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A few days ago all the free users of Pingdom were sent an email that Pingdom is shutting down its free plan on 6th of February. If you are one of the free users of Pingdom then in this post, I will discuss about some free alternatives to Pingdom for website uptime monitoring. Here in this list, I will mention some free websites that provide similar services in the free plan as Pingdom does(as of now). Here using these websites, you can monitor single or multiple websites and record uptime and downtime. In addition, you will get the notifications each time your server or website goes down.

Before starting with the list of Pingdom alternatives, let’s have a look at the current free plan of Pingdom. In its current free plan, Pingdom provides you 1 website check from multiple locations. You will receive email alerts and you can even create a status page here. The uptime check interval that it offers you is 1 minute. Features like these will be included in the following websites. Also, some of the websites in the below list give you some more features and more tools in the free version.

Below you can also see the video created by us for best free Pingdom alternatives:

20 Free Pingdom Alternatives to Monitor Website Uptime:

1. FreshPing





FreshPing by Freshworks is the best free alternative to Pingdom to monitor downtime, uptime of multiple websites. It is advanced service to monitor websites with 5 public status pages. It is a multi user website uptime monitoring service. Here you can add up to 30 member in your team and define their roles as well. Here it offers you a very intuitive interface where you can add multiple website URLs to monitor. It shows you a response time graph that you can use to analyze to analyze the activeness of your websites. The websites that you add in it can be monitored from 10 different locations and there are multiple type of checks that it offers. You can check the status of your websites using ICMP pings, HTTP status, and DNS checks. See the monitoring parameters below.

Number of Monitors : 50

: 50 Ping interval : 1 minute.

: 1 minute. Can Check from Multiple Locations : Yes, 10.

: Yes, 10. Data Retention : 6 Months.

: 6 Months. Webhooks : Yes.

: Yes. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : No.

: No. Status page included : Yes, 5.

: Yes, 5. Response time graph: Yes.

FreshPing is no doubt a best alternative to pingdom out there. And it is an ideal tool for small teams that work closely on websites and other web applications. The features set in the free plan is amazing as well. Also, the features to create 5 free public pages and test websites from 10 different locations are really useful.

2. CULA

CULA is other one of the best free alternatives to Pingdom out there right now. Also, it is one the best free website and server monitoring solution that you can use. It allows you to monitor a lot of websites altogether using its advanced interface. It provides a very detailed dashboard from where you can see the status of all the monitors that you add in it. You can see the response time and see the history of all the downtimes. There are around 10 parameters that you can choose while adding a URL in the list to monitor. When the added site becomes unavailable, it can sends you email notifications. Also, you can configure Slack and Discord webhooks to get notifications. In the notifications, you can see after how much time of activity the website went down. Not only this, but it also shows the status code there.

Number of Monitors : 50

: 50 Ping interval : 2 minutes.

: 2 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : Yes.

: Yes. Data Retention : Yes, up to 180 days.

: Yes, up to 180 days. Webhooks : Yes. Slack, PushOver, and Discord.

: Yes. Slack, PushOver, and Discord. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : No.

: No. Status page included : No.

: No. Response time graph: Yes.

CULA is no doubt is the number one free alternative to Pingdom in terms of monitoring features. The features like webhooks for Slack, Pushover, ICMP pings, and content based URL checking are noteworthy. If you have multiple websites and servers to watch then you may consider this. The free plan is more than enough for personal and light professional use.

3. Uptime Robot

Uptime Robot in the free plan provides you 50 monitors. It is quite popular service out there as well. The features that it offers in the free plan make it a very good alternative to Pingdom. From its intuitive interface, you can see the status of websites that you add in it. It offers you multiple type of checks to make you sure that the target website and web services are up. The checks that it offers are port, keyword, and ping. You can set up the type of monitor in it and even host public status page as well. And the notifications feature of this website is quite advanced one. Here it allows you to ignore minor downtime. You can opt to get alerts once (or every y minutes) if down for x minutes.

Number of Monitors : 50

: 50 Ping interval : 5 minutes.

: 5 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : Yes.

: Yes. Data Retention : Yes, up to 2 months.

: Yes, up to 2 months. Webhooks : Yes. Slack, Telegram, Microsoft Teams, OpsGenie, and Pagerduty.

: Yes. Slack, Telegram, Microsoft Teams, OpsGenie, and Pagerduty. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : No.

: No. Status page included : Yes.

: Yes. Response time graph: Yes.

Uptime Robot is a nice website that you can use in place of Pingdom. You will really like the features such as advanced notifications, status page, and multiple type of checks, and some others.

4. DowntimeMonkey

DowntimeMonkey provides highest number of monitors in the free plan. And it is an outstanding service to monitor uptime of multiple websites. You can add as many websites here as you want and monitor their uptime from a simple and elegant dashboard. It keeps checking the website to check its availability and notifies immediately when it goes down. It offers you email and SMS notifications (you will have to buy credits). You can compare it to Pingdom by having a look at its different parameters related to website monitoring.

Number of Monitors : 60

: 60 Ping interval : 3 minutes.

: 3 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : No.

: No. Data Retention : Yes, up to 90 days.

: Yes, up to 90 days. Webhooks : No.

: No. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : Not in free plan.

: Not in free plan. Status page included : Yes.

: Yes. Response time graph: Yes.

You can sign up for free account and see it in action by yourself. The website is simple and the interface is pretty as well. If you want a simple website monitoring service that can check up to 50 websites then you can consider DowntimeMonkey. Otherwise there are other websites in this list.

5. StatusCake

StatusCake is another popular website that you can use to monitor website uptime and downtime as well. It shows the stats of downtime and uptime from the main interface. You can see the simple graphical report to analyze the website status. It allows you to export settings and makes it very easy to add your websites in it to monitor them. Just create a free account and then start with the website monitoring. To see website monitoring parameter of this service, you can see the below points.

Number of Monitors : 10

: 10 Ping interval : 5 minutes.

: 5 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : No.

: No. Data Retention : No.

: No. Webhooks : No.

: No. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : Not in free plan.

: Not in free plan. Status page included : No.

: No. Response time graph: Yes.

This is all about the StatusCake. If you are okay with the check interval that it offers and the number of monitors then you may consider it in place of Pingdom. However, if you want some other advanced features then you can use other websites that I have already added in this post.

6. NixStats

NixStats is basically meant for server monitoring. But you can use it to monitor different websites as well. It works in the same way as other websites work in this list. However, it uses different approach to check the availability of a website. Here it can only check if host is up or not. It won’t alert you if there are any internal server errors. As long as the target website is returning online status, it will keep showing green light. The interface of this website is simple and there are some other features that you will like. You can monitor a server with this too. But for monitoring a server, you will have to install an agent on it first. See below parameters to analyze if it can be a good Pingdom alternative by yourself.

Number of Monitors : 5

: 5 Check interval : 1 minutes.

: 1 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : No.

: No. Data Retention : Yes, 24 hours data retention and 7 days for historical data.

: Yes, 24 hours data retention and 7 days for historical data. Webhooks : Not in free plan.

: Not in free plan. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : Not in free plan.

: Not in free plan. Status page included : No.

: No. Response time graph: Yes.

If you want a Pingdom alternative that can monitor VPSs or other online server then you may consider this service. However, the free plan is kinda limited. The free plan is good for individual use. So, if you are an individual developer or something then you can use this to monitor your server or websites.

7. isUp.li

isUp.li is a totally free website. There is only one plan which is free that lets you monitor multiple websites. This is a pretty straightforward website that you can use. Here you just add the URLs that you want to monitor and then get the details. You can anytime turn it off or pause the monitors you create in it. It creates simple reports that you can analyze. And in the email notifications, you can see the status of the website when it goes down. Overall, the website’s interface is simple and uses an external server to ping the website that you add. See the monitoring parameters below.

Number of Monitors : 25

: 25 Ping interval : 4 minutes.

: 4 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : No.

: No. Data Retention : No.

: No. Webhooks : No.

: No. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : No.

: No. Status page included : No.

: No. Response time graph: No.

If you want to try this then you are good to go. However, in my case it wasn’t showing correct information in the website dashboard. But is was able to send the email notifications when the sites added in it went down.

8. DownNotifier

DownNotifier is a simple downtime notifier website that you can use as a replacement of Pingdom. Here it lets you monitor your websites for uptime and downtime tracking in two ways. You can either check if the website is up by conventional ping method. Or, there is an option in it to monitor a given website by checking a specific piece of text. It will send you email alert if the watched websites fails to return online status. The SMS notifications are not included in the free plan, but you can buy credits to enable SMS notifications as well. The interface of the website is simple and you can analyze simple uptime and downtime reports that it creates for you.

Number of Monitors : 5

: 5 Ping interval : 10 minutes.

: 10 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : No.

: No. Data Retention : Yes, up to one month.

: Yes, up to one month. Webhooks : No.

: No. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : Not in free plan.

: Not in free plan. Status page included : No.

: No. Response time graph: No.

The free version of DownNotifier is good if you need a simple monitoring solution for your websites. The features in the free plan are only related to uptime and downtime monitoring. You just have to create free account and then you can simply start monitoring your websites or services painlessly.

9. Uptime Doctor

Uptime Doctor is quite old website but still works perfectly. On its simple web interface, you can create website monitors and start receiving emails when any of them goes down. It has a detailed reports section where you can see the overall status of the websites that you have added in it. The process of adding and configuring the monitors is different here but it’s worth the wait. You can see the history of all the outages and do whatever you want. However, the best part is that you can save the all the downtime history as a CSV file for analysis. The parameters regarding website uptime monitoring are given below.

Number of Monitors : 5

: 5 Ping interval : 1 minute.

: 1 minute. Can Check from Multiple Locations : No.

: No. Data Retention : 1 year.

: 1 year. Webhooks : No.

: No. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : Not in free plan.

: Not in free plan. Status page included : No.

: No. Response time graph: Yes.

There is not so much to talk about this service as it only focuses on the website uptime monitoring. Plus, an advantage that I see here is that you can add unlimited contacts. And those contacts can be used to send alerts.

10. Servitor

Servitor is another good service that you can use as a Pingdom alternative. Here it provides almost all the features that you will need to monitor a website uptime. Here along with 3 websites, you can monitor 1 server as well. And to monitor a server, you will have to install an agent on it. When it comes to monitor uptime of websites, it offers an intuitive interface for that. You can see the detailed overview of the uptime of websites that you add in it. The reports section is very good and will give you data that you need. However, the data can’t be exported to a file. See the other features overview below.

Number of Monitors : 3

: 3 Ping interval : Realtime.

: Realtime. Can Check from Multiple Locations : Yes.

: Yes. Data Retention : Yes, 3 days.

: Yes, 3 days. Webhooks : Yes, Slack.

: Yes, Slack. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : Not in free plan.

: Not in free plan. Status page included : Yes.

: Yes. Response time graph: Yes.

In my opinion, it is reliable alternative to Pingdom if you are okay with the limitations of free plan then you are good to go with it. If you have a server as well then you will like this service. And its ability to check websites from multiple locations, and creating status pages are noteworthy.

11. Port-Monitor

Port-Monitor is yet another free Pingdom alternative which you can try. Just like some other services in this post, you can use it in the same way. You can create monitors here and then it will keep watching your websites. The interface of this service is very good and you can see the current status of your website right from the main dashboard. It even lets you create a status page for free and offers some other features. It comes with Pushover integration so that you can get the downtime notifications on your Android or iPhone. The report section shows a response time graph that you will like and for more other parameters, you can see the below list.

Number of Monitors : 2

: 2 Ping interval : 1 minute .

: 1 minute . Can Check from Multiple Locations : No.

: No. Data Retention : 1 week.

: 1 week. Webhooks : Yes, Pushover.

: Yes, Pushover. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : No.

: No. Status page included : Yes.

: Yes. Response time graph: Yes.

In the above list, you can see the key points related to uptime monitoring with this service. If you think that it can suit your needs then you can start using it. Create a free account and then create a group to start adding monitors in it. And I liked the fact that not just websites but you can monitor servers as well.

12. Montastic

Montastic is an extremely simple website that you can use. However, the check interval here is too long than most of other websites that I have already mentioned. It is an open source alternative to Pingdom that you will like for its simplicity. You can see its source code on GitHub and even run it on your own server. Here it doesn’t have reports section. You just add monitors which are called “Checkpoints” in this. After that, it will keep monitoring them after a fixed interval of time. The email alerts are informational and it lets you send the email alerts to multiple contacts. For other parameters, you can see the following list.

Number of Monitors : 3

: 3 Ping interval : 30 minutes.

: 30 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : No.

: No. Data Retention : No.

: No. Webhooks : No.

: No. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : No.

: No. Status page included : No.

: No. Response time graph: No.

All in all, Monstatsic is a very straightforward and the simplest Pingdom alternative in this list. Apart from checking the status of the websites using status codes, you can use the option to verify it via specific text as well.

13. Monitive

Monitive is an advanced but quite limited in free version. But after comparing it with Pingdom, you will find it very cool. Here it allows you to check your websites from multiple locations and there is a detailed dashboard as well. You can easily add a monitor in this and then let it do the rest. It will show you the current status of the monitor that you add it on the main interface and it will throw notifications as well when it goes down. It works in the same way as others do. You can easily create a monitor in this and analyze the reports and other parameters.

Number of Monitors : 1

: 1 Ping interval : 10 minutes.

: 10 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : Yes.

: Yes. Data Retention : No.

: No. Webhooks : Yes, PagerDuty.

: Yes, PagerDuty. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : Not for free.

: Not for free. Status page included : No.

: No. Response time graph: Yes.

You can easily sign up for a free account for this service and then start using it to monitor your websites. Here it can even send the notifications on Twitter. You will just have to configure that. The reports section is good and shows detailed insights along with incident details. However, you cannot export that.

14. upTom

upTom is again a very simple and straightforward alternative to Pingdom that you can use. Here you just add your websites, specify check interval, and then leave it. It will keep checking the added monitors and will notify if it goes down. Additionally, there is an option in it to get the email alert after X seconds of inactivity. The interface of the website is simple. The monitor that you add in it will appear as a tile. And based on its status, its color will change. For consistent uptime, it will turn Green otherwise Red. However, the advantage here is that the check time can be variable and can be minimum as 30 seconds.

Number of Monitors : 1

: 1 Ping interval : 30 seconds to 60 minutes.

: 30 seconds to 60 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : No.

: No. Data Retention : No.

: No. Webhooks : No.

: No. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : No.

: No. Status page included : No.

: No. Response time graph: No.

This service only focuses on the uptime monitoring part. After adding the monitor, you can leave it on its own. It will keep sending you email notifications according to the specified parameters.

15. UPTIMIA

UPTIMIA is very limited in the free plan but it is worth mentioning this service in this list. This is a very powerful service that you can use monitor your websites with so many parameters. Here it offers you a detailed dashboard where you can see all your monitors. It create beautiful graph to make understand the response time and other monitoring parameters. This service can not only monitor the website uptime but its performance as well. Here it check your websites from a lot of different locations and offers you other features like uptime history, incidents log, detailed HTTP error reports, and some others. See the following list to get an idea about its different features.

Number of Monitors : 1

: 1 Ping interval : 5 minutes.

: 5 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : Yes.

: Yes. Data Retention : Yes.

: Yes. Webhooks : No.

: No. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : No.

: No. Status page included : No.

: No. Response time graph: Yes.

So, if you like the free part of this website then you can start using this website. Also, its features like detailed dashboard and reporting system is what I liked most. If you only want to to monitor a website with advanced features then it is a good Pingdom alternative.

16. WebGazer

WebGazer also lets you monitor website uptime and there is a limited free plan as well. You can only monitor a single website with this service and use the other useful features that it offers. It has very nice reporting system which you can use to see the response time, number of downtimes, average response time, and highest response time, etc. Some advanced features are not included in this service but something is better than nothing. Just sign up for a free account and then easily get started with this service. See the monitoring parameters overview of this website below.

Number of Monitors : 1

: 1 Ping interval : 5 minutes.

: 5 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : No.

: No. Data Retention : Yes.

: Yes. Webhooks : No.

: No. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : No.

: No. Status page included : No.

: No. Response time graph: Yes.

After signing up, you can simply add your websites in this and let it do the rest. It will keep checking the status of the website and will keep sending you the notifications.

17. Pingoscope

Pingoscope lets you check a couple of websites to track their uptime and send your notifications. It supports SMS and email notification and in SMS notifications, it even supports Skype to send SMSs. After creating a free account, you can simply start adding your monitors in it. It shows the current status on the main dashboard and you can analyze the reports as well. One of the plus point of using this service is that you can get free 5 SMS credits as well. Rest of the monitoring parameters are given below.

Number of Monitors : 2

: 2 Ping interval : 1 minute minimum.

: 1 minute minimum. Can Check from Multiple Locations : No.

: No. Data Retention : Yes, up to one month.

: Yes, up to one month. Webhooks : No.

: No. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : Yes, 50 in free plan.

: Yes, 50 in free plan. Status page included : Yes.

: Yes. Response time graph: No.

Even though, the free plan is limited but it is a good service. The user interface is simple and easy to use. You can use it it in place of Pingdom without any problem.

18. Monitor2

Monitor2 can be considered as a nice alternative to Pingdom if you need a simple website. Here it lets you monitor multiple websites for uptime and downtime monitoring. Here it is a quite intelligent website monitoring service that you can use to status. You can use this tool to monitor your website for a specific status code and you can specify “Alert after” number to get alerts after specific number of fails. While adding monitor, you can opt to specify more than one email address to receive the alerts. The lowest check interval on this website is 30 seconds but that is not available in free plan. In free plan, the minimum interval you can specify to check a target website is 1 minute. It keeps record of all the events that you can explore from the dashboard. See the more details below.

Number of Monitors : 2

: 2 Ping interval : 1 – 60 minutes.

: 1 – 60 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : No.

: No. Data Retention : Yes, up to one month.

: Yes, up to one month. Webhooks : No.

: No. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : Yes, 10 in free plan.

: Yes, 10 in free plan. Status page included : Yes.

: Yes. Response time graph: No.

This is a simple service to monitor uptime of a website. And I liked the alert after option of this website that is really helpful. Unlike other websites, it doesn’t start flooding your inbox when a website becomes unavailable. It only sends you notifications after a specific number of failed attempts, set by you.

19. SiteUptime

SiteUptime offers a basic free plan in the free version that you may like. Here, the free plan is very limited but the features are nice. Here this service offers you 8 different locations to monitor your websites and there is a feature in this called, “Alert Failure Limit”. With the help of this feature, you can opt to get email alert after specified number of times of failures. Apart from this, there is an option to web server, email server, FTP server, and POP3 server monitoring. Also, there is an option to make the stats of the current monitor public.

Number of Monitors : 1

: 1 Ping interval : 30, 60 minutes.

: 30, 60 minutes. Can Check from Multiple Locations : Yes.

: Yes. Data Retention : No.

: No. Webhooks : Yes.

: Yes. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : Not in free plan.

: Not in free plan. Status page included : No.

: No. Response time graph: Not in the free plan.

Sometime you don’t need to check websites so frequently. And in that case, this website can come in handy. You can easily monitor a single website along with all the nice features that it offers.

20. NotyIm

NotyIm is an open source alternative to Pingdom that you can use. You can either host it yourself on your own server or you can create a free account on its hosted version. It can show you the uptime and downtime of your websites that you add in on a graphical interface. And when your website is down, it immediately sends you an email alert so you can go and fix a website before your clients or users notify you about it. The checking interval is very frequent here and it can test the target website from two different locations. And apart from monitoring websites, you can use it to monitor a server, or a TCP port. Not only this, it gives you a status page as well that it lets you host on a subdomain that it lets you create. The detailed feature set is below.

Number of Monitors : 1.

: 1. Ping interval : 15 seconds.

: 15 seconds. Can Check from Multiple Locations : Yes, 2.

: Yes, 2. Data Retention : Yes, up to one month.

: Yes, up to one month. Webhooks : Yes, Slack.

: Yes, Slack. Email alerts : Yes.

: Yes. SMS Alerts : Not in free plan.

: Not in free plan. Status page included : Yes.

: Yes. Response time graph: Yes.

You can analyze the above data to see if this website’s matches your needs. If you have only one websites to monitor then you may consider this Pingdom alternative. You can also get its source source from GitHub and then simply hist it on your own server.

Wrap up…

If you are annoyed by the Pingdom’s decision to shut down its free plan then you can switch to any of the free alternatives that I have listed here. Although you can stick to Pingdom as it is offering its free users their lite plan at half cost for 2 years, but if you still want to walk away then it is okay. With the free alternatives I have listed here, you will be able to monitor the uptime and downtime of your websites in an efficient way. Some of the above services are definitely worth a shot if you are looking for a decent uptime monitoring service as a replacement for Pingdom. I will recommend you to use Uptime Robot, CULA, Freshping, and NotyIm if you need open source alternative. So, if you are searching for free Pingdom alternatives then this post will be really helpful.