Useful Free Uptime Monitoring Services For Your Server
| |One of many factors to consider before you buy a VPS is uptime. Especially if you want to use that VPS to host your high traffic websites. Down time is really really bad and it hurts SEO badly. Hence, it is better to know faster when your sites go down. Remember, an offline website doesn’t earn $$. Ensure you stay online.
Here in this page I compiled several website’s uptime monitoring services those are also offering free plans. Obviously there are downsides of using free plan compared to the premium plans but it is still worth it to try. You may consider to upgrade if your websites get serious amount of traffic and so your revenue 🙂
Let’s start the list with the one that I think the best of all other, meet Pingdom.
1. Pingdom
Pingdom is not just a web app providing uptime monitoring service but also other useful tools like website speed test, DNS health checker, ping and traceroute. Cheapest plan or their premium plans is available for $6.96 allowing you to have 10 checks plus 20 sms alerts per month. But there is a free plan that lets you monitor one website/server and includes Real User Monitoring. [link]
2. Uptime Robot
This one is also my very favorite. First because it is free (there is no paid plan in fact) and secondly because you can have 50 checks (that means 50 websites/servers to monitor) and each checked every 5 minutes, the shortest interval ever available for free service. Uh and they provide API too. How awesome is that! [link]
3. Monitor.us
It is the free version of Monitis and it is built by the same company as TeamViewer. Monitor.Us is feature-rich, cloud-based service that monitors IT systems of all sizes from an easy-to-use, all-in one dashboard. And it’s free. No gimmicks, no contracts, no charge to you. Setup in just 3 minutes and discover the free monitoring tools at your disposal. They offer website monitoring, network monitoring, full-page load monitoring, server monitoring and mobile monitoring. [http://www.monitor.us/en/website-monitoring] **Update: Monitor.us has been acquired by Monitis.
4. Host Tracker
“be the first to know when your website is down,” that’s their main slogan. Just like many other services, Host-tracker also provides free uptime monitoring plan. With their free plan you can have 2 URLs with 30 minutes monitoring interval each. That’s worth it. Premium plan available starting from $3.25/month for 5 URLs with 10 minutes checking interval. [link]
5. Basic State
Be first to find out about network outages, server outages, server overload, or dns configuration problems. With their service you can check your websites every 15 minutes, get trouble alerts by email, and daily uptime report with 14 day history. [link]
6. Status Cake
This one is also my favorite. Their website has very nice design and sleek user interface. StatusCake.com has a network of monitoring centres throughout the world. With centres across Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, many of which support IPv6, you can choose where your website’s uptime is monitored from and how often. The best part, free plan can get 5 minutes check interval plus real browser testing feature. You should also try it. [link]
7. Uptime Spy
Their service is really reliable although with free plan you can only have 1 check or 1 website to monitor. The preimum plan allows you to monitor up to 30 websites. Their main features including World Geographic Monitoring Nodes, Uptime Reports, Multiple Location Checks, Public and Email Reports, and so on. [link]
8. MonTools
Their website has very simple interface but their service is really feature-rich. It checks your website or server at regular intervals specified by you and sends you an email, sms, twitter alert or a voice phone call (paid) as soon as it detects that your site is down. Even the free plan can have website monitoring, https monitoring, FTP monitoring, Apache monitoring, MySQL monitoring, IMAP, POP3 and SMTP monitoring plus DNS and Ping monitoring. Unluckily monitoring interval for the free plan is 30 minutes to 1 day. [link]
9. Site 24×7
Their free plan offers basic monitoring with 5 websites at 10 min poll interval. Basic monitoring supports: HTTP(S), FTP(S), DNS, PING, TCP, SSL, SMTP, POP, etc. [link]
10. Montastic
You get free monitoring service for few sites every 30 minutes. [link]
11. Free Site Status
They monitor your websites and servers from a network of 16 worldwide monitoring stations. They employ advanced verification technology to avoid false alarm. Monitoring interval for free plan is 60 minutes. [link]
12. Internetseer
Featuring false alarm protection. Free plan get 60 minutes monitoring interval.
13. Site Uptime
Free plan can get: 1 monitor, 30/60 minutes check, public statistic page, and of course updtime button [link]
14. LiveWatch
Free plan can get: 1 monitor, 10 minutes interval in normal and 5 minutes interfal in failure. The best part, 1 sms alert is available for free per month. [link]
15. Service Uptime
A free account lets you monitor one service and will check on your site or server every 30 minutes. [link]
16. Uptime Dog
Their free website monitoring service is here right for you. It will check availability of your website every 2 minutes to see if it is online and working, and notifies you to your email address if it is down. [link]
17. 100 Pulse
100pulse.com offers two website monitoring for free with minimum interval of 15 minutes. [link]
18. Binary Canary
Their free account allows you to monitor up to 5 http/https pages at 15 minute intervals. [link]
19. New Relic
NewRelic.com is more than just uptime monitoring. Their service allows users to monitor performance of web apps, mobile apps, servers, even database and caching. Their free server monitoring tool allows users to get alerts for server health issues, including CPU utilization, memory utilization, disk I/O utilization, and disk capacity. Their free plan is available with basic features and 24 hours data retention with no advanced priority support. [link]
20. Anturis
Anturis offers a variety of monitoring plans to meet your IT infrastructure size. They have free website monitoring plan offering 5 monitors, 1 minute polling periode (wow..), and unlimited email alerts. [link]
21. Happy Apps
HappyApps.io offers great service to check and monitor status of all your apps and IT systems at once. It is capable to monitor wide variety apps from DBs, MQs, App Servers, Web Servers to custom apps. Checks are repeatedly executed on intervals of 1 to 5 minutes. Check can also execute custom queries and Regex searches. There is free plan features 5 checks with 5 minute monitoring interval. [link]
22. CloudStats.me
CloudStats is considered new service but they are offering generous quota uptime monitoring for free. Each free user can monitor his/her website’s uptime up to 100 websites per minute from 13+ locations worldwide [link]
23. Monitority
Monitority.com boasts its service as totally free. It monitors your website for any downtime every minute. It provides unlimited websites/IPs/urls monitoring and it sends alert via email, text-sms, and tweet. The best part, all of those features are free. It doesn’t even have Premium or Pro plans. [link]
Key features :
- Supports monitoring of domains, urls and ip addresses
- HTTP / HTTPS with SNI
- Unlimited number of checks
- Unlimited data retention
- Ping interval < 1 minute
- Multiple geographic locations
- Downtime notifications via Email, Twitter or SMS (all free)
- Simple & Intuitive user interface
- Tracks up/down and response time
- Built-in panic thresholds
24. RapidSpike
This new uptime monitoring service offers free account with following features : unlimited websites/IPs/urls to monitor, 1-60 minutes check interval, unlimited users, custom notification rules, detailed report, and content matching features. It is very interesting to have custom notification rules that allowing a user to escalate server issues to different team members based on length of down-time. According to its Features page, RapidSpike also provides SEO Tracking feature that will track your site’s ongoing SEO scores on a number of metrics, including page links and domain MozRank. Check out all of its features here [link]
Which one?
So, which one do you use? Or may be you have another free service in mind? Why don’t you tell me so I can add to the list. Need recommendation? If you need to monitor only 1 site / server, use Pingdom. Need more? UptimeRobot is the best.
You can add newrelic.com to the list.
Great..thx
Hi Sawiyati
We are just launching in the UK. http://Www.Rapidspike.com
The beta goes live next week. It’s free and we are encouraging people to take a look.
Robin
any info about pricing details? Couldn’t wait to see the Load Testing feature goes live 🙂
That is a great question 🙂 The load testing will depend on the number of concurrent users and duration. That said, our goal is to make our pricing insanely affordable.
I think I can add one more tool Anturis (http://www.anturis.com) as well for server monitoring and website monitoring. It is not worth than any other tools here.
OK. Added. Thanks 🙂
Great list, it’s useful to know how frequently each one monitors your website. I’ve used Pingdom, but it gets quite expensive – well too expensive for a freelancer that has dozens of websites to monitor.
I’m currently trialing StatusBeacon.io – they monitor your website every 60 seconds and allow you to monitor unlimited websites. They don’t have as many features as most of the other web apps you listed, they’re missing SMS messages but they send email alerts which is good enough and all I need.
StatusBeacon.io seems nice but its not free 🙁
nodequery.com is in beta, you can monitor up to 10 server for free. Great ui.
I personally use uptimerobot.com. Just nothing to say – 50 websites, check each 5 minutes, mail notifications, nice GUI on website, and they also have APP for android. 5/5stars
And it is for FREE 😉
Totally agree with you Martin, also, it has API so we can use cool script like Upscuits for tracking uptime of several websites/servers
I will try Upscuit later, for this moment i found a module for Drupal.
I’m testing statuscake.com.
I liked their public page…
Hi Sawiyati, please add http://www.uptimedoctor.com to the list.
Most companies do not offer enterprise-grade (1-min interval) monitoring for free. For those who do, usually only 1 URL is allowed. Uptime Doctor is the only company that lets you monitor 5 URLs every minute, completely FREE. This is more than enough for small businesses, developers and bloggers.
With http://uptimeter.com you can easy monitor your website’s uptime without need of IT skills to setup service
Please take a look into our new availability monitoring tool https://www.adminlabs.com
Hello
More ofthen than not knowing just the server’s status doing a basic host alive check or knowing just the uptime of the server doen’t throw up enough clue on the real status of the webpage.
On ocasions we need to consider checking the services running on the server, checking the whole navigational process and checking the status of our desktop computers, the status of the network components at our companies and even homes.
In addition let’s consider not having to be arround all the time just to keep a look on our servers or networks. In those kind of cases what suits best most people is a unified and flexible monitoring system like pandora fms for example.
If you’d like to check it out visit the following webpage: http://pandorafms.com/
Regards
Ivo Yordanov
Good list. Can you please add http://www.providence.expert ? Easy and very simple. Just one plan $1,50 p/m and they check every minute. There is a 30 day trail period.
I found a self-hosted script which I can install on my server (better another than production/main server) or on any commercial webhosting with good uptime and possibility to set cron.
http://www.phpservermonitor.org/
It can monitors websites (also searching for some words there), services (like smtp, or another) in interval you set and there is also warning treshold and timeout. You can get email, sms or pushover notification. There are few levels of users, so I can set there my clients and they can see just their websites uptime and graphs.
Great script.
Great list, very useful, thanks.
I’d suggest https://www.insping.com. ease to use website monitoring tool.
Sawiyati, this is the best post on monitoring theme with no doubts! Thanks a lot!
Hi,
Itefix.net’s free server monitoring service at https://www.itefix.net/free-server-monitoring-itefix-net, allows you to monitor your Internet-facing servers as well as internal Windows and Linux hosts.
Kind regards,
itefix.net
Hi Sawiyati,
Fantastic list you’re keeping. Can you add Webmon.com to the list?
Nice collection mom! Thanks!
Since this article has been posted, we’ve launched a new free alternative that may help, called Happy Apps. Uptime and performance monitoring, without the noise. Would love thoughts on the product as we have just launched it!
I like http://www.uptimedoctor.com. It is offering best free monitoring service, 5 websites with 1 minute interval.
I suggest http://www.monitis.com/. It has a list of comprehensive features, which allow to monitor pretty much all you IT systems.
Hey, thanks for posting Cloudstats.me. We are working hard to make the platform useful. The free limits have been increased to 10 Servers + 10 Free IPs! Do check out the platform! 🙂
I would really recommend checking Monitis at http://www.monitis.com/. You can check the uptime of your website from more than 30 locations and its elaborate alerting system (email, sms, call, twitter) and escalation rules make it a perfect service to go for it.
Because I can’t find the “FREE” plan there but trial
Check out http://www.pingmy.site with 1 minute check interval with unlimited notification notifications on email, SMS, Twitter and push notifications.
It’s trial and will expire after 14 days right?
@Sawiyati Yep. But with only $0.99/mo, you can continue the subscription before the trial expired and maintain all your existing configuration. Unlike other provider, you do not need to worry about the notifications limit as we simply do not have a limit for that!
Hi SeverMom, we have recently made uptime monitoring completely free with no restrictions. We even provide 10 free SMS credits. I just thought some of your readers may find it useful.
All the best
Robin, CoFounder,RapidSpike
I have checked your website and it seems awesome. Anyway, does your service also provide -some kind like- public status page?
Afraid not, but it is on the Trello board some where 🙂 Our main focus short term is Synthetic User Journey monitoring.
Hi Sawiyati,
We’ve just launched a free website monitoring tool here at monitorhero.com
You don’t need to create an account. Just enter a URL and the monitoring starts automatically.