Freshping shut down. Here's where to go next.

Freshping is gone. Freshworks pulled the plug on March 6, 2026. If you were one of the people using it, you already got the email in January.

The short version: Freshworks "evaluated their business priorities" and decided Freshping wasn't part of their plan going forward. No replacement product, no migration partner, just "explore alternative monitoring solutions" and a link to export your data.

This is the same Freshping that froze new signups in mid-2023, said they were "revamping the product," and then went quiet for two and a half years before finally admitting it was dead. 660 layoffs at Freshworks in November 2024 should have been the signal.

If you haven't migrated yet, you have until roughly June 2026 before your data gets permanently deleted (90 days after shutdown for free accounts).

Here's what to move to, depending on what you actually need.

What you're losing

Freshping's free tier was genuinely generous. It's worth listing what you had so you can compare properly:

• 50 monitors at 1-minute check intervals
• 5 public status pages with custom domain support
• 10 global monitoring locations
• HTTP/HTTPS, ping, TCP, UDP, DNS, WebSocket checks
• Apdex reporting and outage history
• Slack, email, and Twilio (SMS) integrations
• 30 multi-user logins

That's a lot for free. No tool on the market today matches all of that at zero cost. So the honest answer is: you'll have to make tradeoffs no matter where you go.

The alternatives

UptimeRobot (closest match on paper)

UptimeRobot has the same 50-monitor free tier that made Freshping attractive. That's where the similarity ends.

UptimeRobot's free checks run every 5 minutes, not every 1 minute like Freshping. And since December 2024, UptimeRobot's free plan is restricted to non-commercial use. Personal projects, hobby sites, open-source, non-profits only. If you're monitoring anything that generates revenue, you need a paid plan.

Their Solo plan is $7/month for 10 monitors at 60-second intervals. The Team plan is $29/month for 100 monitors. Both allow commercial use.

Pick this if: You only need free monitoring for personal/hobby projects and the 5-minute interval is fine.

Skip this if: You were using Freshping for business sites. The free tier won't work for commercial use anymore.

Better Stack

Better Stack gives you 10 free monitors at 3-minute intervals with Slack and email alerts. Unlimited team members on the free plan.

It goes well beyond basic uptime monitoring. Incident management, on-call scheduling, status pages, and log management are all built in. If you were only using Freshping for uptime checks, Better Stack is overkill. If you've been wanting to consolidate tools, it's worth a look.

Paid plans start at $29/month per responder, plus add-ons for extra monitors. The pricing gets complex.

Pick this if: You want monitoring, incident management, and on-call in one platform and don't mind paying for it.

Skip this if: You just want simple uptime checks. The complexity and price aren't worth it.

StatusCake

StatusCake gives you 10 free monitors at 5-minute intervals, plus 1 page speed monitor, 1 domain monitor, and 1 SSL monitor included. Paid plans start around EUR 17/month for 100 monitors at 1-minute intervals.

They also have a Terraform provider (8.5M+ installs) which is useful if you're managing infrastructure as code.

Pick this if: You want free monitoring for a business site with SSL and domain monitoring included. Good value in Europe.

Skip this if: You need more than 10 free monitors. The jump to paid is significant.

Uptime Kuma (self-hosted)

If you're comfortable running your own server, Uptime Kuma is free, open source, and has no restrictions. Unlimited monitors. 20-second check intervals. Over 90 notification channels. Multiple status pages. 84,900+ GitHub stars.

It supports more check types than Freshping did: HTTP(S), TCP, DNS, ping, WebSocket, Docker containers, and Steam game servers.

The tradeoff: you host it yourself. You need a server that stays up so it can tell you when your other servers go down. No high availability or clustering built in.

Pick this if: You're a developer or sysadmin, you have a server available, and you want zero recurring costs with full control.

Skip this if: You don't want to manage infrastructure. The whole point of hosted monitoring is not having to worry about it.

Monit247

This is the tool I'm building, so take this with whatever grain of salt you want.

Monit247's free tier is smaller than Freshping's was: 5 monitors at 5-minute intervals, 1 region, email alerts. I won't pretend that matches what you had.

What Monit247 does differently is monitor types. 7 in total: HTTP/HTTPS, SSL certificates, DNS records, TCP ports, heartbeat (dead man's switch for cron jobs), domain expiry, and AI content monitoring. That last one is the differentiator. No other uptime monitoring tool scans your live pages for harmful content (hate speech, harassment, violence, and 8 other categories) using AI classification.

If you were using Freshping to monitor business sites and you also have user-generated content, AI chatbots, or compliance obligations around content safety, Monit247 covers ground that none of the other alternatives touch.

Paid plans: $9/month (15 monitors, 1-minute checks), $29/month (50 monitors, 10-second checks), $79/month (200 monitors, 5-second checks).

Pick this if: You want comprehensive monitoring (7 types) including content safety. Especially relevant if you run AI-powered features or UGC platforms.

Skip this if: You need 50+ free monitors. The free tier is too small for that.

How to export your Freshping data

If you haven't done this yet, do it now. Your data gets deleted 90 days after the shutdown (roughly June 2026 for free accounts).

1. Log into your Freshping account (if still accessible)
2. Request data export as an account admin
3. You'll get XML files (monitor configs, status pages, integrations) and CSV files (incidents, uptime data, user details)
4. Download links arrive within 48 hours and stay active for 60 days
5. The Freshping Public API may also still work for pulling configurations programmatically

Contact [email protected] if you run into issues.

Which one replaces Freshping's free tier?

None of them. Not fully.

Freshping gave you 50 monitors at 1-minute intervals for free. That combination doesn't exist anymore. Here's the closest you can get:

What you need	Best free option
Most free monitors (personal use)	UptimeRobot (50 monitors, 5-min, non-commercial only)
Most free monitors (commercial use)	StatusCake or Better Stack (10 monitors each)
Fastest free checks	Uptime Kuma (20-second, self-hosted)
Free status pages	Better Stack or Uptime Kuma
Free SSL/domain monitoring	StatusCake (1 each on free) or Monit247 (included in all plans)
Zero cost, no limits	Uptime Kuma (self-hosted)

If your monitoring needs have grown beyond what a free tier covers, Freshping shutting down might be the push to evaluate paid options properly. The $7-9/month range (UptimeRobot Solo or Monit247 Starter) gets you 10-15 monitors with 1-minute checks. For most small businesses, that's enough.

If you've already migrated from Freshping and found something good, I'd be interested to hear what you picked and why.