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Monitoring, uptime & alerts, ranked by value — not ad spend

Know when things break without paying per host, per metric, per alert. From one-container uptime checks to the full Prometheus stack.

No paid placement. Ranked by evidence against four principles: transparency, value density, privacy, efficiency. How we rank →
Our pick
ntfy — Push notifications via simple HTTP PUT 5.0
#ToolT·V·P·EIndexType
1 ntfy
Push notifications via simple HTTP PUT
5.0 self-host ~
2 Uptime Kuma
Beautiful self-hosted uptime monitoring
4.8 self-host
3 Gotify
Minimal self-hosted push server
4.8 self-host ~
4 Healthchecks.io
Dead-simple cron job monitoring
4.8 self-host ~
5 Prometheus
Pull-based metrics & alerting, CNCF-graduated
4.8 self-host ~
6 Grafana
The observability dashboard standard
4.0 self-host ~
7 Netdata
Per-second system metrics out of the box
3.5 self-host ~

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