The best self-hosted uptime monitoring in 2026
Hosted uptime checkers meter you by monitor count; a self-hosted one watches unlimited endpoints for a flat cost. One structural caveat belongs in every honest guide: a monitor in the same data center as your services can go down with them — put your uptime monitor on separate infrastructure from what it watches.
Uptime Kuma
The category favorite and deservedly so: HTTP/TCP/ping/DNS/certificate checks, beautiful status pages, and 90+ notification channels, all configured in a friendly UI in minutes.
Healthchecks
Solves the inverse problem: instead of probing your services, it waits for your cron jobs and scripts to ping in — and alerts when they don't. The right tool for backup jobs that silently stopped running.
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Grafana
Not an uptime checker but the dashboard layer: pair it with Prometheus when you outgrow up/down checks and want real metrics (latency percentiles, resource trends).
Netdata
Instant per-second system metrics with zero configuration — the fastest way to see what a server is doing right now.
Beszel
A newer lightweight server-monitoring hub with agents and alerting — simpler than the Prometheus stack, more than a ping check.
Uptime Kuma. Uptime Kuma for watching services, Healthchecks for watching your scheduled jobs — they complement rather than compete.
Every app above is open-source — you can run it yourself on a VPS, or let us run it for you: one click, your own subdomain, TLS, daily encrypted backups, EU data centers, operated from Switzerland. Free trial, no credit card.
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