Pricing trends for Monitoring: 19 tracked pricing changes across 59 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

Monitoring Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

59
Vendors
4%
of All Tracked Changes
6
At-Risk Vendors
restructured 6 reduced 4 increased 4 removed 3 rebranded 1 deprecated 1

Pricing Change Timeline

Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.

reduced AppSignal discovered 2026-09-26 · effective date unknown medium
The free plan now offers 30,000 requests/month instead of 50,000. Source ↗
reduced pagecrawl.io discovered 2026-09-20 · effective date unknown medium
The free tier now has limits of 6 pages, up to 220 checks, and a check frequency of up to 60 minutes. Previously up to 6 monitors with 60-minute interval checks. Source ↗
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 ↗
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 ↗
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 ↗
deprecated stathat.com discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown medium
Domain no longer resolves (DNS ENOTFOUND). We hold no source for this record, so it does not set stathat.com's rating.
increased economize.cloud discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown 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 ↗
increased Hyperping effective 2026-04-08 medium
Between 2026-03-08 and 2026-04-08, Hyperping's free plan went from 5 monitors checked every 3 minutes to 20 monitors checked every 5 minutes, with 1 basic status page and 1 seat. Paid plans did not change. 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 ↗
reduced incidenthub.cloud effective 2026-02-28 medium
Between 2026-02-10 and 2026-02-28, incidenthub.cloud cut its free tier from 10 monitors to 5 and dropped its status page; Discord and Slack integration remained. It had cut the free tier from 20 monitors to 10 in October 2025. Source ↗
restructured Sentry effective 2025-08-15 medium
Switched from performance units to spans-based metrics for error and performance monitoring Source ↗

We hold 9 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.

At-Risk Vendors

All 6 of the 59 vendors we list in this category that carry one. A vendor is named here for as long as a demotion is in force against it: a one-off pricing event, recorded against a source we cite, whose date falls in the last 180 days — or a standing condition, also cited, such as a free tier withdrawn or a product retired, which does not expire with time. A demotion can lift with nothing about the vendor having changed, and that happens on the day the vendor's newest qualifying event passes 180 days.

Stable Picks

All 23 of the 59 vendors we list in this category that qualify, not a selection of them. A vendor is named here for as long as no demotion is in force against it and we hold no change record for it dated in the last 90 days — any record, including ones the timeline above does not count. A vendor can join this section on a day we recorded nothing about it, when the later of those two clocks runs out: 90 days after its newest record, or the day the demotion against it lapses. It leaves on the day we file a new record, or the day we can no longer vouch for the terms we list.

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