Alert recipients (emails, Slack channels, webhooks) A rough priority label: revenue-critical, customer-facing, or internal
The priority label matters more than it looks. You are going to rebuild in priority order, not alphabetical order. The monitor on your login page gets rebuilt first. The monitor on the blog RSS feed gets rebuilt last.
Step 2. Export historical uptime data (Day 1, 15 minutes)
For any monitor where you might need SLA evidence, open the uptime report and screenshot it. Save the last 90 days of incident history too. Freshping has no bulk CSV export on most plans, so screenshots are what you get. Store the files somewhere that will outlast June 4: Google Drive, Dropbox, Notion, your laptop, anywhere that is not Freshping itself. Your new monitoring tool starts its own history from day one, so these screenshots are the only record of what happened before the cutover.
Step 3. Pick your destination tool (Day 1, 5 minutes)
You need a tool that allows commercial use on its free tier (a lot of them quietly stopped in 2024 and 2025), runs monitors at 5-minute intervals or better, sends email alerts reliably, and offers a public status page if you had one on Freshping. Bonus points for catching failures Freshping never could, because the whole point of a forced migration is to come out the other side with stronger coverage than you started with.
For the rest of this guide I am using Velprove as the worked example. It is the tool I build, so I can speak to it honestly. Here is the free plan in plain numbers so you can decide if it fits before you invest an hour of your day in the rebuild:
10 monitors total, at 5-minute intervals. That is the ceiling. HTTP, multi-step API, and browser login monitors all count against the same 10. Of those 10, up to 1 can be a browser login monitor at 15-minute intervals. That single slot is the wedge, more on it in a second. Multi-step API monitors with up to 3 chained requests. Email alerts, public status page, SSL certificate monitoring. Commercial use explicitly allowed, no credit card required.
If 10 monitors is too tight, Starter ($19/mo) is 25 monitors and 3 browser login monitors. Pro ($49/mo) is 100 monitors and 10 browser login monitors. I am listing those numbers because I would rather you know the ceiling now than hit it on day 3 of your rebuild. Head to velprove.com/signup when you are ready, or skim the alternatives post if you want a wider comparison first.
Step 4. Rebuild monitors in priority order (Days 2 to 5)
This is where the real work happens, and it is the most satisfying part. Work your spreadsheet from top to bottom, highest priority first. For a typical setup of 15 monitors, budget 1 to 3 hours total.
Most of your Freshping monitors will map one-to-one to HTTP monitors in your new tool. Paste the URL, set the expected status code (usually 200 OK), set the interval, attach alert recipients, save, done. If you rebuild 10 of those in a row, you will be in a rhythm by the fifth one.
When you get to the revenue-critical monitors, stop and ask a better question. Was your Freshping HTTP monitor actually telling you whether the thing worked, or only whether the server was awake? Here is the example that catches almost every founder off guard. A Freshping HTTP monitor pointing at example.com/login returns 200 OK and stays green. But the login itself is broken. Maybe a plugin update invalidated session cookies. Maybe a CSRF token regenerated wrong. Maybe the database connection behind the form quietly broke. Freshping had no way to test the actual login, so it happily reported green while your customers were locked out.
This is where the free browser login monitor earns its place in the plan. Velprove launches a real browser behind the scenes, opens your login URL, fills in test credentials, clicks submit, and verifies that authentication succeeded. If any step of that flow breaks, the monitor fails and you get an email. Upgrade at least one critical authenticated endpoint (your main login page, your admin dashboard, your customer portal) from a plain HTTP monitor to a browser login monitor during the rebuild. Freshping could not do this. Your new tool can.
For anything API-driven (a Stripe webhook, an auth token exchange, a multi-call workflow), consider a multi-step API monitor. Chain up to three requests, pass the token from step 1 to step 2, and verify the final response contains what it should. We wrote a full walkthrough in the multi-step API monitoring guide if you have not built one before.
Step 5. Run both tools in parallel for a week (Days 6 to 13)
Do not turn Freshping off yet. For seven days, run both tools side by side. This is the single most important step in the plan and the one everybody wants to skip. You are using Freshping as ground truth: a long-running baseline you already trust. If your new tool alerts but Freshping stays green, you have a false positive to tune. If Freshping alerts but your new tool stays green, you have a missing monitor or a misconfigured threshold.
Use this week to fix flapping monitors, confirm alert emails actually arrive, and verify every alert channel you rely on fires the way you expect. Velprove supports email on the free plan, plus Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and generic webhooks on Starter and up (PagerDuty, Opsgenie, and the rest wire in through the webhook). Get comfortable with the new dashboard. By day 13, you should trust the new tool the way you used to trust Freshping.
Step 6. Redirect alerts and decommission (Day 14 and beyond)
Now you cut over. Update every runbook, every on-call doc, every onboarding wiki page that mentions Freshping. Revoke Freshping from Slack. Remove the Freshping webhook from PagerDuty if you had one. Delete email filters that routed Freshping alerts to a folder. Move your exported screenshots into your long-term SLA archive.
Then stop checking Freshping. The date is the date, but you are already on the other side of it.
What to rebuild first if you only have one hour
If you are reading this in late May and the deadline is breathing down your neck, here is the triage version. Rebuild the monitors that, if they failed silently for 24 hours, would lose you actual money or actual customers. For almost every business that looks like:
Login page (upgrade to a browser login monitor if you can) Primary API health endpoint Customer portal or admin dashboard Homepage Status page itself
Everything else can wait a week. A blog monitor that fires at 2am and wakes nobody up is not the same emergency as a login monitor that would tell you the authentication layer is down.
Upgrades worth making while you migrate
A forced migration is a rare chance to close the gaps your old tool left open. Two in particular are worth making during the rebuild, not later.
Browser login monitors. Freshping could not test authentication flows. Your new tool probably can, and even if it only covers one monitor on the free plan, that monitor should be your most important login page. Read how to monitor your WordPress wp-admin page or the WHMCS portal guide if you want a concrete walkthrough for a common stack.
Multi-step API monitors. Anything that chains authentication with a follow-up request (fetch a token, then call a protected endpoint, then verify the response body) is invisible to a plain HTTP monitor. A 3-step chain catches failures that a single ping never will. We go deep on this in the API authentication flow monitoring guide.
Common migration pitfalls
I have watched enough of these migrations to know where they fall over. Here are the ones to actively defend against.
Forgetting alert recipients. The URLs are easy to copy. The human on the other end of the alert is what people forget. Before you leave Freshping, document every email, every Slack channel, and every PagerDuty service a Freshping monitor ever routed to. Skipping SSL certificate monitors. Freshping had them, you probably had one configured, and if it lapses two weeks after you migrate you will have no idea why browsers started rejecting your site. Recreate it on day one. Skipping the parallel-run week. Every engineer thinks their migration is clean and theirs will not flap. Every migration flaps. Run in parallel. Waiting until the last weekend. If something goes wrong on May 30 you have three days to fix it. If something goes wrong on April 20 you have six weeks. Not updating runbooks. Your incident response doc still says "check Freshping dashboard". When the next on-call rotation hits, somebody will waste 15 minutes looking for a dashboard that does not exist.
FAQ
Can I still log into Freshping today?
Yes, as of April 15, 2026 the dashboard is accessible in read-only mode. You can copy monitor URLs and screenshot history. You cannot add or edit monitors. Login goes away on June 4.
What happens if I miss June 4?
Everything is deleted permanently. No grace period, no recovery path. Freshworks has stated this publicly. If you miss the date, assume you are rebuilding from whatever you remember plus whatever your team documented.
Can I keep my Freshping monitor history?
Only as screenshots or whatever limited export your plan offered. Your new tool starts its own history from day one.
Does Velprove import Freshping configurations?
No. Nothing does. Freshping never exposed the data in a format anyone could import against. Every migration you will find online, including this one, is manual.
What about team plans and multi-recipient alerts?
Write down every alert recipient before you leave Freshping. Alert routing is the easiest thing to forget and the hardest thing to reconstruct from memory. Rebuild the routing explicitly in your new tool as part of step 4.
The simplest thing you can do today is step 1. Open Freshping, open a spreadsheet, and spend 15 minutes writing down what you have. Even that much gets you measurably ahead of the June 4 deadline and makes the rest of the plan feel tractable instead of overwhelming.
When you are ready to rebuild, Velprove's free plan is how most solo operators and small teams replace Freshping without pulling out a credit card. One browser login monitor, ten HTTP monitors, multi-step API chains, a public status page, and commercial use allowed. If you outgrow it, you outgrow it, but it is enough to get you off Freshping and onto something that will not disappear on you.
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