As a webmaster you must have faced issues with your website being down and non-functional at unseen times, due to a server or network error. According to Murphy’s law this always happens when:
- you just launched a great new product or functionality
- you are on holidays
- your boss or some key person decided to show the webpage to someone.
Life is that hard! How can you make your life a bit easier? It is impractical to manually check the number of times your website faces unpredictable downtimes. Hence, to your rescue, you have a number of services online that offer free uptime monitoring.
These services alert you either via email or SMS or any other modern means of contact that immediately alerts you of a downtime. As soon as you receive the alert, you can get working on the the problem that caused the downtime and fix the issue in the least possible time.
These services also help you decide whether to plan upgrades or consider purchasing options that balance loads on the said network.
I have collected a list of 50 such free uptime monitoring services.
They are categorized into three parts: Absolutely Free Uptime Monitoring Services (the majority of them, although they may have premium features), Free Uptime Monitoring Services That Require Backlinks and Uptime Monitoring Services With A Free Trial. They are as follows:
Absolutely Free Uptime Monitoring Services
1. Uptime Robot
Uptime Robot Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – uptimerobot.com)
With a free account on this free uptime monitoring service, you can monitor up to 50 websites. It checks your site’s header and gets status codes like 200-ok or 404-not found every five minutes. If the status codes is anything other than these and the site is not loading, UptimeRobot diagnoses the site for 30 seconds more. If the problem still persists, it sends alert via email, SMS, Twitter, web hooks or Pushbullet.
Apart from uptime and downtime monitoring, the service also helps monitor server (ping), monitoring keywords (if keywords exist or not in a webpage) and monitoring port (such as SMTP, DNS, POP).
2. Monitor.us
Monitor.us Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit monitor.us)
Monitor.us carries out free uptime monitoring that is easily customizable and has a list of interesting and useful features. This tool not only helps you monitor your site’s uptime, but also lets you monitor your network and server performance and page load time. It sends you alerts via SMS and emails and to your Android and iOS devices with its mobile monitoring service.
3. Pingdom
Pingdom Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – pingdom.com)
Pingdom offers free uptime monitoring of one website for free. You get unlimited email alerts and 20 SMS alerts. You also receive a monthly uptime report for your website along with percentage of uptime.
For more features you can take a look at their paid plans.
4. Montastic
Montastic Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – montastic.com)
Get email alerts when your site goes down and when your site goes up with this free uptime monitoring service. The service monitors your website’s uptime every 30 minutes under the free plan.
If you want them to monitor your website’s uptime every five minutes and monitor more than three websites, then you would have to go for their paid plans.
5. Site 24×7
Site24x7 Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – site24x7.com)
Site24x7 offers free uptime monitoring services with website, network, server, port and FTP monitoring and testing SSL certificate expiry. You can monitor five basic websites from one location. The monitoring is done every 10 minutes as per the free plan.
You can always upgrade to paid plans for advanced features.
6. Service Uptime
ServiceUptime Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – serviceuptime.com)
ServiceUptime allows one monitoring per free account from 10 monitoring locations. You can access account statistics for the whole period of monitoring. The stats are never deleted. You can opt for uptime reports daily, monthly, weekly and yearly. You can also set custom timezone and daylight saving. You get alerts in the form of emails and SMS.
7. SiteUptime
SiteUptime Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – siteuptime.com)
You can monitor one site for free with SiteUptime’s free uptime monitoring service. The monitoring interval for the free account is 30 to 60 mins. In the free plan, you can only receive email alerts.
For advanced features you can refer to their paid plans.
8. 100Pulse
100Pulse Free Uptime Monitoring Service
(image credit – 100Pulse.com)
(image credit – 100Pulse.com)
You can monitor two websites for free with an interval of 15 minutes. You can opt to get alerts on email, SMS, RSS feed, Twitter or iGoogle.
You can customize your paid plans and avail of discounts too, as shown in theirpricing page.
9. Binary Canary
BinaryCanary Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – binarycanary.com)
You get five monitors for free with BinaryCanary uptime monitoring services under the free plan. You can have multiple users per account email, SMS or SMS by email alerts.
If you like this service you can access more features by opting for their paid plans.
10. UptimeSpy
UptimeSpy Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – uptimespy.com)
Get unlimited email alerts for one site under the free plan of UptimeSpy’s free uptime monitoring service. This service monitor’s your site performance at multiple locations around the world, so if your site is down at one location it does not mean that it is down at another. Get response time reports that helps you spot problem areas.
11. Host-Tracker
Host-Tracker Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – host-tracker.com)
You can monitor two urls within an interval of 30 minutes between each. You will also get weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly reports. These features are included in a free user account.
If you want to access advanced features, check out their paid plans.
12. InternetSeer
InternetSeer Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – internetseer.com)
You can have unlimited contacts to receive the uptime/downtime alerts of your site. The monitored frequency of the standard/free plan is 60 minutes. You also receive real-time error and recovery notification and weekly performance reports.
13. Vertain
Vertain Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – vertain.com)
Get weekly uptime reports and the current status of the server (whether it is up or down), for free. The report looks like this.
To access more website monitoring features offered by the site, check out their paid plans.
14. Uppanel
Uppanel Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – uppanel.com)
Uppanel.com is a free uptime monitoring service that alert you via email, SMS or phone if your site is down. You are also notified when the site is back online. The service is absolutely free.
15. Website Pulse
WebsitePulse Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – websitepulse.com)
WebsitePulse free uptime monitoring service offers free website monitoring with limited features. It monitors one server every one hour and gives email alerts of the same.
To take a look at other plans of this service, click here.
16. StatusCake
Statuscake Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – statuscake.com)
In the free plan of Status Cake, you are eligible for unlimited tests at a check rate of every five minutes. You will also get unlimited alerts via email, push notification, Boxcar, Pushover and Webhooks for free. Also, included in the free account is a 24/7 support, unlike seen on other free services.
You will find additional benefits in a paid account.
17. MonTools
MonTools Free Uptime Monitoring Tool (image credit – montools.com)
MonTools provides free uptime monitoring of your website or server at regular intervals, specified by you. You will receive email, text, Twitter whenever your site is down (phone alerts not included in free account). They allow alerts up to three people under the free account.
If you want to take advantage of advanced features check out their paid plans.
18. Verelo
- Verelo Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – Verelo.com)
Verelo offers ten free checks and sends alerts to ten users. The time between each website check is five seconds. You can integrate Google Analytics with this application. It also allows PagerDuty integration to send notifications. You get email, phone and SMS notification for free. You also get SSL monitoring, response time monitoring, uptime monitoring and also provides you Emergency Response Lines (one number to trigger an outbound conference call with your entire team).
19. LiveWatch
LiveWatch Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – livewatch.de)
This free uptime monitoring service gives you downtime alerts via email, SMS, telephone, messenger and Twitter. It gives you a graphical analysis of the report and a PDF protocol that is created for 30 days after each failure in the report. Thepremium plan offers additional features.
20. NewRelic
NewRelic Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – newrelic.com)
NewRelic is a uptime monitoring service with a forever free plan with limited features. They include application response time monitoring, monitoring of most time consuming transactions, performance of external services, database monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, availability and error monitoring, security checks and App speed index reports.
Check out the feature comparison chart of free and paid plans.
21. Anturis
Anturis Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – anturis.com)
You can monitor up to five infrastructure resource (e.g. server, website HTTP latency, CPU load etc) under the free account. The monitoring is at an interval of one minute. You will also receive unlimited email alerts.
They have premium plans for small, medium to large-sized businesses too.
22. Google Doc
Google Doc Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – docs.google.com)
There is no dearth to the services Google shower us with and free website monitoring is one of them. You need to sign in with your Google account and access this Google Doc to monitor your website’s uptime/downtime. You can track any number of websites on this Google Doc, it will track your website every five minutes. You can check your site’s uptime and downtime log in the same Google spreadsheet. You will receive email and text alerts.
Read this blog for more setup details.
23. Pingability
Pingability Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – pingability.com)
If you have lesser than 750 checks per month (which is about once an hour for a month) you can access free website monitoring from Pingability. SMS and phone alerts are not included in the free plan. You can run more checks for free if you give a link back to their site from yours.
Pricing plans are shown here.
24. GotSiteMonitor
GoSiteMonitor Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – gotsitemonitor.com)
You can monitor five sites, with a time interval of five minutes between each monitor. With one user account allowed in the free plan, you can also get access to unlimited email alerts and 20 phone or SMS alerts.
Enhanced features are available with paid plans.
25. My Hosting Uptime
MyHostingUptime Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – myhostinguptime.com)
MyHostingUptime is a free uptime monitoring service that provides uptime monitoring of multiple sites from multiple locations in the world. You receive alerts in the form of email and Tweets. You have to submit your website URL after registration and choose your hosting provider. If your hosting provider is not listed on their site, you can submit details about your hosting provider and it will take ten days to receive your first report.
26. Monitive
Monitive Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – monitive.com)
Under a free account, Monitive monitors one website, every ten minutes. You also get unlimited email and Twitter alerts.
For enhanced features you can opt for the paid plans.
27. ServerMojo
Server Mojo Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – servermojo.com)
The site gives you three paid plans and free trials to all the three of them. But they also offer a completely free uptime monitoring service with limited features. In order to maintain the free account, you must periodically visit your ServerMojo account. You will get alerts via email, SMS or Twitter, for one server per free account. The tests are done every one hour.
28. Port-Monitor
- Port-Monitor Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – port-monitor.com)
Port-monitor invites its users to access the free service before they launch their paid services. In the free service, you get up to ten checks at an interval of 60 seconds. Unlimited notifications via email and weekly/monthly reports are provided in the free account.
29. Downnotifier
Downnotifier Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – downnotifier.com)
You can monitor your site and get email or SMS alerts. Signing up with Downnotifier is easy with a social login. You will also receive extended monitoring reports on your site.
For advanced features the premium plan is available for $14.95 per year.
30. UptimeFiles
UptimeFiles Free Uptime Monitoring Tool (image credit – uptimefiles.com)
UptimeFiles is a free uptime monitoring service that was recommended by our reader Alex and Nata below in comments. As clearly explained by the headline of its homepage, it monitors unlimited websites with an interval of one minute for 10 locations in the UK, U.S.A, Germany, France and Singapore. The tool gives you instant real-time stats on the uptime, load, response, host outage, site outage and server outage.
31. UptimeDoctor
UptimeDoctor Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – uptimedoctor.com)
You get uptime monitoring for free from Uptime Doctor with 20 Push alerts per month and unlimited email alerts. You can test five sites within one minute interval and add unlimited contacts to receive the alerts. To receive SMS in the free plan, you will have to pay $0.40 per message.
32. Site-Monitoring
Site-Monitoring Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – site-monitoring.net)
Your website is monitored at regular intervals with this free uptime monitoring service. You will receive email and SMS notification in real-time when your website goes offline. The site provides free reports and stores up to two years of historical data. The service also provides webpage content checking for keywords and has awebsite monitoring widget for Android.
33. FreeSiteStatus
- FreeSiteStatus Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – freesitestatus.com)
Get free email alerts of your website’s uptime that is tested every hour under the free plan. The service gives you uptime reports and statistics and performance statistics every 60 days. You can have only email account setup in the free plan.
Check out the comparison between free and paid plans.
34. MonitorScout
Monitor Scout Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – monitorscout.com)
Monitor Scout’s free package gives access to external monitoring from five locations.
35. Uptime Agent
UptimeAgent Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – uptimeagent.com)
Monitor your site at no extra cost, and view uptime statistics in your control panel. Get notified when visitors cannot reach your website. Also, the service notifies you when your server IP or site is blacklisted in one of the 400 spam blacklists.
36. Free-Backup.info
- Free-Backup Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – free-backup.info)
Get SMS and email alerts from this free uptime monitoring service. They claim to be a zero-spam service but if you want to unsubscribe the emails you can always click the cancel notifications link in the email alerts.
Free Uptime Monitoring Services That Require Backlinks
37. UptimeDog
Uptime Dog Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – uptimedog.com)
It is a free website monitoring service that checks your site’s online status every two minutes from two different geographical location. You get email alerts when your site is down. The service requires you to place an HTML link to their website on each of the website that you setup for uptime monitoring.
38. Supermonitoring
Supermonitoring Free Uptime Monitoring Service (image credit – free.supermonitoring.com)
With three monitoring servers spread in North America, Europe and Asia, Supermonitoring offers free uptime monitoring service that tests sites every five minutes. You get email alerts and uptime and downtime history of your site. But to avail the free plan you will have to place a microbanner of the service provider onto your website’s footer.
Uptime Monitoring Services With A Free Trial
39. Dotcom-Monitor
Dotcom-Monitor Uptime Monitoring Service With Free Trial (image credit – dotcom-monitor.com)
Dotcom-Monitor offers website, network and server monitoring along with page load monitoring and web app functionality monitoring. You can create custom alerts via phone, email, text and more. The service also records complex interactions with your site and automatically monitor playback for issues.
The service comes with a 30-day free trial and the pricing starts at $5.99 per month.
40. Uptrends
Uptrends Uptime Monitoring Service With A Free Trial (image credit – uptrends.com)
The service offers varying intervals of monitoring from five seconds to ten minutes. You get detailed online reports and email reports. You can add unlimited contacts, get email, RSS, SMS and IM alerts, snapshots of errors, transaction recorder and free customer support.
The service provides a four-week free trial and the pricing starts from $23 per month.
41. CheckMySite
CheckMySite Uptime Monitoring Service With A Free Trial (image credit – checkmysite.com)
The service includes one to three checks and 20 SMS alerts every month. It lets you log files up to the past 30 days. Your site or server is checked every five minutes.
The service comes with a four-week free trial and pricing starts from $13 per month.
42. Alertra
Alertra Uptime Monitoring Service With A Free Trial (image credit – alertra.com)
Get free email and Google talk alerts when your site is down. Phone and SMS alerts are charged at $0.29 and $0.19 respectively. Alertra also gives you notifications viaWebhooks. They check your servers every minute and wait for consecutive failures from three different locations before they send you an alert. Here is a list of the service features that Alertra offers.
You can take a 30-day free trial and pricing starts from $9.95 per month to monitor 50 URLs (20 cents for one URL).
43. AlertFox
AlertFox Uptime Monitoring Service With A Free Trial (image credit – alertfox.com)
Get real-time alerts on your website’s downtime, transaction monitoring, real-browser views, root cause analysis, in-depth reporting and troubleshooting with a AlertFox paid account.
The service provides a 30-day free trial and the pricing starts from $99 per month.
44. Wormly
Wormly Uptime Monitoring Service With A Free Trial (image credit – wormly.com)
Wormly monitors your site every five minutes and sends instant failure alerts via sms, email, phone call, short email, ICQ and HTTP/Remote Procedure Call. You can have multiple user accounts. The service detects server health and diagnose problems that helps you solve your issues before the occurrence of a downtime. Get detailed uptime reporting with SLA metrics and performance trends.
Get a free trial (period of free trial not specified) and pricing starts from $19 per month.
45. Monitis
Monitis Uptime Monitoring Service With A Free Trial (image credit – monitis.com)
Monitis Inc. shares with us a free uptime monitoring service in the form of Monitor.us (that is listed above). Monitis provides paid service with core differences from its free service such as, the ability to save monitoring history, the number of monitoring locations and the frequency of checks. It provides instant alerts via email, IM, SMS, Twitter, phone and mobile push notifications.
It provides a free trial for 15 days and the pricing is customizable, which starts from approximately $5 per month.
46. CopperEgg
CopperEgg Uptime Monitoring Service With A Free Trial (image credit – copperegg.com)
CopperEgg provides high resolution server monitoring with holistic dashboards and historical data trends. It also provides root cause analysis and measures website response times. It monitors CPU, processes, load, memory, Swap and disk volume. It sends alerts via email, SMS, pageduty or webhooks.
CopperEgg provides a 14-day free trial and customizable pricing that starts from $70 per month.
47. AreWeOnline
AreWeOnline Uptime Monitoring Service With A Free Trial (image credit – areweonline.com)
AreWeOnline offers real-time website monitoring, email and FTP server monitoring, website performance monitoring, content checking, website spam and blacklist notifications and domain expiration monitoring. It offers unlimited email, SMS and IM alerts, in real-time.
You get to try the service for 30 days and the pricing starts from $9.99 per month.
48. InternetVista
InternetVista Uptime Monitoring Service With A Free Trial (image credit – internetvista.com)
Monitor all your internet services and get real-time alerts via sms, email, twitter and RSS. The monitoring frequency is one minute and the service provides more regular checks in case of breakdown. You get extensive reports of your server response times, performance reports and uptime reports that help identify breakdowns.
They provide a 30-day free trial and their pricing is customizable.
49. AreMySitesUp
AreMySitesUp Uptime Monitoring Service With A Free Trial (image credit- aremysitesup.com)
You will be able to monitor from 5 to 120 sites depending on the package you choose. The sites are checked every minute. Unlimited email alerts are sent along with SMS alerts (international SMS included), voice call notifications, webhooks, push notifications on iPhone and Android phones. It also monitors your page for keywords.
The service offers a 15-day free trial and pricing starts from $8 per month.
50. Observu
Observu Uptime Service Monitoring Service With A Free Trial (image credit – observu.com)
You can monitor 5 to 50 web applications (server, http, ping, custom) and get downtime notifications via email, SMS, phone and Twitter.
You can try Observu for free for 30 days and pricing starts from $8.95 per month.
These were the 50 free uptime monitoring services listed out for you, along with their significant features. Hope you liked this extensive list of categorized uptime monitoring services.
