There are many tools to monitor your website and if you are a startup, blogger, or developer and looking for basic features, the following free solutions should be sufficient for you.
I’ve picked the following by considering essential features like to monitor from multiple locations, alerting when site is down, response time, and monitoring frequency.
Note
Free tools are good to monitor non-critical websites. However, if you are running a SaaS, eCommerce or business site, you should consider premium site monitoring tools instead for better reliability and advanced features.
Free Website Monitoring Tools
StatusCake Free Includes
- 3 site monitoring
- 15 minutes checks interval
- 1 email alerting
Uptime Kumar Features
- Docker-based
- Status page
- Monitor as frequently as 20 seconds
Checkly Free Includes
- 10 site monitoring
- 10,000 API checks
- 4 monitoring location
Better Stack Free Includes
- 10 site or cron monitoring
- Slack and email alerting
- 100,000 exceptions
UptimeRobot Free Includes
- HTTP(s), port, ping, and keyword monitoring
- One public status page to display uptime reports
- Real-time alerts via email and third-party integrations
- Monitor 50 websites with uptime tracking every 5 minutes
Pulsetic Free Includes
- 3 status pages
- 10 site or API monitoring
- 3 months monitoring logs
Hyperping Free Includes
- 30 seconds monitoring frequency
- 1 status page
- SSL monitoring and healthchecks
Cronitor Free Includes
- Real-time alerts via email, Slack, and Discord
- Monitor 5 websites
- 100K RUM events
I hope the above list of tools help you to monitor your site for free. If you are sysadmin or DIY person, you can go for self-hosted solution like Uptime Kuma, Sitespeed,io or Prometheus+Grafana. If you want something quick, go for Uptime Robot or StatusCake.
