Uptime / synthetic
updown.io
independent (Adrien Rey-Jarthon)
A deliberately tiny, cheap, pay-only-for-what-you-use uptime monitor with status pages, beloved for its simplicity.
- Category
- Uptime / synthetic
- License
- Proprietary
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Cost
- Low
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- —
- Maturity
- Established
- Popularity
- Cult favorite among devs/homelabbers for value
The catch
Intentionally minimal — no on-call/escalation, limited integrations, few advanced check types — perfect for "ping my sites cheaply," wrong if you need incident management.
Monitors
SyntheticsNetwork
Capabilities
AlertingStatus pages
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