Uptime Kuma
- About
- Self-hosted uptime monitoring tool with beautiful dashboard. Open-source alternative to UptimeRobot and Pingdom.
- Catalogue
- No. 057
- Category
- Data & Content
- Founded
- 2021, Hong Kong (Open Source)
- GitHub stars
- ★ 92.5k

Overview
Uptime Kuma is a fancy self-hosted monitoring tool that helps you monitor the uptime of your websites, APIs, and services. It features a beautiful and responsive web interface, support for multiple notification channels, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities including HTTP/HTTPS, TCP, DNS, and more.
What it does well
Uptime Kuma provides real-time monitoring with customizable intervals, multi-language support, and extensive notification options including Discord, Slack, email, and webhooks. It offers detailed statistics, status pages, certificate monitoring, and supports Docker deployment. The tool is lightweight, easy to set up, and completely free with no limitations.
Why it’s in the collection
Uptime Kuma is perfect for developers, system administrators, and businesses who want to monitor their services without relying on expensive third-party solutions. Its self-hosted nature ensures complete control over your monitoring data and privacy. The intuitive interface makes it accessible to both technical and non-technical users, while the extensive notification options ensure you're always aware of service issues.
On GitHub
- Stars
- 92,468
- Forks
- 8,560
- Commits
- 7,384
- Repository
- louislam/uptime-kuma
Languages
- JavaScript 54%
- Vue 43%
- TypeScript 1.3%
- Other 1.7%
Compared with
OpsgenieEnterprise incident management platform with advanced alerting, but expensive and complex for simple uptime monitoring.
Incident.ioModern incident management platform with great collaboration features, but focuses more on incident response than monitoring.
PulseticSimple website monitoring service with status pages, but subscription-based and limited customization.
Atlassian StatuspageProfessional status page solution with great integrations, but expensive and overkill for simple monitoring needs.



