Idea checked
an uptime monitoring tool
The uptime monitoring market is crowded, but there is still room for a simpler, cheaper, or more specialized product
Confidence: high — There is a lot of real data here: 12 named open-source projects, 10 still active, 40 first-hand complaints, 4 unsolved questions, 1 explicit want, and several high-star competitors with recent pushes.
- hackernews 30
- github 20
- githubissues 20
- discourse 20
- intent 1
- stackexchange 4
- registries 16
- tavily 8
- devto 10
Interest over time From data
Hacker News stories mentioning uptime monitoring synthetic (topic read as “uptime monitoring”), by year — 5 in total, currently falling.
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
- 2025
- 2026
This counts discussion on Hacker News, not global search demand. For developer tooling the two move together; for a local service business they do not.
Who is already building this From data
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Uptime Kuma is the biggest open-source player found here: 89,716 stars and still maintained, with a push on 2026-08-02.
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Upptime is also very large, with 17,107 stars and still maintained; it last pushed on 2026-08-02.
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Gatus has 11,674 stars and is still maintained, last pushed on 2026-08-02.
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Checkmate has 10,400 stars and is still maintained, last pushed on 2026-07-31.
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OpenStatus has 8,932 stars and is still maintained, last pushed on 2026-08-01.
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HertzBeat has 7,345 stars and is still maintained, last pushed on 2026-08-02.
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Statping is a dead competitor here: 7,294 stars, but its last push was 2024-07-05 and it is marked stale.
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UptimeFlare has 3,704 stars and is still maintained, last pushed on 2026-06-01.
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fzaninotto/uptime is another dead competitor: 3,591 stars, last pushed on 2021-10-01 and marked stale.
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There are smaller active tools too, including Tianji with 3,077 stars and a last push on 2026-07-31, and CheckCle with 2,803 stars and a last push on 2026-07-17.
What people actually say From data
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"Since the SLA of the SaaS product I'm working on requires the vendor (me) to be able to provide an uptime report, I was looking into uptime monitoring and status page services." This is a direct complaint about needing reportable uptime, not just alerts.
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"Would be great if we could monitor services here, just like uptime-kuma!" This shows users wanting uptime monitoring inside another product.
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"I want to be able to see if some of my cameras are flakey, but I only care about the video steam." This is a narrow monitoring need where basic ping or HTTP checks are not enough.
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"How are people doing this atm and what is 'best practice'" This is a first-hand request for operational guidance on running uptime monitoring for a self-hosted stack.
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"I'd like to see it be easy and cheap to run at scale." This is a direct product wish for scaling cost and simplicity.
People asking to be sold to From data
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"I wish there was an uptime robot for like 25 cents a monitor a month." This is an explicit willingness-to-pay signal, but with a very low price anchor.
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"We self-host and want to make sure n8n is fully up and running 24*7" This is a live operational need, not curiosity.
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"Would be great if we could monitor services here" This is a feature request that implies someone would adopt the function if available.
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"I was looking into uptime monitoring and status page services" This shows active buying intent for a reporting-capable tool.
Where the opening is Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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The data does not show a clear gap in basic website uptime checks, status pages, or alerts; those are already covered by Uptime Kuma, Gatus, OpenStatus, Upptime, and others.
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A narrower gap appears around non-HTTP monitoring targets and domain-specific health signals, like camera video streams, where ping or HTTP checks are not enough.
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Another possible gap is cheap, simple monitoring for small operators who think existing tools are too expensive or too enterprise-heavy.
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Several requests point to reporting and evidence, such as uptime percentages, latency charts, and uptime reports, so the gap may be in better reporting rather than raw monitoring.
How big the market might be Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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This search found 12 named open-source projects, of which 10 are active and 2 are dead.
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The biggest open-source competitor found is Uptime Kuma at 89,716 stars, with Upptime at 17,107 and Gatus at 11,674.
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There were 40 first-hand complaints, 4 unsolved questions, and 1 explicit stated want across the collected signals.
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Matching discussion appeared in 7 community forums, including community.home-assistant.io, community.n8n.io, community.openai.com, discuss.elastic.co, forum.djangoproject.com, forum.rclone.org, and meta.discourse.org.
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There is also usage evidence in package registries, including @growth-labs/health with 2,535 monthly downloads and @ionhour/mcp-server with 140 monthly downloads, plus docker/elestio/uptime-kuma with 608,278 pulls.
What could go wrong Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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This market is heavily commoditized: several large, active open-source alternatives already exist, and the top one has nearly 90k stars.
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Open-source self-hosted buyers may expect a free or very cheap tool, which makes monetization hard unless the product is clearly better on reporting, scale, or a niche use case.
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A generic new uptime monitor will look interchangeable with the incumbents unless it targets a specific workflow, protocol, or reporting gap.
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Some competition is stale, but the live competition is strong and still shipping, so dead projects do not meaningfully open the market on their own.
What to do this week Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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Do not build another generic URL ping tool first; start with one niche where basic uptime tools fail, such as camera-stream checks, self-hosted stacks, or richer SLA reporting.
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If you build for small teams, test pricing against the explicit low anchor of 25 cents per monitor per month.
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Ship reporting early: uptime percentage, latency charts, and an exportable uptime report are repeatedly mentioned as reasons people care.
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Validate with users who already mention uptime-kuma, UptimeRobot, or status pages in their workflow, because those are the clearest replacement paths in the signals.
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If you want a wedge, make it easy to run at scale and cheap to operate, since that was called out directly in one active repo and echoed by several discussions.
Competitor strength From data
Counted, not judged. Only projects that expose a hard number — stars, downloads, last commit — appear here, so they stop looking identical to each other. Products with no public metrics are discussed above instead of being given a row they cannot fill.
| Project | Stars | Downloads / mo | Activity |
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| louislam/uptime-kuma | 89,716 | — | Active 2026-08-02 |
| upptime/upptime | 17,107 | — | Active 2026-08-02 |
| TwiN/gatus | 11,674 | — | Active 2026-08-02 |
| bluewave-labs/Checkmate | 10,400 | — | Active 2026-07-31 |
| openstatusHQ/openstatus | 8,932 | — | Active 2026-08-01 |
| apache/hertzbeat | 7,345 | — | Active 2026-08-02 |
| statping/statping | 7,294 | — | Dead 2024-07-05 |
| alexjustesen/speedtest-tracker | 5,866 | — | Active 2026-08-01 |
| lyc8503/UptimeFlare | 3,704 | — | Active 2026-06-01 |
| fzaninotto/uptime archived | 3,591 | — | Dead 2021-10-01 |
| msgbyte/tianji | 3,077 | — | Active 2026-07-31 |
| operacle/checkcle | 2,803 | — | Active 2026-07-17 |
- 12 open source
- 10 active
- 2 dead
- 40 first-hand complaints
- 1 stated wants
- 7 communities discussing it
Domain names From data
Checked live against the registry, built from the subject of the idea rather than the first words of the sentence. A literal check is a fact; a brandable suggestion would be noise.
- uptimemonitoring.com taken
- uptimemonitoring.io available
- uptime.com taken
- getuptime.com taken
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