Looking for a Hosted Uptime Kuma Alternative?

If you're comparing uptime monitors and would rather not run your own server, here's what Site Monitor offers: hosted uptime and response-time monitoring, public status pages, and content change detection, ready in a minute.

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Free plan · 10 URLs · hourly checks · 2 AI summaries/mo · no credit card

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How it works

  1. Nothing to host

    No server or container to maintain. Sign up and paste a URL.

  2. Add your sites and APIs

    Set the HTTP method, headers, and body for APIs, and the expected status code or response text.

  3. Share your status

    Publish a public status page or embed live status on your site.

You choose which alerts each URL sends — downtime, content changes, slow responses — and we email you when they happen.

What Site Monitor offers

  • Fully hosted and maintained for you
  • Content change detection for a whole page or one element
  • Plain-English AI summaries of what changed
  • Uptime, recovery, and response-time alerts
  • Broken-link checks and screenshot history (paid plans)
  • Public status pages and an embeddable status widget
  • A Free plan: 10 URLs, hourly checks, 2 AI summaries a month

Monitoring that doesn't depend on your own server

Site Monitor is a hosted service: checks, storage, and alerting are run for you, outside your own infrastructure, so an outage on your server doesn't also take down the thing watching it. If you need monitoring that runs entirely on your own network, a self-hosted tool may suit you better.

Catch pages that are up but wrong

An error message rendered inside a working layout, an empty product list, or a missing checkout button can all return 200 OK. Site Monitor's content checks are designed to catch these alongside regular uptime checks.

Paid plans check as often as every 5 minutes; the Free plan checks hourly.

How to choose a website monitor

Start with what you need to know. If you only care whether a site responds, a basic uptime check is enough. If you need to know what changed on a page — a price, a policy clause, a list of dates — look for content change detection and element (CSS selector) targeting.

Then consider where checks run (in the cloud or on your own machine), how often you need them, how alerts reach you, and whether you want summaries of changes or raw diffs. Trying two tools side by side on the same URLs for a week is the most reliable way to decide.

Frequently asked questions

Is Site Monitor open source or self-hostable?

No. Site Monitor is a hosted service.

Can I publish a status page?

Yes. Create a public status page for any of your monitors and share its link, or embed it on your own site with a short script snippet.

How often does Site Monitor check a page?

Free checks every hour. Paid plans check as often as every 5 minutes, and you can set the interval per URL.

Is Site Monitor free?

Yes. The Free plan covers 10 URLs checked every hour, with 2 AI change summaries a month — no credit card required. Upgrade only if you need faster checks, more URLs, or more AI summaries.

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Free plan · 10 URLs · hourly checks · 2 AI summaries/mo · no credit card

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Uptime Kuma is a trademark of its respective owner. Site Monitor is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Uptime Kuma. This page describes Site Monitor only — see Uptime Kuma's own website for information about their product.