What do you use for monitoring your website?
What is a good monitoring tool for websites for an indie hacker. I want to do basic things such as check for uptime and check for some special conditions on certain pages. There are too many monitoring tools but non of them seems to fit my scale. Uptimerobot.com is the right price point for me but the UI is unbearable. Using it for multiple years now but I cant put up with it any more!
Any suggestion for an uptime monitoring tool for indie hackers?
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If you want something that feels sane for an indie hacker and does not fight you every day, I would switch to Pulsetic https://pulsetic.com/
It covers the basics really well, uptime checks, alerts, and monitoring specific conditions or content on pages, without the cluttered UI that tools like UptimeRobot suffer from. The interface is clean, fast, and actually usable when you have more than a handful of monitors.
What I like for indie scale:
If UptimeRobot is the right price but the UI is draining you, Pulsetic is a very natural upgrade. It feels built for people who care about their projects but do not want to manage monitoring infrastructure as a side job.
Late to this thread but just launched something that might fit: OwlPulse.
Simple REST API, $9/mo flat for unlimited monitors with 1-min checks. Free tier has 3 monitors at 5-min intervals.
Built it because I had the same UptimeRobot frustration. No bloated dashboards, just endpoints you can hit from anywhere.
Happy to give free Pro access to anyone who wants to try it out!
I use https://pulsetic.com/
30-second checks, multiple monitors and locations, plus a wide range of integrations and alert channels.
https://www.pingdom.com/ is an old solution for this.
Yup, this is true.. It is just that its a bit out of my budget for the scale that I am at right now
Nice.. thank you for sharing this.
I used UptimeRobot up until it went down for more than a day with hardly any way of knowing that it was down. They did not notify users that their system was down until days later. I expect an uptime monitoring service to be... well, reliable...
So I switched to Freshping. It's got a nice UI and, I think, the features that you need.
Just curious, for a website monitoring, no need to go to their website every day, I would say no need to see the dashboard at all (maybe once a month)
The UI/design is really matter ?
I mean you have a free awesome tool, giving you incredible service, just asking why the UI really matter ?
Of course Uptime is doing a very good job for its scale.. Btw I was also paying for it. But I guess I have outgrown it. When your systems needs to be highly available and have customers who complain that parts of your website are down - basically when uptime is critical for you, regular upkeep of the monitors matters. Hence the UI matters. I guess when the stakes were low, I was fine. Now, it is starting to matter.
@alexjv89 I working on similar problem, let me know if I can help. [email protected]
Personally I feel uptimerobot has perfect UI and functions for its usecase.
But maybe you have outgrown its usecase, in which case need to supplement it rather than replace.
I use uptimerobot to inform when my entire app is unaccessible, worst case scenario.
I use rollbar to notify about any and every error occurring (need to clear out all silent bugs first, which is a good thing) with detailed analysis of what, why and who.
I am still on uptime.. I am using Sentry instead of rollback. Thanks for the feedback.
ok, got it.
You have also pingdom uptime, which is good also very reliable
Freshworks has a free forever plan:
https://www.freshworks.com/website-monitoring/
https://pingping.io/ is maybe smth for you
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We offer 20-second monitoring intervals (much faster than the standard 5-minute checks), a clean, intuitive UI that won't drive you crazy, and flexible monitors for those "special conditions" you mentioned. Plus, we have a startup-friendly pricing tier.
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