Pricing trends for Monitoring: 20 tracked pricing changes across 59 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

Monitoring Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

59
Vendors
4%
of All Tracked Changes
9
At-Risk Vendors
restructured 7 reduced 4 increased 3 removed 3 restricted 1 rebranded 1 deprecated 1

Pricing Change Timeline

restructured uptimetoolbox.com discovered 2026-09-12 · effective date unknown medium
The free tier now has limits of 5 monitors, 3-minute checks, 1 status page, 1 server, 7-day hi-res retention, and 3-month historical data. Source ↗
reduced OnlineOrNot discovered 2026-09-12 · effective date unknown medium
The free tier (Hobby) now only includes 2 users instead of 3, and does not include SMS alerts, webhooks, or on-call integrations. The status page is now a 'limited status page' instead of a full status page. Source ↗
restructured SigNoz discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown high
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 ↗
restructured Grafana discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown medium
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 ↗
reduced BetterStack discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown medium
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 ↗
increased StatusCake discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown low
The free tier now includes server monitoring (3 tests) and SMS credits, but the test intervals for uptime monitoring are 5 minutes, and the page speed monitor is limited to 1. The free tier also includes alerts through integrations. Source ↗
restructured Grafana Cloud discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown high
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 ↗
removed fivenines.io discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown high
The page now highlights a 14-day free trial and a starting plan at €19/month. Source ↗
restructured linkok.com discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown high
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 ↗
restricted Pingmeter.com discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown medium
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 ↗
increased SweetUptime discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown low
The free tier now offers 20 uptime monitors, 20 domain & SSL checks, and 10 servers. Previously 10 of each. Source ↗
rebranded phare.io discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown low
The free tier is now called the 'Hobby plan' and still offers unlimited team members, unlimited projects, and all core features with no credit card required. Source ↗
removed Xitoring.com discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown high
The page highlights a 14-day free trial, and then lists paid plans starting at $4.99/mo. Source ↗
restructured Hyperping effective 2026-04-21 medium
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 ↗
deprecated stathat.com effective 2026-04-12 medium
Domain no longer resolves (DNS ENOTFOUND). We hold no source for this record, so it does not set stathat.com's rating.
reduced incidenthub.cloud effective 2026-04-12 medium
Free tier monitors reduced from 20 to 5 Source ↗
reduced Servervana effective 2026-04-12 medium
Free tier HTTP monitors reduced from 10 to 1 Source ↗
increased economize.cloud effective 2026-04-12 low
Free tier cloud spend limit increased from $5,000/month GCP-only to $100,000/month across all cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) Source ↗
removed Freshping effective 2026-03-06 high
Freshping shut down entirely. Free accounts disabled March 6, 2026. Paid plans expire at end of term. All data deleted 90 days later (~June 4, 2026). No replacement product offered by Freshworks Source ↗
restructured Sentry effective 2025-08-15 medium
Switched from performance units to spans-based metrics for error and performance monitoring Source ↗

We hold 3 more records filed under this category that are not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.

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