Monitoring tools with a free plan in 2026

Check that services, hosts, networks and scheduled jobs are up and healthy, from inside and outside. This list has 115 monitoring tools. Of these, 67 are open source, 115 have a free plan and 74 can be self-hosted. Checked by hand on 30 September 2026.

  1. 1

    Akvorado

    Flow collector and visualizer that receives NetFlow, IPFIX and sFlow, enriches flows with interface and routing data, stores them in ClickHouse and shows them in a web UI.

    Free Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted NetworkDashboards
  2. 2

    AlertKick

    On-call rosters, escalation policies and paging by mobile push, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and email, with uptime, heartbeat and SSL checks and hosted status pages. Priced per server rather than per user.

    Free plan On-call schedulesEscalation policiesPhone and SMSMobile app
  3. 3

    Alibaba Cloud CloudMonitor

    Alibaba Cloud's monitoring service for its cloud resources and hybrid environments, with metrics, event alerts and support for Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry data.

    Free plan CloudMetrics
  4. 4

    Amazon CloudWatch

    AWS's native monitoring service: collects metrics and logs from AWS services and your apps, with alarms, dashboards, synthetic canaries and application signals.

    Free plan Free: 10 custom metrics, 10 alarms, 5 GB logs per month CloudMetricsLogsDashboards
  5. 5

    Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

    Serverless, Prometheus-compatible metrics store on AWS: remote-write metrics from EKS or other clusters and query them with PromQL.

    Free plan Free: 40M samples ingested, 10 GB stored (AWS Free Tier) CloudMetricsKubernetes
  6. 6

    Apache HertzBeat

    Agentless monitoring system from the Apache Software Foundation that polls servers, databases, middleware, network devices and websites through templates, with built-in alerting.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureMetricsUptime checks
  7. 7

    Assertible

    API testing and monitoring: define HTTP requests with assertions, run them on a schedule or after each deploy, and get alerted when a check fails.

    Free plan Synthetic checksUptime checksNotifications
  8. 8

    Azure Monitor

    Microsoft Azure's monitoring service for metrics, logs and traces from Azure resources and apps, including Application Insights, Log Analytics, alerts and managed Prometheus.

    Free plan CloudMetricsLogsAPM
  9. 9

    Beszel

    Lightweight self-hosted server monitor: a small agent reports CPU, memory, disk, network and Docker container stats to a hub that keeps history and sends alerts.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted InfrastructureMetrics
  10. 10

    Better Stack

    Observability suite that pairs uptime checks, logs and metrics with on-call schedules, escalation policies, phone and SMS alerts and hosted status pages.

    Free plan Free: 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page On-call schedulesEscalation policiesPhone and SMSUptime checks
  11. 11

    Blackbox exporter

    Prometheus exporter that probes endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, ICMP and gRPC and exposes the results as metrics you can alert on.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted Uptime checksMetrics
  12. 12

    Bleemeo

    Hosted monitoring for servers, containers and Kubernetes built on an open source agent, with uptime checks, dashboards and alert rules.

    Free plan Free: 3 servers, 5 uptime monitors InfrastructureKubernetesUptime checksDashboards
  13. 13

    Botkube

    Kubernetes ChatOps bot that posts cluster events and alerts to Slack, Discord or Mattermost and lets you run kubectl from chat.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted maintenance ChatOpsKubernetesNotifications
  14. 14

    Cacti

    Network graphing tool built on RRDtool: polls devices over SNMP or scripts and draws long-term graphs of traffic and system metrics.

    Free Open source (GPL-2.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureMetricsDashboards
  15. 15

    cAdvisor

    Google's container advisor: a daemon that collects resource usage and performance data for running containers and exposes it to Prometheus. Built into the kubelet.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesMetrics
  16. 16

    Centreon

    IT infrastructure and network monitoring platform that runs Nagios-compatible plugins, offered as open source and as commercial on-premises and cloud editions.

    Free plan Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureDashboards
  17. 17

    CheckCle

    Self-hosted open source monitor for HTTP, ping, TCP and DNS uptime, server metrics and SSL expiry, with incident tracking and public status pages.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted Uptime checksInfrastructureStatus page
  18. 18

    Checkly

    Synthetic monitoring for developers: API checks and Playwright browser checks written as code, deployed from CI and run from many regions.

    Free plan Free: 1 user, 10k API and 1k browser check runs/mo Synthetic checksUptime checksHeartbeats
  19. 19

    Checkmate

    Self-hosted open source monitor from BlueWave Labs for HTTP, ping, TCP port, DNS, WebSocket and gRPC checks, with an optional agent for server hardware metrics and status pages.

    Free Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted Uptime checksInfrastructureStatus page
  20. 20

    Checkmk

    Infrastructure monitoring for servers, networks, cloud and containers with automatic service discovery; the base edition is open source and paid editions add more.

    Free plan Open source (GPL-2.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureKubernetesDashboards
  21. 21

    Cloudprober

    Active prober that started at Google: runs HTTP, DNS, ping, TCP, gRPC and custom probes and exports latency and success metrics to Prometheus and other backends.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted Uptime checksSynthetic checksMetrics
  22. 22

    ClusterControl

    Severalnines platform to deploy, monitor and manage open source database clusters such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis on your own servers or cloud.

    Free plan Free: Community edition: deploy and monitor clusters Self-hosted DatabasesMetrics
  23. 23

    Coroot

    Open source observability that uses eBPF to build service maps and collect metrics, logs, traces and profiles without code changes, with root-cause hints.

    Free plan Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted APMMetricsTracesKubernetes
  24. 24

    cronalive

    Heartbeat monitoring for cron jobs with HTTP uptime and TLS expiry checks, plus Laravel, Python and Node packages that create checks from code.

    Free plan Free: 10 checks, 5-min HTTP interval, 50k pings/mo HeartbeatsUptime checksNotifications
  25. 25

    Cronitor

    Monitoring for cron jobs, background workers and scheduled tasks that tracks run duration and failures, plus website uptime checks and status pages.

    Free plan Free: 5 monitors, email and Slack alerts HeartbeatsUptime checksStatus page
  26. 26

    Dead Man's Snitch

    Dead man's switch for cron jobs and scheduled tasks: each job checks in to a unique URL, and a missed check-in triggers an alert.

    Free plan Free: 1 snitch HeartbeatsNotifications
  27. 27

    DigitalOcean Monitoring

    Built-in metrics and alert policies for DigitalOcean Droplets and other resources, collected by a small agent, at no extra charge.

    Free CloudMetricsInfrastructure
  28. 28

    Downtime Monkey

    Website uptime monitoring with downtime alerts and a generous free plan, aimed at small sites and people watching many client websites.

    Free plan Free: 60 websites Uptime checksNotifications
  29. 29

    Dozzle

    Small web UI that streams and searches live Docker container logs across hosts, with no log storage. Optional Dozzle Cloud adds grouped alerts and log analysis.

    Free plan Open source (MIT) Self-hosted LogsInfrastructure
  30. 30

    Drumbeats

    Cron job, heartbeat and uptime monitoring with incident tracking and status pages, billed by check-in volume rather than monitor count.

    Free plan Free: 200K check-ins (beats)/mo HeartbeatsUptime checksStatus page
  31. 31

    ElastiFlow

    Flow and SNMP collector that ships network flow records to Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and other stores, with ready-made dashboards and security detections.

    Free plan Free: Basic: 4,000 records/s, 25 SNMP devices Self-hosted NetworkDashboards
  32. 32

    FlareWarden

    Uptime, SSL, DNS and page-content monitoring that confirms an outage from several regions before alerting, with cron checks and status pages.

    Free plan Free: 15 monitors, 5-min checks Uptime checksHeartbeatsStatus page
  33. 33

    Freelens

    Community-maintained open source Kubernetes desktop IDE, forked from OpenLens, for managing clusters and viewing workloads, metrics and logs.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted KubernetesDashboards
  34. 34

    Gatus

    Health dashboard configured in YAML: checks HTTP, TCP, DNS, ICMP and other endpoints against conditions on status, body and latency, and alerts to many channels. Also sold as a hosted service.

    Free plan Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted Uptime checksStatus pageNotifications
  35. 35

    Glances

    Cross-platform system monitor in Python that shows CPU, memory, disk, network, processes and containers in a terminal, a web UI or a REST API.

    Free Open source (LGPL-3.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureMetrics
  36. 36

    Google Cloud Observability

    Google Cloud's suite (formerly Stackdriver) of Cloud Monitoring, Logging and Trace for metrics, logs, uptime checks and alerting on Google Cloud and other environments.

    Free plan Free: 150 MiB metrics per billing account, 50 GiB logs/project CloudMetricsLogsTraces
  37. 37

    groundcover

    Kubernetes observability that uses an eBPF sensor and runs in your own cloud account, covering logs, traces, metrics and APM without code changes.

    Free plan Self-hosted KubernetesAPMLogsTraces
  38. 38

    Headlamp

    Kubernetes web UI and desktop app, now a Kubernetes SIG UI project, for browsing cluster resources, logs and events, extensible with plugins.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesDashboards
  39. 39

    Healthchecks.io

    Cron job and heartbeat monitoring: each job pings a unique URL, and a missed or late ping sends an alert. The server is open source and can be self-hosted.

    Free plan Free: 20 jobs Open source (BSD-3-Clause) Self-hosted HeartbeatsNotifications
  40. 40

    HetrixTools

    Uptime monitoring for websites and servers checked every minute from 12 locations, with an optional server agent, status pages and IP/domain blacklist monitoring.

    Free plan Free: 15 uptime monitors, 1-min checks Uptime checksInfrastructureStatus page
  41. 41

    Hubble

    Network observability layer for Cilium that shows service dependencies, network flows and DNS and HTTP traffic between Kubernetes workloads, using eBPF.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesNetwork
  42. 42

    Hyperping

    Uptime, browser and cron job monitoring bundled with status pages and incident updates, plus a small server monitoring agent.

    Free plan Free: 20 monitors, 5-min checks Uptime checksSynthetic checksHeartbeatsStatus page
  43. 43

    Icinga

    Monitoring system that grew out of Nagios: checks hosts and services with plugins, scales across distributed zones, and is configured through files or an API.

    Free plan Open source (GPL-3.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureDashboards
  44. 44

    Inspektor Gadget

    CNCF project of eBPF-based tools (gadgets) for inspecting and debugging Kubernetes workloads and Linux hosts, from network traces to process and file activity.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesInfrastructure
  45. 45

    K8sGPT

    CLI and operator that scans Kubernetes clusters for problems and explains them in plain language using an LLM backend of your choice. CNCF sandbox project.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesIncident response
  46. 46

    k9s

    Terminal UI for Kubernetes that lists and watches cluster resources in real time and lets you view logs, exec into pods and act on resources with keystrokes.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted Kubernetes
  47. 47

    kube-state-metrics

    Kubernetes add-on that listens to the API server and exposes the state of objects such as deployments, pods and nodes as Prometheus metrics.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesMetrics
  48. 48

    Kubernetes Dashboard

    The former official web UI for viewing and managing workloads and resources in a Kubernetes cluster.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted archived KubernetesDashboards
  49. 49

    kubernetes-event-exporter

    Exports Kubernetes events to sinks such as Slack, Opsgenie, Elasticsearch, Kafka or webhooks, so events can be kept and alerted on.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesNotifications
  50. 50

    Kubeshark

    Captures and dissects API traffic between Kubernetes pods (HTTP, gRPC, Kafka, DNS and more) so you can inspect requests cluster-wide, like Wireshark for Kubernetes.

    Free plan Free: Community: up to 3 nodes and 60 pods Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesNetwork
  51. 51

    Kubewatch

    Kubernetes watcher that reports resource changes in the cluster to Slack, Mattermost and other chat channels or to a webhook.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesNotifications
  52. 52

    Kuvasz Uptime

    Self-hosted uptime and SSL certificate monitor with brandable public or private status pages, maintenance windows and alerts to common chat and email channels.

    Free Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted Uptime checksStatus pageNotifications
  53. 53

    LastPing

    Dead man's switch monitoring for cron jobs, CI pipelines and AI agents, with an MCP server so agents can set up their own monitors.

    Free plan Free: Free for individuals HeartbeatsUptime checks
  54. 54

    Lens

    Desktop Kubernetes IDE for browsing clusters, resource metrics and logs across many clusters. Free for individuals and small organizations; paid plans add team and enterprise features.

    Free plan Free: Personal plan: orgs under $10M revenue or funding Self-hosted KubernetesDashboards
  55. 55

    LibreNMS

    Network monitoring system with automatic SNMP discovery, graphs and alerting, supporting a long list of network hardware vendors.

    Free Open source (GPL-3.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureMetrics
  56. 56

    Longview

    Akamai Cloud (Linode) system graphing service: an open source agent reports CPU, memory, disk and network per process. Longview Pro adds 1-minute data and full history.

    Free plan Free: Up to 10 clients, 5-min data, 12h history CloudInfrastructureMetrics
  57. 57

    ManageEngine OpManager

    On-premises network and server monitoring for routers, switches, firewalls, Windows and Linux hosts and virtual machines.

    Free plan Free: Free edition: 3 devices Self-hosted Infrastructure
  58. 58

    MarionetteOps

    Uptime, SSL, domain, cron and agent-based server monitoring aimed at agencies, with client-facing status pages.

    Free plan Free: 20 uptime + 20 server monitors Uptime checksInfrastructureHeartbeatsStatus page
  59. 59

    Metrics Server

    Cluster-wide aggregator of CPU and memory usage from kubelets, serving the Metrics API used by kubectl top and the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesMetrics
  60. 60

    Monika

    Command-line synthetic monitor from Hyperjump: define HTTP, TCP, ping and database probes in a YAML file, run them anywhere, and send alerts to many channels.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted Uptime checksSynthetic checksNotifications
  61. 61

    Monit

    Small Unix daemon that watches processes, files, filesystems and hosts and can restart a service or send an alert when a check fails. M/Monit is the paid central console.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureNotifications
  62. 62

    Monitorable

    Hosted Linux server monitoring with a one-command install of an open source OpenTelemetry-based agent, default alert rules, and alerts by email, Telegram, Discord, Slack, ntfy, webhook or PagerDuty.

    Free plan Free: 3 servers InfrastructureMetrics
  63. 63

    MonitorMonk

    Uptime monitoring for websites and API endpoints with SSL, keyword, HTTP status and response-time checks, plus shareable dashboards.

    Free plan Free: 10 websites, 2 dashboards Uptime checksStatus page
  64. 64

    Munin

    Networked resource monitoring: a master polls lightweight node agents and their plugins and graphs server metrics over time.

    Free Open source (GPL-2.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureMetrics
  65. 65

    mysqld_exporter

    Official Prometheus exporter for MySQL and MariaDB that exposes server status, InnoDB and replication metrics.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted DatabasesMetrics
  66. 66

    Naemon

    Fork of the Nagios 4 core with performance improvements, compatible with Nagios configuration files and plugins.

    Free Open source (GPL-2.0) Self-hosted Infrastructure
  67. 67

    Nagios Core

    Long-running open source host and service checker with a large plugin ecosystem; Nagios XI is the commercial edition built on it.

    Free plan Open source (GPL-2.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureNotifications
  68. 68

    NetAlertX

    Self-hosted scanner that discovers devices on your network and alerts when new, unknown or offline devices appear.

    Free Open source (GPL-3.0) Self-hosted NetworkNotifications
  69. 69

    Netdata

    Per-second metrics for servers, containers and applications from an agent with built-in dashboards and alerts, plus the optional hosted Netdata Cloud.

    Free plan Free: 5 nodes, non-commercial use Open source (GPL-3.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureMetricsDashboardsKubernetes
  70. 70

    Netdisco

    Open source network management tool that discovers switches and routers over SNMP and lets you locate devices by MAC or IP, browse ports and track inventory.

    Free Open source (BSD-3-Clause) Self-hosted NetworkInfrastructure
  71. 71

    NetXMS

    Network and infrastructure management system with SNMP discovery, network maps, server agents and event correlation; an Enterprise edition adds support and features.

    Free plan Open source Self-hosted Infrastructure
  72. 72

    Nezha

    Self-hosted monitoring panel for small server fleets: agents report host status and resource use, and the panel can run uptime checks and remote tasks.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureUptime checks
  73. 73

    ntopng

    Web-based network traffic monitor that analyses packets or flows to show top talkers, applications, hosts and alerts. Open source Community edition with paid Pro and Enterprise versions.

    Free plan Open source (GPL-3.0) Self-hosted NetworkInfrastructure
  74. 74

    Observium

    Network monitoring platform with SNMP auto-discovery of devices; a free Community Edition and a paid Professional edition with faster updates.

    Free plan Self-hosted InfrastructureMetrics
  75. 75

    OCI Monitoring

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's metrics and alarms service for OCI resources and custom application metrics, queried with its Monitoring Query Language.

    Free plan CloudMetrics
  76. 76

    OnlineOrNot

    Uptime monitoring for websites and APIs, browser checks, cron job heartbeats and status pages, run by a small independent team.

    Free plan Free: 2 users, 3-min check interval Uptime checksSynthetic checksHeartbeatsStatus page
  77. 77

    openITCOCKPIT

    Monitoring suite that manages Naemon checks through a web interface, with Checkmk and Grafana integration; community and enterprise editions.

    Free plan Open source (GPL-3.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureDashboards
  78. 78

    OpenNMS

    Network management platform for fault and performance monitoring at scale; Horizon is the open source edition and Meridian the supported one.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureMetrics
  79. 79

    Pandora FMS

    Monitoring for servers, networks, applications and logs, with an open source community edition and a commercial enterprise edition.

    Free plan Open source Self-hosted InfrastructureLogs
  80. 80

    Peekaping

    Self-hosted uptime monitor written in Go with a React UI, built as an alternative to Uptime Kuma, with status pages and pluggable notification channels.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted Uptime checksStatus pageNotifications
  81. 81

    Percona Monitoring and Management

    Open source monitoring for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Valkey: a server and client agents collect metrics and query analytics, with Grafana-based dashboards and alerting.

    Free Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted DatabasesMetricsDashboards
  82. 82

    pgBadger

    PostgreSQL log analyzer that turns server logs into HTML reports on slow queries, errors, locks, checkpoints and connections.

    Free Open source (PostgreSQL) Self-hosted DatabasesLogs
  83. 83

    PgHero

    Small web dashboard for Postgres that shows slow queries, index usage, table bloat and connection counts. Runs as a Rails engine or a Docker container.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted DatabasesDashboards
  84. 84

    pgMonitor

    Crunchy Data's bundle of Prometheus exporter queries, alert rules and Grafana dashboards for monitoring PostgreSQL and its hosts.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted DatabasesMetricsDashboards
  85. 85

    pgwatch

    PostgreSQL monitoring from Cybertec that gathers metrics with SQL queries and stores them in Postgres or Prometheus for the bundled Grafana dashboards.

    Free Open source (BSD-3-Clause) Self-hosted DatabasesMetricsDashboards
  86. 86

    Phare

    Uptime monitoring with incident management and status pages, billed by the number of check requests rather than per monitor.

    Free plan Free: 100,000 monitoring events/mo Uptime checksStatus pageIncident response
  87. 87

    Pingmeter

    Uptime monitoring for HTTP, HTTPS, SSH and custom TCP ports, with SMS and voice alerts on paid plans.

    Free plan Free: Fewer than 5 uptime monitors Uptime checksPhone and SMS
  88. 88

    PingPlotter

    Network troubleshooting tool that runs continuous traceroutes to chart latency and packet loss hop by hop. Desktop editions include a free version; the Cloud edition monitors remote users.

    Free plan Network
  89. 89

    Pixie

    Kubernetes observability that uses eBPF to capture service traffic, metrics and CPU profiles automatically; a CNCF sandbox project.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesAPMMetrics
  90. 90

    pmacct

    Set of passive network monitoring daemons that collect NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, BGP and BMP data and export traffic accounting to databases or message brokers.

    Free Open source (GPL-2.0) Self-hosted Network
  91. 91

    postgres_exporter

    Prometheus exporter that exposes PostgreSQL server statistics as metrics for Prometheus to scrape and alert on.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted DatabasesMetrics
  92. 92

    PoWA

    PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer: collects query statistics from pg_stat_statements and related extensions into a history you browse in a web UI, with index suggestions.

    Free Open source (PostgreSQL) Self-hosted DatabasesMetrics
  93. 93

    Prometheus Operator

    Kubernetes operator that deploys and configures Prometheus and Alertmanager from custom resources. Its kube-prometheus project and the kube-prometheus-stack Helm chart bundle a full cluster monitoring setup.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted KubernetesMetrics
  94. 94

    PRTG Network Monitor

    Windows-based network and server monitoring from Paessler built around sensors for SNMP, WMI, flows, ping and HTTP, with maps and dashboards.

    Free plan Free: Freeware edition: 100 sensors Self-hosted InfrastructureDashboards
  95. 95

    Pulsetic

    Website uptime and SSL monitoring with status pages, incident notes and pay-per-alert SMS and phone calls.

    Free plan Uptime checksStatus pagePhone and SMS
  96. 96

    Robusta

    Kubernetes alert enrichment and routing on top of Prometheus: adds pod logs, events and graphs to alerts and sends them to Slack, Teams and other sinks. Open source core plus a paid SaaS.

    Free plan Open source (MIT) Self-hosted KubernetesAlert routing
  97. 97

    Runitor

    Command runner for Healthchecks.io: wraps a job, sends start, success or failure pings with its output, and also works with self-hosted Healthchecks.

    Free Open source (0BSD) Self-hosted Heartbeats
  98. 98

    Scaleway Cockpit

    Scaleway's observability service built on Grafana, Mimir, Loki and Tempo, collecting metrics and logs from Scaleway products by default and accepting external data.

    Free plan CloudMetricsLogsDashboards
  99. 99

    Scrutiny

    Web dashboard for hard drive S.M.A.R.T. data that tracks disk health over time and warns before a drive fails.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted Infrastructure
  100. 100

    Sensu

    Monitoring event pipeline for dynamic infrastructure: agents run checks, and filters and handlers route the results to alerting and metrics tools, all managed as code.

    Free plan Open source (MIT) Self-hosted InfrastructureAlert routing
  101. 101

    Servervana

    Uptime monitoring with HTTP, browser, DNS and domain checks and status pages, built for larger projects with many teams.

    Free plan Uptime checksSynthetic checksStatus page
  102. 102

    Simple Observability

    Hosted server monitoring that collects metrics and logs through one agent, with dashboards and alerts and little setup.

    Free plan Free: 1 server, 50 metrics InfrastructureMetricsLogs
  103. 103

    Site24x7

    Zoho's monitoring suite for websites, servers, networks, applications and cloud, with synthetic transactions and RUM; plain uptime checks have a free plan.

    Free plan Free: Uptime checks for 50 resources, email alerts Uptime checksSynthetic checksInfrastructureAPM
  104. 104

    Sitesure

    Heartbeat and scheduled-task monitoring alongside website uptime, SSL, DNS and domain checks, priced per monitor.

    Free plan Free: 2 monitors HeartbeatsUptime checks
  105. 105

    SmokePing

    Latency monitor that probes hosts continuously and graphs latency and packet loss distribution over time.

    Free Open source (GPL-2.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureMetrics
  106. 106

    StatusCake

    Website monitoring with uptime, page speed, domain and SSL checks from test locations around the world.

    Free plan Free: 10 uptime monitors, 5-min intervals Uptime checksNotifications
  107. 107

    SweetUptime

    Uptime, domain, SSL and server monitoring from DiCloud, with status pages and downtime alerts.

    Free plan Free: 20 uptime monitors, 10 servers Uptime checksInfrastructureStatus page
  108. 108

    Uptime Kuma

    Self-hosted monitor for HTTP, keyword, TCP, ping, DNS, Docker and push checks, with status pages and dozens of notification integrations.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted Uptime checksHeartbeatsStatus pageNotifications
  109. 109

    UptimeFlare

    Serverless uptime monitor and status page that runs on Cloudflare Workers, checking HTTP and TCP endpoints and sending notifications.

    Free Open source (Apache-2.0) Self-hosted Uptime checksStatus page
  110. 110

    UptimeObserver

    Uptime, SSL and domain monitoring with a customizable status page and email and Telegram alerts, free plan allowed for commercial use.

    Free plan Free: 20 monitors, 5-min interval, 1 status page Uptime checksStatus page
  111. 111

    UptimeRobot

    Uptime monitoring for websites, APIs, ports, ping, keywords, SSL, DNS and cron heartbeats, with status pages and team alerting.

    Free plan Free: 50 monitors, 5-min interval Uptime checksHeartbeatsStatus page
  112. 112

    WatchCron

    Cron job monitoring with heartbeat pings and alerts, plus hosted cron jobs that call your URLs on a schedule.

    Free plan Free: 20 checks, 3 cloud cron jobs HeartbeatsNotifications
  113. 113

    Watchgoose

    Heartbeat monitoring and status pages for cron jobs, backups and background workers, with an MCP server and free plans for open source projects.

    Free plan Free: 10 checks, 1 user HeartbeatsStatus pageNotifications
  114. 114

    Xymon

    Long-standing system and network monitor that shows host and service status on a color-coded web page, with client agents for host data.

    Free Open source Self-hosted Infrastructure
  115. 115

    Zabbix

    Open source monitoring for networks, servers, VMs, applications and cloud, using agents, SNMP and templates with trigger-based alerting; Zabbix Cloud is the hosted option.

    Free plan Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted InfrastructureMetricsDashboards

Side by side

Tool Pricing Free plan Open source Self-hosted
Akvorado Free Yes Yes Yes
AlertKick Free plan Yes No No
Alibaba Cloud CloudMonitor Free plan Yes No No
Amazon CloudWatch Free plan 10 custom metrics, 10 alarms, 5 GB logs per month No No
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Free plan 40M samples ingested, 10 GB stored (AWS Free Tier) No No
Apache HertzBeat Free Yes Yes Yes
Assertible Free plan Yes No No
Azure Monitor Free plan Yes No No
Beszel Free Yes Yes Yes
Better Stack Free plan 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page No No
Blackbox exporter Free Yes Yes Yes
Bleemeo Free plan 3 servers, 5 uptime monitors No No
Botkube Free Yes Yes Yes
Cacti Free Yes Yes Yes
cAdvisor Free Yes Yes Yes
Centreon Free plan Yes Yes Yes
CheckCle Free Yes Yes Yes
Checkly Free plan 1 user, 10k API and 1k browser check runs/mo No No
Checkmate Free Yes Yes Yes
Checkmk Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Cloudprober Free Yes Yes Yes
ClusterControl Free plan Community edition: deploy and monitor clusters No Yes
Coroot Free plan Yes Yes Yes
cronalive Free plan 10 checks, 5-min HTTP interval, 50k pings/mo No No
Cronitor Free plan 5 monitors, email and Slack alerts No No
Dead Man's Snitch Free plan 1 snitch No No
DigitalOcean Monitoring Free Yes No No
Downtime Monkey Free plan 60 websites No No
Dozzle Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Drumbeats Free plan 200K check-ins (beats)/mo No No
ElastiFlow Free plan Basic: 4,000 records/s, 25 SNMP devices No Yes
FlareWarden Free plan 15 monitors, 5-min checks No No
Freelens Free Yes Yes Yes
Gatus Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Glances Free Yes Yes Yes
Google Cloud Observability Free plan 150 MiB metrics per billing account, 50 GiB logs/project No No
groundcover Free plan Yes No Yes
Headlamp Free Yes Yes Yes
Healthchecks.io Free plan 20 jobs Yes Yes
HetrixTools Free plan 15 uptime monitors, 1-min checks No No
Hubble Free Yes Yes Yes
Hyperping Free plan 20 monitors, 5-min checks No No
Icinga Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Inspektor Gadget Free Yes Yes Yes
K8sGPT Free Yes Yes Yes
k9s Free Yes Yes Yes
kube-state-metrics Free Yes Yes Yes
Kubernetes Dashboard Free Yes Yes Yes
kubernetes-event-exporter Free Yes Yes Yes
Kubeshark Free plan Community: up to 3 nodes and 60 pods Yes Yes
Kubewatch Free Yes Yes Yes
Kuvasz Uptime Free Yes Yes Yes
LastPing Free plan Free for individuals No No
Lens Free plan Personal plan: orgs under $10M revenue or funding No Yes
LibreNMS Free Yes Yes Yes
Longview Free plan Up to 10 clients, 5-min data, 12h history No No
ManageEngine OpManager Free plan Free edition: 3 devices No Yes
MarionetteOps Free plan 20 uptime + 20 server monitors No No
Metrics Server Free Yes Yes Yes
Monika Free Yes Yes Yes
Monit Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Monitorable Free plan 3 servers No No
MonitorMonk Free plan 10 websites, 2 dashboards No No
Munin Free Yes Yes Yes
mysqld_exporter Free Yes Yes Yes
Naemon Free Yes Yes Yes
Nagios Core Free plan Yes Yes Yes
NetAlertX Free Yes Yes Yes
Netdata Free plan 5 nodes, non-commercial use Yes Yes
Netdisco Free Yes Yes Yes
NetXMS Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Nezha Free Yes Yes Yes
ntopng Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Observium Free plan Yes No Yes
OCI Monitoring Free plan Yes No No
OnlineOrNot Free plan 2 users, 3-min check interval No No
openITCOCKPIT Free plan Yes Yes Yes
OpenNMS Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Pandora FMS Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Peekaping Free Yes Yes Yes
Percona Monitoring and Management Free Yes Yes Yes
pgBadger Free Yes Yes Yes
PgHero Free Yes Yes Yes
pgMonitor Free Yes Yes Yes
pgwatch Free Yes Yes Yes
Phare Free plan 100,000 monitoring events/mo No No
Pingmeter Free plan Fewer than 5 uptime monitors No No
PingPlotter Free plan Yes No No
Pixie Free Yes Yes Yes
pmacct Free Yes Yes Yes
postgres_exporter Free Yes Yes Yes
PoWA Free Yes Yes Yes
Prometheus Operator Free Yes Yes Yes
PRTG Network Monitor Free plan Freeware edition: 100 sensors No Yes
Pulsetic Free plan Yes No No
Robusta Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Runitor Free Yes Yes Yes
Scaleway Cockpit Free plan Yes No No
Scrutiny Free Yes Yes Yes
Sensu Free plan Yes Yes Yes
Servervana Free plan Yes No No
Simple Observability Free plan 1 server, 50 metrics No No
Site24x7 Free plan Uptime checks for 50 resources, email alerts No No
Sitesure Free plan 2 monitors No No
SmokePing Free Yes Yes Yes
StatusCake Free plan 10 uptime monitors, 5-min intervals No No
SweetUptime Free plan 20 uptime monitors, 10 servers No No
Uptime Kuma Free Yes Yes Yes
UptimeFlare Free Yes Yes Yes
UptimeObserver Free plan 20 monitors, 5-min interval, 1 status page No No
UptimeRobot Free plan 50 monitors, 5-min interval No No
WatchCron Free plan 20 checks, 3 cloud cron jobs No No
Watchgoose Free plan 10 checks, 1 user No No
Xymon Free Yes Yes Yes
Zabbix Free plan Yes Yes Yes

Plans and prices change; check each tool's own site before you decide.

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