UptimeRobot free plan for non-commercial use only

m4nu

Just got an email that Uptimerobot.com is limiting the free plan to non-commercial use only. Been using them to monitor my sites for many years now.

Any alternatives the community can recommend? Myself, I'd like to plug Uptime Kuma hosted on PikaPods.com. That's my service, but I'm also using it for my own monitoring.

Only downside of Uptime Kuma is that it uses SQLite, so if you have many monitors or short intervals, the dashboard will get slower. One workaround is to limit intervals or the history to keep. With this it works alright with 50-100 monitors.

I also looked into adding Statping-ng but it's not maintained any more and has some old Go deps that would need some work.

Any other notable alternatives to share?

zGato

https://betterstack.com/uptime is amazing

eris

Currently use https://updown.io/ or use my affiliate link (https://updown.io/r/NhXyK for 100k free credits)

With the services I currently us and 10,000,000 "checks" package I can do about 11 month with 100 euro (+/- 20 sites every 1 minute)

Works fine

lowendtalkxdax

Smokeping if you don't mind editing your config via cli

Erisa

My goto is HetrixTools (free) and updown.io (paid)

lukast__

HetrixTools is great.

FAT32

I am currently using Gatus in production

kainjinez

Get a cheap NAT VPS or <$10/yr plan in BF event and host Uptime Kuma. That's great.

zrj766

HetrixTools

DataRecovery

@m4nu said:
Just got an email that Uptimerobot is limiting the free plan to non-commercial use only. Been using them to monitor my sites for many years now.

Same.

Didn't see the email yet though.

How they are going to determine whether the site is a commercial one or not?

hiphiphip0

I must have bookmarked 10+ self-hosted uptime script, here is some:
https://tianji.msgbyte.com/
https://github.com/lyc8503/UptimeFlare
https://github.com/bluewave-labs/bluewave-uptime

rick2610

We need to wait until alerts.net is operational again. @MrRadic

Boogeyman

@m4nu said: it uses SQLite

https://github.com/trogper/uptime-kuma/tree/mysql

hsr

HyperPing and Better Uptime (!!!) are both great alternatives. Spectate looks decent as well, tried it during the beta.

vitobotta

I use Updown.io, it's simple and cheap but it works well.

lipanbaraku

@eris said:
Currently use https://updown.io/ or use my affiliate link (https://updown.io/r/NhXyK for 100k free credits)

With the services I currently us and 10,000,000 "checks" package I can do about 11 month with 100 euro (+/- 20 sites every 1 minute)

Works fine

The number of websites is hard limit or just for pricing calculation?

m4nu

@Boogeyman said: https://github.com/trogper/uptime-kuma/tree/mysql

Last commit was 3 years ago...

eris

@lipanbaraku said:

@eris said:
Currently use https://updown.io/ or use my affiliate link (https://updown.io/r/NhXyK for 100k free credits)

With the services I currently us and 10,000,000 "checks" package I can do about 11 month with 100 euro (+/- 20 sites every 1 minute)

Works fine

The number of websites is hard limit or just for pricing calculation?

You pay for each check ...

https://updown.io/#pricing

cu_olly

@m4nu said: I also looked into adding Statping-ng but it's not maintained any more and has some old Go deps that would need some work.

Where did you see that Statping-ng is no longer maintained?

This is a good list of options: https://github.com/ivbeg/awesome-status-pages

m4nu

@cu_olly said: Where did you see that Statping-ng is no longer maintained?

Leaving a high-priority security issue unresolved since March is a strong indicator of a project being abandoned. 😜

MrRadic

@rick2610 said:
We need to wait until alerts.net is operational again. @MrRadic

I have an update that I'll post later today.

SpeedBus

If public status page isn't a urgent requirement, I'd give https://uptime.gd a try too

It's a personal project of mine, work-in-progress

evnix

+1 for HetrixTools

lpn

I use Hetrixtools for couple of sites and it works fine for the sites that it works. However I can not activate a monitor for one site that is using Cloudflare, although it returns status 200 when connecting to it. Any idea why that might be?

JasonM

hetrixtools, statuscake i use

xmok

@lpn said:
I use Hetrixtools for couple of sites and it works fine for the sites that it works. However I can not activate a monitor for one site that is using Cloudflare, although it returns status 200 when connecting to it. Any idea why that might be?

This happens to me with UptimeRobot as well for sites hosted via Cloudflare Workers. When I asked Support they said the IPs have to be explicitly whitelisted by Cloudflare or Admins.

For now I'm having to mix and match 😔.
I'm using HetrixTools, UptimeRobot and Uptime Kuma simultaneously.

So far in my usage, Uptime Robot seems most effective for non-Cloudflare sites whereas HetrixTools is good with the Cloudflare ones. Uptime Kuma seems best but that probably also has to do with the fact that the IP doesn't have many monitors on it.

anubhavhirani

@lpn said:
I use Hetrixtools for couple of sites and it works fine for the sites that it works. However I can not activate a monitor for one site that is using Cloudflare, although it returns status 200 when connecting to it. Any idea why that might be?

Are you using CF proxy?

COLBYLICIOUS

I am in love with HetrixTools (aff / non-aff)

@lpn said:
I use Hetrixtools for couple of sites and it works fine for the sites that it works. However I can not activate a monitor for one site that is using Cloudflare, although it returns status 200 when connecting to it. Any idea why that might be?

Make an WAF rule and allow ASN from HetrixTools to access your website.

jack2px

statuscake is amazing

mrTom

did others get this email as well?
i didnt, but with 30 active monitors it could arguably be considered as non-personal use.

Levi

@lowendtalkxdax said:
Smokeping if you don't mind editing your config via cli

This is correct view of life. Don’t like it? Edit via cli.