Uptime Kuma Has a Free API: Self-Hosted Monitoring That Actually Looks Good

What is Uptime Kuma? Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool that checks if your websites, APIs, and services are up. Think of it as a free, open-source alternative to UptimeRobot, Pingdom, or Better Uptime — with a beautiful UI and 20+ notification methods. Why Uptime Kuma? 100% free — open-source, self-hosted Beautiful UI — modern dashboard, status pages included 20+ notifications — Slack, Discord, Telegram, Email, PagerDuty, Webhooks Multiple check types — HTTP, TCP, Ping, DNS, Docker, gRPC, SQL Status pages — public status page for your users 2-minute setup — one Docker command Quick Start # One command to run docker run -d --restart = always -p 3001:3001 \ -v uptime-kuma:/app/data \ --name uptime-kuma \ louislam/uptime-kuma:1 # Dashboard at http://localhost:3001 Monitor Types HTTP(s) — Check website availability and response time TCP Port — Check if a port is open (databases, Redis) Ping — ICMP ping for server availability DNS — Verify DNS records resolve correctly Docker — C