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Uptime Kuma

Beautiful self-hosted uptime monitoring

verified 2026-07-02MITself-hostable

Arete score

4.8 / 5

Autonomy5

Return5

Efficiency4

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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✓ Verified by a human against the public rubric on 2026-07-02 · see the evidence ↓

Why it's listed

Written by the ValueIndex editor, from the verification pass of 2026-07-02.

Uptime Kuma gives you status checks, a status page, and 90+ notification channels from one container with a SQLite file — for the homelab-to-small-business scale, it replaces paid monitoring entirely. We verified the single-container deploy and the absence of any gated features.

Facts

License: MIT
Pricing: Free
Funding model: Indie OSS
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: easy
Replaces: Pingdom, UptimeRobot
Verification: Verified against the rubric on 2026-07-02

Evidence notes

One container, SQLite; 60k+ stars; replaces paid monitors for homelab scale

Recorded during the rubric pass — every score must carry evidence a stranger could re-check.

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