Better Stack
↗Uptime checks, logs, incident response and status pages in one place.
FreemiumNo card
10 monitors, 3-minute checks, 1 status page, 1 GB logs/month and 3-day retention.
Monitoring
13 tools
Checkly
↗Code-first synthetic monitoring for web apps and APIs using Playwright.
FreemiumNo card
10k API checks and 1,500 browser checks/month, 1-minute frequency and 7-day retention.
Cronitor
↗Monitor cron jobs, websites, APIs and heartbeats with developer-friendly alerts
FreemiumNo card
Free plan: 5 monitors, email and Slack alerts, a status page, 5-minute checks and 50 subscribers. Business: 14-day trial, then $2 per monitor and $5 per user per month.
Grafana Cloud
↗Hosted dashboards, metrics, logs, traces and application observability.
FreemiumNo card
10k metric series, 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces and 14-day retention for 3 users.
healthchecks.io
↗Monitor cron jobs and background tasks with simple heartbeat URLs.
FreeNo card
Hosted free plan: 20 checks for one team member with email, webhook and chat integrations.
Highlight.io
↗Full-stack observability with session replay, errors, logs and traces
FreemiumNo cardOSS
Free forever: 500 monthly sessions, AI error grouping and up to 15 seats.
Instatus
↗Monitor services, coordinate incidents and publish polished status pages
FreemiumNo card
Starter free forever: 15 monitors with 2-minute checks, email alerts, 5 team members, 2 on-call members, a public status page and 200 subscribers. No credit card required.
Logtail
↗Centralize structured logs and query them quickly with SQL-like syntax.
FreemiumNo card
Better Stack free logs: 1 GB/month with 3-day retention, live tail, SQL queries and alerts.
New Relic
↗Full-stack application performance and infrastructure monitoring.
FreemiumNo card
100 GB data ingest/month, one full-platform user and unlimited basic users.
OpenStatus
↗Open-source uptime monitoring and status pages managed as code
FreemiumNo cardOSS
Hobby free plan: one monitor, one status page with three components and a minimum 10-minute check interval. No credit card required.
Sentry
↗Track errors, performance traces and user sessions across your stack.
FreemiumNo card
Developer: 5k errors, 5M spans, 50 replays and 5 GB logs/month for one user.
Uptime.com
↗Website, API and real-user monitoring with alerts and incident workflows.
Trial onlyNo card
No permanent free tier: the platform currently offers a time-limited free trial of its paid monitoring plans.
UptimeRobot
↗Simple uptime monitoring with alerting and public status pages.
FreemiumNo card
50 monitors with 5-minute checks, 3-month log retention and one basic status page.
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