SigNoz
92 · HealthyOpenTelemetry-native observability with logs, metrics and traces in one app.
Directory / Monitoring & error tracking
Open source Monitoring & error tracking
Uptime Kuma
83 · HealthyUptime monitor for HTTP, TCP, DNS and more, with status pages and many notification channels.
Source-available and unverified licenses
The code for these is public, but the license is not an OSI open source license, or we have not verified it yet. Check the license notes on each project before relying on it.
Sentry (self-hosted)
98 · HealthyError tracking and performance monitoring; the same code as Sentry's hosted service.
Directory / Monitoring & error tracking / Uptime Kuma
Uptime Kuma
Uptime monitor for HTTP, TCP, DNS and more, with status pages and many notification channels.
Will it still be around?
Health 83/100 · Healthy
Activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness. Breakdown
Alternative to
Savings proposal
At $17 a month (Pingdom Synthetic, 10 checks), self-hosting Uptime Kuma costs more: about $132 a month to run plus $480 to set up. It pays off once your Pingdom bill is above $132 a month, so enter your actual bill.
List price: Pingdom Synthetic, 10 checks, billed annually. Priced by number of checks, so enter your actual bill. Source, checked 2026-10-07.
Extra cost over 3 years
$4,638
Pays for itself
Not at this size
Extra cost in year one
$1,866
Each month
$17 → $132
Show as a table
| Month | Pingdom | Self-hosted | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | $0 | $480 | −$480 |
| Month 3 | $50 | $876 | −$827 |
| Month 6 | $99 | $1,272 | −$1,173 |
| Month 9 | $149 | $1,668 | −$1,520 |
| Month 12 | $198 | $2,064 | −$1,866 |
| Month 18 | $297 | $2,856 | −$2,559 |
| Month 24 | $396 | $3,648 | −$3,252 |
| Month 30 | $495 | $4,440 | −$3,945 |
| Month 36 | $594 | $5,232 | −$4,638 |
Assumptions you can change
Self-hosting Uptime Kuma usually means one small container and a database. Hours are for one engineer; the server cost is a typical cloud VPS with backups and grows with the number of people using it.
Not included: paid editions or features of Uptime Kuma (see What's free?), large data migrations, and compliance work. All amounts in US dollars at list price; your negotiated price may differ.
Health score: 83/100
Activity45% weight
100/100
- Last commit today (100/100).
- 1359 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 24 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor30% weight
63/100
- Top contributor wrote 53% of the last 80 commits (past 12 months).
- 32 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness25% weight
75/100
- 85% of all issues are closed (736 open, 4276 closed) (92/100).
- 19 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (63/100).
Score v2. How the health score works.
License
MIT License · Open source (permissive)
OSI-approved license with few conditions beyond keeping the copyright notice.
Detected by GitHub as MIT.
What's free?
Enterprise features many open-core projects keep for paid plans.
| Feature | Self-hosted, free? |
|---|---|
| SSO (SAML) | Unknown |
| SSO (OIDC) | Unknown |
| SCIM provisioning | Unknown |
| Audit logs | Unknown |
| Role-based access control | Unknown |
| Multi-tenancy | Unknown |
We haven't verified which of these features are free for this project yet.
GitHub metrics
| Stars | 92k | Forks | 8.5k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | today | Commits, 12 months | 1.4k |
| Releases, 12 months | 24 | Last release | 21 days ago |
| Contributors | 399 | Active authors | 32 in last 80 commits |
| Open issues | 736 | Closed issues | 4.3k |
Funding: github · open collective
Snapshot from 2026-10-08.