Uptime Kuma Has a Free Self-Hosted Monitoring Tool — Here's How to Use It

Pingdom costs $15/month. UptimeRobot's free tier has limits. Uptime Kuma is a beautiful, self-hosted uptime monitor — unlimited checks, notifications everywhere, and a stunning dashboard. What Is Uptime Kuma? Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool. It checks if your websites, APIs, and services are up — and alerts you through 90+ notification channels when they go down. Quick Start docker run -d --restart = always -p 3001:3001 \ -v uptime-kuma:/app/data \ --name uptime-kuma \ louislam/uptime-kuma:1 Visit http://localhost:3001 — set up admin account and start monitoring. Monitor Types HTTP(S) — check if website returns 200 TCP Port — check if port is open Ping — ICMP ping DNS — verify DNS records Docker Container — check container health Steam Game Server — game server monitoring MQTT — message broker check gRPC — service health Radius — network auth server Notification Channels (90+) Slack, Discord, Telegram, Email (SMTP), Microsoft Teams, Webhook, PagerDuty, Pushover, Gotify, Ma