Every free monitoring tier that clears our bar in 2026: 55 offers meet the criteria and 4 offers are demoted with a named reason. Verified pricing, recorded changes, and a published ranking method.

Best Free Monitoring Tools

Every free monitoring tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-11.

55 offers meet our criteria here, and they are not all alternatives to one another — they carry 13 different labelled functions. They are listed under the function each is labelled with. An offer labelled with more than one is listed under each, with the words we read for that label; an offer we have not labelled is listed too, at the end. Both the sections and the offers inside them are listed in an order that rotates daily; here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 554 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 59 monitoring offers →

Cron Monitor

7 offers here are labelled cron_monitor — waits for a scheduled job to check in and alerts on the absence of the check-in rather than on a failure it observed. None is distinguishable from the others in this group under any signal we record.

1
OnlineOrNot stable
Free

Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 3 monitors (uptime, keyword, heartbeat), 3-minute check interval, 2 team members, 1 status page, SSL monitoring, multi-location checks, email/Slack/Discord alerts

Labelled cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://onlineornot.com/pricing, where it says: “Cron Job Monitoring”. How we use this

2
Sentry stable
Developer

Developer tier: 1 user, 5K errors/month, 5M spans/month, 50 session replays, 5GB application logs, 1GB attachments

Labelled cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://sentry.io/pricing/, where it says: “Cron Monitoring 1 cron monitor”. How we use this

3
Free

Website and cron monitoring - 2 monitors free

Labelled cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://sitesure.net, where it says: “It works for cron jobs and any other scheduler.”. How we use this

4
Free

Monitoring for cron jobs. One free snitch (monitor), more if you refer others to sign up

Labelled cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://deadmanssnitch.com/, where it says: “If they don't execute when they should, Dead Man's Snitch alerts you.”. How we use this

5
Free

Cron job and scheduled task monitoring — 20 monitors, 100 log entries per job, email/webhook/Slack/Telegram alerts, API access. Also free for open-source projects (Business plan)

Labelled cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://healthchecks.io/pricing/, where it says: “Fully Managed, Worry-Free Cron Job Monitoring Service”. How we use this

6
Pulsetic stable
Free

Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors (HTTP/heartbeat/API), 5-minute check interval, 3 regions, 3-month history, 3 status pages

Labelled cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://pulsetic.com/pricing/, where it says: “Cron Monitoring”. How we use this

7
Cronitor stable
Hacker

Cron job and uptime monitoring — free Hacker plan: 5 monitors, 5-minute check frequency, email, Slack, and webhook alerts, 1 status page (50 subscribers), 12-month data retention, single user

Labelled cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://cronitor.io/pricing, where it says: “Cron Job Monitoring”. How we use this

APM Traces

8 offers here are labelled apm_traces — instruments application code and reports per-request latency, throughput and spans across services. None is distinguishable from the others in this group under any signal we record.

1
New Relic stable
Free

Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic checks, 8+ days retention Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled apm_traces. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://newrelic.com/pricing, where it says: “New Relic, Datadog, and Dynatrace cost comparison”. How we use this

2
Free

A complete Real-Time monitoring dashboard in less than one minute with a free forever tier.

Labelled apm_traces. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.inspector.dev, where it says: “the exact code changes needed to fix bugs and improve application performance while staying in your agentic workflow. With the AI integration you can”. How we use this

3
Free

Application performance monitoring — free for first 100,000 traces/month.

Labelled apm_traces. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.skylight.io/, where it says: “Skylight is a smart profiler for Ruby and Rails applications.”. How we use this

4
Sentry stable
Developer

Developer tier: 1 user, 5K errors/month, 5M spans/month, 50 session replays, 5GB application logs, 1GB attachments

Labelled apm_traces. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://sentry.io/pricing/, where it says: “Tracing 5M spans”. How we use this

5
Free OSS

Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated distributed tracing system. End-to-end request tracing, performance optimization, root cause analysis. OpenTelemetry compatible Best for open source projects.

Labelled apm_traces. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.jaegertracing.io/, where it says: “open source, distributed tracing platform”. How we use this

6
Grafana Cloud stable
Free

Free tier with 10K metric series, 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces, 14-day retention, 3 users

Labelled apm_traces. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://grafana.com/pricing/, where it says: “Fully-managed, easy-to-use, highly-scalable, and cost-effective distributed tracing backend.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknownpricing restructured: The free tier now includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests, and community support. The free tier includes 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, and 50 GB traces. A $19/month platform fee is now required for 10k active series, 50 GB ingested logs/traces, and 30 days retention. Source ↗
7
SigNoz stable
Free OSS

OpenTelemetry-native observability with logs, metrics and traces in one tool. The community edition is free to self-host. SigNoz Cloud starts at $49/month including $49 of usage credit, then $0.3/GB ingested for logs and traces (15-day retention) and $0.1 per million metric samples; eligible startups pay $19/month for the first 12 months. Best for startups.

Labelled apm_traces. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://signoz.io/pricing/, where it says: “APM & Distributed Tracing Out of Box”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknownpricing restructured: The free tier is now described as 'Get Started - Free' and starts at $49/month including $49 of usage, rather than being a purely free OSS option. The startup program now offers $19/month for the first 12 months with $19 of telemetry usage. Source ↗
8
AppSignal stable
Free

Application monitoring (APM, errors, logging) — free plan: 50,000 requests/month, 1 GB logging/month, 5-day data retention, unlimited apps and hosts. Extended free limits for OSS and humanitarian projects Best for open source projects and unlimited usage needs.

Labelled apm_traces. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.appsignal.com/plans, where it says: “All-in-one APM The complete monitoring toolkit for developers.”. How we use this

Host Metrics

8 offers here are labelled host_metrics — an agent you install on a machine reports CPU, memory, disk and process state for that machine. None is distinguishable from the others in this group under any signal we record.

1
New Relic stable
Free

Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic checks, 8+ days retention Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://newrelic.com/pricing, where it says: “With New Relic usage-based pricing , you no longer have to count hosts or CPUs.”. How we use this

2
Free

Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 20 monitors (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), 5-minute check interval, 1 basic status page with real-time updates and subscriber notifications, 1 seat, 1 server monitoring agent, email and webhook alerts Note — 2026-04-21: Hyperping free plan limits restructured: monitor cap raised from 5 to 20 (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), but the check interval slowed from 3 minutes to 5 minutes. Free plan now also includes 1 seat and 1 server monitoring agent. Trade-off: 4x more endpoints can be monitored, at the cost of slower check granularity. Source ↗

Labelled host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://hyperping.com/pricing, where it says: “SERVER MONITORING Server agents A lightweight agent that reports CPU, memory, disk and network from your servers.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-04-21pricing restructured: Hyperping free plan limits restructured: monitor cap raised from 5 to 20 (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), but the check interval slowed from 3 minutes to 5 minutes. Free plan now also includes 1 seat and 1 server monitoring agent. Trade-off: 4x more endpoints can be monitored, at the cost of slower check granularity. Source ↗
3
Sematext stable
Basic (Free)

Observability platform — Logs: 500 MB/day ingestion, 7-day retention. Monitoring: 3 hosts, 3 containers/host, 30-min data retention, 1 alert rule. Volume-based pricing, no per-host charges on paid plans

Labelled host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://sematext.com/pricing, where it says: “install the agent Sematext will start providing valuable performance insights.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-07). The free tier now has a 1-day retention instead of 7, and is priced per host. Retracted 2026-09-07: this record compared two different products on sematext.com/pricing. The stored terms describe the Logs Basic plan, and the page's Logs Basic card still reads "Retention 7 days" and "Daily Volume 500 MB/day" — both stored figures unchanged. The "Retention 1 day" and per-host price this record reports are the Infra Monitoring Basic card, a different product on the same page. The page's FAQ reads "Each Monitoring App is independent and each App can have a different plan, including the free plan." Source ↗
4
bleemeo.com stable
Free

Free for 3 servers, 5 uptime monitors, unlimited users, unlimited dashboards, unlimited alerting rules. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://bleemeo.com, where it says: “CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics collected every 10 seconds”. How we use this

5
Lite

Server and website monitoring (formerly Nixstats) — free Lite plan: 1 server monitor, 5 site monitors, 10-minute check interval, 24-hour data retention, email alerts

Labelled host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://360monitoring.com/pricing/, where it says: “Website Monitoring Server Monitoring Blocklist Monitoring Full Site Check”. How we use this

6
Datadog stable
Free

Infrastructure monitoring free for up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention

Labelled host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/, where it says: “Standard Events and Metrics Up to 5 hosts”. How we use this

7
netdata.cloud stable
Free

Netdata is an open-source tool to collect real-time metrics. It's a growing product and can also be found on GitHub!

Labelled host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.netdata.cloud/, where it says: “Metrics Management eBPF Monitoring”. How we use this

8
syagent.com stable
Free

Free server monitoring service with alerts and metrics. Up to 25 servers and 25 uptime monitoring instances.

Labelled host_metrics. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://syagent.com/, where it says: “Monitor Linux servers, processes, disks, network”. How we use this

Error Tracking

5 offers here are labelled error_tracking — captures unhandled exceptions with stack traces and groups repeat occurrences into one issue. None is distinguishable from the others in this group under any signal we record.

1
New Relic stable
Free

Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic checks, 8+ days retention Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled error_tracking. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://newrelic.com/pricing, where it says: “Core users—starting at $49 per user— can access everything basic users can plus telemetry data in their IDE via the New Relic CodeStream integration, error tracking, logs, and more.”. How we use this

2
Free

A complete Real-Time monitoring dashboard in less than one minute with a free forever tier.

Labelled error_tracking. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.inspector.dev, where it says: “Never be the last to know your app broke”. How we use this

3
Sentry stable
Developer

Developer tier: 1 user, 5K errors/month, 5M spans/month, 50 session replays, 5GB application logs, 1GB attachments

Labelled error_tracking. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://sentry.io/pricing/, where it says: “Errors 50K $0.00”. How we use this

4
BetterStack stable
Free

10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page, 1 responder

Labelled error_tracking. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://betterstack.com/pricing, where it says: “AI‑native error tracking built on Better Stack”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: The free tier now includes 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions per month, 5,000 session replays, 3 GB logs retained for 3 days, 30 GB metrics, and 3 GB web events retained for 3 days. Source ↗
5
AppSignal stable
Free

Application monitoring (APM, errors, logging) — free plan: 50,000 requests/month, 1 GB logging/month, 5-day data retention, unlimited apps and hosts. Extended free limits for OSS and humanitarian projects Best for open source projects and unlimited usage needs.

Labelled error_tracking. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.appsignal.com/plans, where it says: “help your codebase grow from your first error to your second database cluster”. How we use this

Uptime Check

24 offers here are labelled uptime_check — polls a URL or host from outside your infrastructure on a fixed interval and alerts when it stops answering; it runs no code of yours. None is distinguishable from the others in this group under any signal we record.

1
Free

Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, pingmeter.com reads: Free account is limited to accounts with 1 category and less than 5 uptime monitors. It exclude pro features such as sms/voice notification, scheduling and recovery actions. We are not publishing our stored Pingmeter.com terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-08-28: The free tier now has restrictions: limited to accounts with 1 category and less than 5 uptime monitors. SMS/voice notification, scheduling and recovery actions are excluded from the free tier. Source ↗

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://pingmeter.com/, where it says: “Multiple servers in different countries will scan your website and furnish a performance report for you”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownrestriction: The free tier now has restrictions: limited to accounts with 1 category and less than 5 uptime monitors. SMS/voice notification, scheduling and recovery actions are excluded from the free tier. Source ↗
2
OnlineOrNot stable
Free

Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 3 monitors (uptime, keyword, heartbeat), 3-minute check interval, 2 team members, 1 status page, SSL monitoring, multi-location checks, email/Slack/Discord alerts

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://onlineornot.com/pricing, where it says: “Website down checker”. How we use this

3
Free

Modern uptime monitoring service. Check unlimited URLs and get downtime notifications via Discord, Slack, or email. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://pingbreak.com/, where it says: “Pingbreak checks all of your websites each minute and alerts you instantly by Direct Message (DM) or slack, discord, mattermost, mail notifications.”. How we use this

4
Sentry stable
Developer

Developer tier: 1 user, 5K errors/month, 5M spans/month, 50 session replays, 5GB application logs, 1GB attachments

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://sentry.io/pricing/, where it says: “Uptime Monitoring 1 uptime monitor”. How we use this

5
Free

60 uptime monitors, 5-minute interval. Email, Slack alerts.

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://downtimemonkey.com/, where it says: “Websites checked every minute.”. How we use this

6
Free

Website and cron monitoring - 2 monitors free

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://sitesure.net, where it says: “Sitesure will check your website, API endpoint, or TCP service at a regular interval from around the world and notify you when the response is not expected.”. How we use this

7
phare.io stable
Free

Uptime Monitoring free for up to 100,000 events for unlimited projets and unlimited status pages. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://phare.io/, where it says: “Uptime monitoring, alerts, incidents AI”. How we use this

8
Free

Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 20 monitors (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), 5-minute check interval, 1 basic status page with real-time updates and subscriber notifications, 1 seat, 1 server monitoring agent, email and webhook alerts Note — 2026-04-21: Hyperping free plan limits restructured: monitor cap raised from 5 to 20 (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), but the check interval slowed from 3 minutes to 5 minutes. Free plan now also includes 1 seat and 1 server monitoring agent. Trade-off: 4x more endpoints can be monitored, at the cost of slower check granularity. Source ↗

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://hyperping.com/pricing, where it says: “Hyperping bundles uptime monitoring, on-call and a status page on your own domain — in one plan.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-04-21pricing restructured: Hyperping free plan limits restructured: monitor cap raised from 5 to 20 (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), but the check interval slowed from 3 minutes to 5 minutes. Free plan now also includes 1 seat and 1 server monitoring agent. Trade-off: 4x more endpoints can be monitored, at the cost of slower check granularity. Source ↗
9
StatusCake stable
Free

Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors, 5-min intervals, 1 page speed monitor, 1 domain monitor, 1 SSL monitor, email alerts, basic integrations

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.statuscake.com/pricing/, where it says: “Uptime Monitoring”. How we use this

10
bleemeo.com stable
Free

Free for 3 servers, 5 uptime monitors, unlimited users, unlimited dashboards, unlimited alerting rules. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://bleemeo.com, where it says: “with uptime checks from global probes.”. How we use this

11
BetterStack stable
Free

10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page, 1 responder

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://betterstack.com/pricing, where it says: “The most reliable uptime monitoring”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: The free tier now includes 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions per month, 5,000 session replays, 3 GB logs retained for 3 days, 30 GB metrics, and 3 GB web events retained for 3 days. Source ↗
12
Pulsetic stable
Free

Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors (HTTP/heartbeat/API), 5-minute check interval, 3 regions, 3-month history, 3 status pages

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://pulsetic.com/pricing/, where it says: “We'll alert you if your website is down”. How we use this

13
MonitorMonk stable
Free

Minimalist uptime monitoring with beautiful status pages. The Forever Free plan offers HTTPS, Keyword, SSL and Response-time monitorming for 10 websites or api-endpoints, and provides 2 dashboards/status pages.

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://monitormonk.com, where it says: “MonitorMonk keeps an eye on your websites and services 24/7”. How we use this

14
Lite

Server and website monitoring (formerly Nixstats) — free Lite plan: 1 server monitor, 5 site monitors, 10-minute check interval, 24-hour data retention, email alerts

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://360monitoring.com/pricing/, where it says: “Your 360° server uptime solution.”. How we use this

15
Free

Get 20 uptime monitors with 5-minute intervals and a customizable status page—even for commercial use. Enjoy unlimited, real-time notifications via email and Telegram. No credit card needed to get started. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://uptimeobserver.com, where it says: “UptimeObserver monitors websites, APIs, DNS records, Server Ports, Domain Name Expiry and SSL Expiry for downtime and performance issues, alerting you when something goes wrong.”. How we use this

16
Free

Advanced status page platform with monitoring. The free tier includes one public customizable status page with an SSL subdomain. Pro plan is offered to open-source projects and non-profits free of charge.

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://pingpong.one/, where it says: “Measure the performance and uptime of your website or API and showcase the result on your status page. If your site goes down, you will be notified instantly.”. How we use this

17
Free

Uptime monitoring with support for large projects and teams. Free tier: 1 HTTP monitor, 1 DNS monitor, and 1 status page. Note — 2026-04-12: Free tier HTTP monitors reduced from 10 to 1 Source ↗

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://servervana.com, where it says: “Uptime monitoring.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-04-12limits reduced: Free tier HTTP monitors reduced from 10 to 1 Source ↗
18
Cronitor stable
Hacker

Cron job and uptime monitoring — free Hacker plan: 5 monitors, 5-minute check frequency, email, Slack, and webhook alerts, 1 status page (50 subscribers), 12-month data retention, single user

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://cronitor.io/pricing, where it says: “Uptime Monitoring”. How we use this

19
UptimeRobot stable
Free

50 uptime monitors, 5-minute check intervals, 3-month log retention, email alerts. Personal/non-commercial use only on free tier Best for personal projects.

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/, where it says: “Uptime monitoring”. How we use this

20
syagent.com stable
Free

Free server monitoring service with alerts and metrics. Up to 25 servers and 25 uptime monitoring instances.

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://syagent.com/, where it says: “Uptime HTTP, PING, PUSH”. How we use this

21
Free

Free monitoring for five websites, 3-minute intervals, public statuspage.

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://uptimetoolbox.com/, where it says: “We're now monitoring your site. Besides letting you know if your site goes down, we'll also keep an eye on your domain expirations and SSL certificates”. How we use this

22
Uptimia stable
Free

Website uptime monitoring — free plan: 1 website, 5-minute check interval, basic uptime monitoring, email alerts. No credit card required

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.uptimia.com/pricing, where it says: “Uptime monitoring pricing that costs less than downtime.”. How we use this

23
SweetUptime stable
Free

Server monitoring, uptime monitoring, DNS & domain monitoring. Monitor 10 server, 10 uptime, and 10 domain for free.

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://dicloud.net/sweetuptime-server-uptime-monitoring/, where it says: “Get notified when your website & server is down before your customer got angry”. How we use this

24
Always Free

Always Free: all non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics, first 1M monitoring API calls/month. Dashboards, alerting, and uptime checks for GCP resources

Labelled uptime_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/pricing, where it says: “Execution of Monitoring uptime checks $0.30/1,000 executions”. How we use this

Dashboards

1 offer here is labelled dashboards — renders charts, dashboards and alert rules over telemetry held in stores it does not own; what is sold is the view, not the store.

1
Grafana stable
Free OSS

Grafana OSS — the self-hosted dashboarding and alerting front end, free under AGPL-3.0-only with Apache-2.0 exceptions. Unifies 150+ data sources into one dashboard and supports observability-as-code. You set up, administer and maintain the installation yourself; Grafana Cloud is the hosted product and is priced separately. Best for open source projects.

Labelled dashboards. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://grafana.com/oss/grafana/, where it says: “Easily collect, correlate, and visualize data with beautiful dashboards using Grafana — the open source data visualization and monitoring solution”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknownpricing restructured: The free tier now includes 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces, 50GB profiles, 50k frontend sessions, and 500VUh of k6 testing for 3 users. Source ↗

Synthetic Check

7 offers here are labelled synthetic_check — runs a check you author — a scripted browser session, a multi-step API call, or an assertion on a response body — on a schedule from outside your infrastructure, and reports whether the behaviour it asserts still holds. None is distinguishable from the others in this group under any signal we record.

1
New Relic stable
Free

Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic checks, 8+ days retention Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled synthetic_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://newrelic.com/pricing, where it says: “Additional synthetics checks beyond the amount included in your edition are available at $0.005 per check.”. How we use this

2
OnlineOrNot stable
Free

Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 3 monitors (uptime, keyword, heartbeat), 3-minute check interval, 2 team members, 1 status page, SSL monitoring, multi-location checks, email/Slack/Discord alerts

Labelled synthetic_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://onlineornot.com/pricing, where it says: “Monitoring Heartbeat Monitoring Website Monitoring Synthetic monitoring Status Pages Pricing Changelog Support Schedule a demo”. How we use this

3
Free

Automated API testing and monitoring. Free plans for teams and individuals.

Labelled synthetic_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://assertible.com, where it says: “With Assertible, you can run your API tests against any environment, like staging or production .”. How we use this

4
Sematext stable
Basic (Free)

Observability platform — Logs: 500 MB/day ingestion, 7-day retention. Monitoring: 3 hosts, 3 containers/host, 30-min data retention, 1 alert rule. Volume-based pricing, no per-host charges on paid plans

Labelled synthetic_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://sematext.com/pricing, where it says: “Start free trial Synthetics Monitor performance and availability of your site and APIs.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-07). The free tier now has a 1-day retention instead of 7, and is priced per host. Retracted 2026-09-07: this record compared two different products on sematext.com/pricing. The stored terms describe the Logs Basic plan, and the page's Logs Basic card still reads "Retention 7 days" and "Daily Volume 500 MB/day" — both stored figures unchanged. The "Retention 1 day" and per-host price this record reports are the Infra Monitoring Basic card, a different product on the same page. The page's FAQ reads "Each Monitoring App is independent and each App can have a different plan, including the free plan." Source ↗
5
Cronitor stable
Hacker

Cron job and uptime monitoring — free Hacker plan: 5 monitors, 5-minute check frequency, email, Slack, and webhook alerts, 1 status page (50 subscribers), 12-month data retention, single user

Labelled synthetic_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://cronitor.io/pricing, where it says: “events free $10 /mo per 100,000 events Custom Synthetic browser checks × $1 /mo per 1,000 checks Custom Fastest check”. How we use this

6
netdata.cloud stable
Free

Netdata is an open-source tool to collect real-time metrics. It's a growing product and can also be found on GitHub!

Labelled synthetic_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.netdata.cloud/, where it says: “Infrastructure Monitoring Container Monitoring Synthetic Checks Application Performance Database Monitoring Troubleshooting”. How we use this

7
Always Free

Always Free: all non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics, first 1M monitoring API calls/month. Dashboards, alerting, and uptime checks for GCP resources

Labelled synthetic_check. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/pricing, where it says: “Execution of Monitoring Synthetic Monitors $1.20/1,000 executions”. How we use this

Upstream Status Watch

3 offers here are labelled upstream_status_watch — watches status pages or endpoints belonging to third parties you depend on, and reports to you rather than to your users. None is distinguishable from the others in this group under any signal we record.

1
Free

Status page monitoring, 3 monitors free

Labelled upstream_status_watch. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://statusgator.com/, where it says: “Status aggregation Aggregate the status of all vendors to a single page”. How we use this

2
Free

A status page of status pages. Could you track the status pages of your upstream providers?

Labelled upstream_status_watch. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.statuspile.com/, where it says: “Your status page of status pages (open sourced and free to use)”. How we use this

3
Free

Cloud and SaaS status page aggregator — 5 monitors and 2 notification channels (Slack and Discord) are free forever. Note — 2026-04-12: Free tier monitors reduced from 20 to 5 Source ↗

Labelled upstream_status_watch. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://incidenthub.cloud/, where it says: “The vendor outage monitor and status page aggregator that watches 1125+ third-party services in real time”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-04-12limits reduced: Free tier monitors reduced from 20 to 5 Source ↗

Log Management

9 offers here are labelled log_management — ingests, stores and queries log lines; the line is the stored unit and retention is a priced dimension. None is distinguishable from the others in this group under any signal we record.

1
New Relic stable
Free

Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic checks, 8+ days retention Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled log_management. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://newrelic.com/pricing, where it says: “Advanced logs obfuscation: Create and track rules directly in the log management UI and mask or hash sensitive log data.”. How we use this

2
Elastic stable
Free OSS

The Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, ingest and basic security — self-managed at no cost on the Free and Open tier under the Elastic License and SSPL, with community support. Platinum (existing customers only) and Enterprise are custom-priced and add machine learning, cross-cluster replication, searchable snapshots and 24/7 support. Elastic Cloud Serverless and Hosted are billed separately by usage or resources. Best for open source projects.

Labelled log_management. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed, where it says: “Observability APM, logging, and metrics via Kibana Discover and Dashboards”. How we use this

3
Sentry stable
Developer

Developer tier: 1 user, 5K errors/month, 5M spans/month, 50 session replays, 5GB application logs, 1GB attachments

Labelled log_management. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://sentry.io/pricing/, where it says: “Logs 5GB 5GB +$0.50/GB additional”. How we use this

4
Sematext stable
Basic (Free)

Observability platform — Logs: 500 MB/day ingestion, 7-day retention. Monitoring: 3 hosts, 3 containers/host, 30-min data retention, 1 alert rule. Volume-based pricing, no per-host charges on paid plans

Labelled log_management. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://sematext.com/pricing, where it says: “Sematext is a fully managed log management solution, with built-in replication,”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-07). The free tier now has a 1-day retention instead of 7, and is priced per host. Retracted 2026-09-07: this record compared two different products on sematext.com/pricing. The stored terms describe the Logs Basic plan, and the page's Logs Basic card still reads "Retention 7 days" and "Daily Volume 500 MB/day" — both stored figures unchanged. The "Retention 1 day" and per-host price this record reports are the Infra Monitoring Basic card, a different product on the same page. The page's FAQ reads "Each Monitoring App is independent and each App can have a different plan, including the free plan." Source ↗
5
BetterStack stable
Free

10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page, 1 responder

Labelled log_management. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://betterstack.com/pricing, where it says: “3 GB logs retained for 3 days”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: The free tier now includes 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions per month, 5,000 session replays, 3 GB logs retained for 3 days, 30 GB metrics, and 3 GB web events retained for 3 days. Source ↗
6
Grafana Cloud stable
Free

Free tier with 10K metric series, 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces, 14-day retention, 3 users

Labelled log_management. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://grafana.com/pricing/, where it says: “Fully-managed log aggregation system powered by Grafana Loki.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknownpricing restructured: The free tier now includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests, and community support. The free tier includes 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, and 50 GB traces. A $19/month platform fee is now required for 10k active series, 50 GB ingested logs/traces, and 30 days retention. Source ↗
7
SigNoz stable
Free OSS

OpenTelemetry-native observability with logs, metrics and traces in one tool. The community edition is free to self-host. SigNoz Cloud starts at $49/month including $49 of usage credit, then $0.3/GB ingested for logs and traces (15-day retention) and $0.1 per million metric samples; eligible startups pay $19/month for the first 12 months. Best for startups.

Labelled log_management. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://signoz.io/pricing/, where it says: “Log Management”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknownpricing restructured: The free tier is now described as 'Get Started - Free' and starts at $49/month including $49 of usage, rather than being a purely free OSS option. The startup program now offers $19/month for the first 12 months with $19 of telemetry usage. Source ↗
8
Axiom stable
Personal

Observability platform — 500 GB ingest/month, 25 GB storage, 30-day retention, 2 datasets, 1 user, 10 GB-hrs/mo query compute, 256 fields/dataset, 3 monitors, Email/Discord notifiers only

Labelled log_management. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://axiom.co/pricing, where it says: “Log management”. How we use this

9
AppSignal stable
Free

Application monitoring (APM, errors, logging) — free plan: 50,000 requests/month, 1 GB logging/month, 5-day data retention, unlimited apps and hosts. Extended free limits for OSS and humanitarian projects Best for open source projects and unlimited usage needs.

Labelled log_management. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.appsignal.com/plans, where it says: “Long-term log storage Automatically export and store logs from AppSignal to your S3-compatible storage for long-term retention.”. How we use this

On Call Response

4 offers here are labelled on_call_response — routes a firing alert to a named human by schedule and escalation policy. None is distinguishable from the others in this group under any signal we record.

1
pagertree.com stable
Free

Simple interface for alerting and on-call management. Free up to 5 users.

Labelled on_call_response. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://pagertree.com/, where it says: “Centralize alerts and notify the right people at the right time.”. How we use this

2
incident.io stable
Basic

Incident management platform — free Basic plan: up to 5 users, Slack or Microsoft Teams native incident response, single-team on-call scheduling, 1 status page, essential incident automation

Labelled on_call_response. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://incident.io/pricing, where it says: “On-call Alert routing and grouping”. How we use this

3
BetterStack stable
Free

10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page, 1 responder

Labelled on_call_response. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://betterstack.com/pricing, where it says: “On-call calendar ICS export”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: The free tier now includes 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions per month, 5,000 session replays, 3 GB logs retained for 3 days, 30 GB metrics, and 3 GB web events retained for 3 days. Source ↗
4
PagerDuty stable
Free

Incident management — 5 users, 1 on-call schedule, 1 escalation policy, 100 intl phone/SMS notifications/month, 700+ integrations, API access

Labelled on_call_response. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.pagerduty.com/pricing/, where it says: “Escalation policies connect services to individual users and/or schedules to ensure the right people are notified at the right time.”. How we use this

Status Page

11 offers here are labelled status_page — publishes a page your own users read to see whether your service is up. None is distinguishable from the others in this group under any signal we record.

1
OnlineOrNot stable
Free

Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 3 monitors (uptime, keyword, heartbeat), 3-minute check interval, 2 team members, 1 status page, SSL monitoring, multi-location checks, email/Slack/Discord alerts

Labelled status_page. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://onlineornot.com/pricing, where it says: “Status page included”. How we use this

2
phare.io stable
Free

Uptime Monitoring free for up to 100,000 events for unlimited projets and unlimited status pages. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled status_page. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://phare.io/, where it says: “customizable status page”. How we use this

3
Free

Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 20 monitors (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), 5-minute check interval, 1 basic status page with real-time updates and subscriber notifications, 1 seat, 1 server monitoring agent, email and webhook alerts Note — 2026-04-21: Hyperping free plan limits restructured: monitor cap raised from 5 to 20 (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), but the check interval slowed from 3 minutes to 5 minutes. Free plan now also includes 1 seat and 1 server monitoring agent. Trade-off: 4x more endpoints can be monitored, at the cost of slower check granularity. Source ↗

Labelled status_page. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://hyperping.com/pricing, where it says: “Pricing Status page on your domain.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-04-21pricing restructured: Hyperping free plan limits restructured: monitor cap raised from 5 to 20 (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), but the check interval slowed from 3 minutes to 5 minutes. Free plan now also includes 1 seat and 1 server monitoring agent. Trade-off: 4x more endpoints can be monitored, at the cost of slower check granularity. Source ↗
4
incident.io stable
Basic

Incident management platform — free Basic plan: up to 5 users, Slack or Microsoft Teams native incident response, single-team on-call scheduling, 1 status page, essential incident automation

Labelled status_page. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://incident.io/pricing, where it says: “Status Pages”. How we use this

5
BetterStack stable
Free

10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page, 1 responder

Labelled status_page. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://betterstack.com/pricing, where it says: “Quick status page updates”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: The free tier now includes 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions per month, 5,000 session replays, 3 GB logs retained for 3 days, 30 GB metrics, and 3 GB web events retained for 3 days. Source ↗
6
Pulsetic stable
Free

Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors (HTTP/heartbeat/API), 5-minute check interval, 3 regions, 3-month history, 3 status pages

Labelled status_page. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://pulsetic.com/pricing/, where it says: “Status Pages”. How we use this

7
MonitorMonk stable
Free

Minimalist uptime monitoring with beautiful status pages. The Forever Free plan offers HTTPS, Keyword, SSL and Response-time monitorming for 10 websites or api-endpoints, and provides 2 dashboards/status pages.

Labelled status_page. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://monitormonk.com, where it says: “display their status on beautiful status pages”. How we use this

8
Free

Get 20 uptime monitors with 5-minute intervals and a customizable status page—even for commercial use. Enjoy unlimited, real-time notifications via email and Telegram. No credit card needed to get started. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled status_page. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://uptimeobserver.com, where it says: “Status Pages”. How we use this

9
Free

Advanced status page platform with monitoring. The free tier includes one public customizable status page with an SSL subdomain. Pro plan is offered to open-source projects and non-profits free of charge.

Labelled status_page. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://pingpong.one/, where it says: “Hosted status page A central place for all status updates.”. How we use this

10
Cronitor stable
Hacker

Cron job and uptime monitoring — free Hacker plan: 5 monitors, 5-minute check frequency, email, Slack, and webhook alerts, 1 status page (50 subscribers), 12-month data retention, single user

Labelled status_page. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://cronitor.io/pricing, where it says: “Status Pages”. How we use this

11
Free

Free monitoring for five websites, 3-minute intervals, public statuspage.

Labelled status_page. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://uptimetoolbox.com/, where it says: “Status Page Builder”. How we use this

Page Change Watch

2 offers here are labelled page_change_watch — fetches a web page on a schedule and notifies you when its content differs from last time. None is distinguishable from the others in this group under any signal we record.

1
pagecrawl.io stable
Free

Monitor website changes, free for up to 6 monitors with 60-minute interval checks.

Labelled page_change_watch. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://pagecrawl.io/, where it says: “Get notified when any webpage changes.”. How we use this

2
Wachete stable
Free

monitor five pages, checks every 24 hours.

Labelled page_change_watch. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.wachete.com, where it says: “Get told the moment it changes”. How we use this

Metrics Backend

9 offers here are labelled metrics_backend — stores time-indexed measurements and serves queries over them; dashboards and alerting are built on top rather than sold as the product. None is distinguishable from the others in this group under any signal we record.

1
New Relic stable
Free

Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic checks, 8+ days retention Best for unlimited usage needs.

Labelled metrics_backend. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://newrelic.com/pricing, where it says: “Our straightforward pricing is based on just two core metrics—users and data ingest OR compute and data ingest—making it easy to understand what you’re paying for.”. How we use this

2
Free OSS

Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated time-series monitoring and alerting. Pull-based metrics collection, PromQL query language, multi-dimensional data model Best for open source projects.

Labelled metrics_backend. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://prometheus.io/, where it says: “Instrument, collect, store, and query your metrics for alerting, dashboarding, and other use cases.”. How we use this

3
Elastic stable
Free OSS

The Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, ingest and basic security — self-managed at no cost on the Free and Open tier under the Elastic License and SSPL, with community support. Platinum (existing customers only) and Enterprise are custom-priced and add machine learning, cross-cluster replication, searchable snapshots and 24/7 support. Elastic Cloud Serverless and Hosted are billed separately by usage or resources. Best for open source projects.

Labelled metrics_backend. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed, where it says: “optimized storage of metrics”. How we use this

4
BetterStack stable
Free

10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page, 1 responder

Labelled metrics_backend. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://betterstack.com/pricing, where it says: “Embedded charts & metrics”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknownlimits reduced: The free tier now includes 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions per month, 5,000 session replays, 3 GB logs retained for 3 days, 30 GB metrics, and 3 GB web events retained for 3 days. Source ↗
5
Grafana Cloud stable
Free

Free tier with 10K metric series, 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces, 14-day retention, 3 users

Labelled metrics_backend. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://grafana.com/pricing/, where it says: “Fully-managed, highly-scalable metrics service in Grafana Cloud with built-in features to optimize cost.”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknownpricing restructured: The free tier now includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests, and community support. The free tier includes 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, and 50 GB traces. A $19/month platform fee is now required for 10k active series, 50 GB ingested logs/traces, and 30 days retention. Source ↗
6
SigNoz stable
Free OSS

OpenTelemetry-native observability with logs, metrics and traces in one tool. The community edition is free to self-host. SigNoz Cloud starts at $49/month including $49 of usage credit, then $0.3/GB ingested for logs and traces (15-day retention) and $0.1 per million metric samples; eligible startups pay $19/month for the first 12 months. Best for startups.

Labelled metrics_backend. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://signoz.io/pricing/, where it says: “Metrics Explorer - search, query, and analyze all metrics”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknownpricing restructured: The free tier is now described as 'Get Started - Free' and starts at $49/month including $49 of usage, rather than being a purely free OSS option. The startup program now offers $19/month for the first 12 months with $19 of telemetry usage. Source ↗
7
Axiom stable
Personal

Observability platform — 500 GB ingest/month, 25 GB storage, 30-day retention, 2 datasets, 1 user, 10 GB-hrs/mo query compute, 256 fields/dataset, 3 monitors, Email/Discord notifiers only

Labelled metrics_backend. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://axiom.co/pricing, where it says: “Metrics skill”. How we use this

8
netdata.cloud stable
Free

Netdata is an open-source tool to collect real-time metrics. It's a growing product and can also be found on GitHub!

Labelled metrics_backend. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.netdata.cloud/, where it says: “Centralized metrics streaming and storage”. How we use this

9
Always Free

Always Free: all non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics, first 1M monitoring API calls/month. Dashboards, alerting, and uptime checks for GCP resources

Labelled metrics_backend. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/pricing, where it says: “Read API calls: $0.50/million time series returned”. How we use this

None of this category's subtypes applies

We have read these offers against this category's subtypes and none of them applies. They are listed in full: the category is what they were filed under, and this states what our labels do not cover rather than a finding about the products.

1
Free

Economize helps demystify cloud infrastructure costs by organizing cloud resources to optimize and report the same. Free for up to $100,000 spent on cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) every month.

2
Free

Free load testing tools with limitations

3
Free

Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, linkok.com reads: Free forever for small sites (up to 100 pages) with monthly scans and email reports. Paid tiers available for weekly and daily scans, ranging from $4/month to $400/month depending on the number of pages scanned. We are not publishing our stored linkok.com terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-08-28: The free tier now has different features and options. While a free tier for up to 100 pages still exists, it now offers monthly scans with email reports, while previously it was described as 'completely free' for small websites and open-source projects. There are also paid tiers for weekly and daily scans. Source ↗

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownpricing restructured: The free tier now has different features and options. While a free tier for up to 100 pages still exists, it now offers monthly scans with email reports, while previously it was described as 'completely free' for small websites and open-source projects. There are also paid tiers for weekly and daily scans. Source ↗
4
Free

Check if a website is blocked in China by the Great Firewall. It identifies DNS pollution by comparing DNS results and ASN information detected by servers in China versus servers in the United States.

5
robusta.dev stable
Free

Powerful Kubernetes monitoring based on Prometheus. Bring your own Prometheus or install the all-in-one bundle. The free tier includes up to 20 Kubernetes nodes. Alerts via Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, and more. Integrations with PagerDuty, OpsGenie, VictorOps, DataDog, and many other tools.

6
Free

Find Core Web Vitals history for a url or a website.

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

−3
Middleware.io stable
Free

Full-stack observability platform — free forever plan: 100 GB/month data (APM, logs, infrastructure, traces, RUM, synthetics, database, serverless), 1,000 RUM sessions/month, 20,000 synthetic checks/month, 14-day data retention, unlimited users Best for unlimited usage needs.

  • −3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-08-28: Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-09). The free tier now offers a 14-day free trial with unlimited data ingestion, instead of a 'free forever' plan with specific limits. Previously 100 GB/month data, 1,000 RUM sessions/month, 20,000 synthetic checks/month, and 14-day data retention. Retracted 2026-09-09: middleware.io/pricing/, the page this record cites, opens its plan ladder with "Free Forever. $0. Free access to all features with monthly limits." and lists "Up to 100GB Data. Up to 1k RUM Sessions. Up to 20k Synthetic Checks. 10 Browser Test Runs. Unlimited Users." Those are the terms this record withheld, figure for figure. The sentence this record read - "We provide 14 days free trial with unlimited data ingestion" - is an answer about trial retention further down the same page, and it is still there today beside the free plan. The page did not change; the reading did. Source: https://middleware.io/pricing/
−3
Free

Powerful server monitoring in a unified platform for metrics and logs, with no setup complexity. Free for one server.

  • −3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-08-28: Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-09). Pricing starts at $3/month. Retracted 2026-09-09: simpleobservability.com/pricing publishes "Free. Free plan for one server. Ideal for testing, development, or low-traffic workloads." and prices it "Free. for 1 server." with 50 metrics per server. Our withheld terms read "Free for one server." The "$3/month" this record quotes is the paid rung above that plan and is still on the same page. Source: https://simpleobservability.com
−3
Free

Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, xitoring.com reads: The page offers a 14-day free trial, and then paid plans starting at $4.99/mo for Uptime + SSL. We are not publishing our stored Xitoring.com terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-08-28: The page highlights a 14-day free trial, and then lists paid plans starting at $4.99/mo. Source ↗

  • −3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-08-28: The page highlights a 14-day free trial, and then lists paid plans starting at $4.99/mo. Source: https://xitoring.com/
−3
Free

Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, fivenines.io reads: The page promotes a 14-day free trial and a paid plan starting at €19/month. It does not mention a permanently free tier for up to 5 servers. We are not publishing our stored fivenines.io terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-08-28: The page now highlights a 14-day free trial and a starting plan at €19/month. Source ↗

  • −3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-08-28: The page now highlights a 14-day free trial and a starting plan at €19/month. Source: https://fivenines.io/
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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2026-09-11
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best-of:Monitoring
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55

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Stability Verified
Pingmeter.com Free As of 2026-08-28, pingmeter.com reads: Free account is limited to accounts with 1 category and less than 5 uptime monitors… Our stored Pingmeter.com terms are superseded and withheld. caution
discovered 2026-08-28 restricted
2026-07-12
New Relic Free Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic check... stable 2026-08-31
Prometheus Free OSS Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated time-series monitoring and alerting. Pull-based metrics collection, PromQL query l... 2026-08-22
statusgator.com Free Status page monitoring, 3 monitors free 2026-07-10
inspector.dev Free A complete Real-Time monitoring dashboard in less than one minute with a free forever tier. 2026-07-11
OnlineOrNot Free Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 3 monitors (uptime, keyword, heartbeat), 3-minute check interval, 2 team ... stable 2026-07-06
skylight.io Free Application performance monitoring — free for first 100,000 traces/month. 2026-07-13
economize.cloud Free Economize helps demystify cloud infrastructure costs by organizing cloud resources to optimize and report the same. Free... stable 2026-07-12
Elastic Free OSS The Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, ingest and basic security — self-managed at no cost on the Free and Open tier... stable 2026-08-27
Grafana Free OSS Grafana OSS — the self-hosted dashboarding and alerting front end, free under AGPL-3.0-only with Apache-2.0 exceptions. ... stable 2026-08-27
loader.io Free Free load testing tools with limitations 2026-07-09
pingbreak.com Free Modern uptime monitoring service. Check unlimited URLs and get downtime notifications via Discord, Slack, or email. 2026-07-12
Sentry Developer Developer tier: 1 user, 5K errors/month, 5M spans/month, 50 session replays, 5GB application logs, 1GB attachments stable 2026-08-11
StatusPile Free A status page of status pages. Could you track the status pages of your upstream providers? 2026-07-07
pagecrawl.io Free Monitor website changes, free for up to 6 monitors with 60-minute interval checks. stable 2026-07-12
linkok.com Free As of 2026-08-28, linkok.com reads: Free forever for small sites (up to 100 pages) with monthly scans and email reports… Our stored linkok.com terms are superseded and withheld. caution
discovered 2026-08-28 restructured
2026-07-12
incidenthub.cloud Free Cloud and SaaS status page aggregator — 5 monitors and 2 notification channels (Slack and Discord) are free forever. caution
2026-04-12 reduced
2026-07-12
Jaeger Free OSS Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated distributed tracing system. End-to-end request tracing, performance optimization, ... 2026-08-26
pagertree.com Free Simple interface for alerting and on-call management. Free up to 5 users. stable 2026-07-12
downtimemonkey.com Free 60 uptime monitors, 5-minute interval. Email, Slack alerts. 2026-07-09
Wachete Free monitor five pages, checks every 24 hours. stable 2026-07-11
sitesure.net Free Website and cron monitoring - 2 monitors free 2026-07-10
assertible.com Free Automated API testing and monitoring. Free plans for teams and individuals. 2026-07-12
phare.io Free Uptime Monitoring free for up to 100,000 events for unlimited projets and unlimited status pages. stable 2026-07-13
Hyperping Free Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 20 monitors (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), 5-minute check interval, 1 basic... caution
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Sematext Basic (Free) Observability platform — Logs: 500 MB/day ingestion, 7-day retention. Monitoring: 3 hosts, 3 containers/host, 30-min dat... stable 2026-07-05
StatusCake Free Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors, 5-min intervals, 1 page speed monitor, 1 domain monitor, 1 SSL monitor, email alerts, b... stable 2026-08-13
deadmanssnitch.com Free Monitoring for cron jobs. One free snitch (monitor), more if you refer others to sign up 2026-07-09
bleemeo.com Free Free for 3 servers, 5 uptime monitors, unlimited users, unlimited dashboards, unlimited alerting rules. stable 2026-07-11
OntarioNet.ca CN Test Free Check if a website is blocked in China by the Great Firewall. It identifies DNS pollution by comparing DNS results and A... 2026-07-10
incident.io Basic Incident management platform — free Basic plan: up to 5 users, Slack or Microsoft Teams native incident response, single... stable 2026-09-08
Healthchecks.io Free Cron job and scheduled task monitoring — 20 monitors, 100 log entries per job, email/webhook/Slack/Telegram alerts, API ... stable 2026-09-05
BetterStack Free 10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page, 1... stable 2026-08-13
robusta.dev Free Powerful Kubernetes monitoring based on Prometheus. Bring your own Prometheus or install the all-in-one bundle. The free... stable 2026-07-12
PagerDuty Free Incident management — 5 users, 1 on-call schedule, 1 escalation policy, 100 intl phone/SMS notifications/month, 700+ int... stable 2026-09-06
Pulsetic Free Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors (HTTP/heartbeat/API), 5-minute check interval, 3 regions, 3-month history, 3 status page... stable 2026-09-06
MonitorMonk Free Minimalist uptime monitoring with beautiful status pages. The Forever Free plan offers HTTPS, Keyword, SSL and Response-... stable 2026-09-08
360 Monitoring Lite Server and website monitoring (formerly Nixstats) — free Lite plan: 1 server monitor, 5 site monitors, 10-minute check i... stable 2026-09-10
UptimeObserver.com Free Get 20 uptime monitors with 5-minute intervals and a customizable status page—even for commercial use. Enjoy unlimited, ... 2026-07-11
Grafana Cloud Free Free tier with 10K metric series, 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces, 14-day retention, 3 users stable 2026-08-14
SigNoz Free OSS OpenTelemetry-native observability with logs, metrics and traces in one tool. The community edition is free to self-host... stable 2026-08-27
Datadog Free Infrastructure monitoring free for up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention stable 2026-08-12
pingpong.one Free Advanced status page platform with monitoring. The free tier includes one public customizable status page with an SSL su... 2026-07-14
Servervana Free Uptime monitoring with support for large projects and teams. Free tier: 1 HTTP monitor, 1 DNS monitor, and 1 status page... caution
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Cronitor Hacker Cron job and uptime monitoring — free Hacker plan: 5 monitors, 5-minute check frequency, email, Slack, and webhook alert... stable 2026-08-18
Axiom Personal Observability platform — 500 GB ingest/month, 25 GB storage, 30-day retention, 2 datasets, 1 user, 10 GB-hrs/mo query co... stable 2026-08-31
UptimeRobot Free 50 uptime monitors, 5-minute check intervals, 3-month log retention, email alerts. Personal/non-commercial use only on f... stable 2026-08-19
netdata.cloud Free Netdata is an open-source tool to collect real-time metrics. It's a growing product and can also be found on GitHub! stable 2026-07-08
syagent.com Free Free server monitoring service with alerts and metrics. Up to 25 servers and 25 uptime monitoring instances. stable 2026-09-09
uptimetoolbox.com Free Free monitoring for five websites, 3-minute intervals, public statuspage. stable 2026-07-11
Uptimia Free Website uptime monitoring — free plan: 1 website, 5-minute check interval, basic uptime monitoring, email alerts. No cre... stable 2026-08-22
Core Web Vitals History Free Find Core Web Vitals history for a url or a website. 2026-07-08
SweetUptime Free Server monitoring, uptime monitoring, DNS & domain monitoring. Monitor 10 server, 10 uptime, and 10 domain for free. stable 2026-07-12
Google Cloud Monitoring Always Free Always Free: all non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics, first 1M monitoring API calls/month. Dashboards, alerting, and upt... stable 2026-08-18
AppSignal Free Application monitoring (APM, errors, logging) — free plan: 50,000 requests/month, 1 GB logging/month, 5-day data retenti... stable 2026-09-08

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