What's the simplest (free?) uptime checker these days? I want to monitor a couple of sites that tend to be a bit flaky. - ThreadSky

joe.codes • 131 days ago

What's the simplest (free?) uptime checker these days? I want to monitor a couple of sites that tend to be a bit flaky.

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aakif.org•130 days ago

Uptime Kuma is an option if you fancy self hosting: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

wking.dev•130 days ago

If you're into https://Val.town you can use them:

https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse/uptime

cmorrell.com•130 days ago

We use https://ohdear.app — not free and maybe not simple, but in the Laravel family…

joe.codes•130 days ago

Yeah, I used to use Oh Dear, nothing against it, just looking to ideally not pay for something just to check my sites right now. But I dig 'em.

cmorrell.com•130 days ago

You could also use monit. It’s free and basic.

cmorrell.com•130 days ago

We use it on most of our hosts to watch for busted processes/etc, and then I have a script that posts to slack if something goes wrong. I’m pretty sure you can run it on your own server to monitor external hosts if you want… https://mmonit.com/monit/

joe.codes•130 days ago

Oh actually this might be the ticket! Thanks dude

cmorrell.com•130 days ago

lmk if you want the slack script!

emmettnaughton.bsky.social•130 days ago

time to build our own!

joshhanley.au•130 days ago

Yeah I use ohdear too

karlm.dev•130 days ago

Uptime Kuma in a docker container.

blackdotlabs.com•130 days ago

This

guillermocava.com•130 days ago

I’ve used theses folk in the past https://pingping.io/

colin-cameron.bsky.social•129 days ago

Another vote here for https://uptimerobot.com - it misses short incidents due to a 5 minute check interval on free accounts, but it’s good enough for me.