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Uptime Kuma

Beautiful self-hosted uptime monitoring

verified 2026-07-02MITself-hostable
Value Index
4.8 / 5
Transparency5
Value density5
Privacy5
Efficiency4

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Why it's listed

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

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