7 best uptime monitoring tools in 2026

01

UptimeRobotBest free tier

Uptime monitoring for sites, APIs, ports and cron jobs

Checks websites, APIs, ports and cron jobs from multiple locations and alerts you when they stop responding. Monitor types run to keyword, ping, DNS and SSL expiry, and it publishes status pages.

02

Better StackBest all-in-one

Uptime monitoring and log storage with on-call attached

Uptime checks and a status page, log and trace storage, error tracking, and an on-call rota for whoever has to answer the alert.

03

PingdomBest for enterprise

Uptime and transaction checks, plus monitoring of real visitors

Two products from SolarWinds: synthetic checks that simulate visitor interaction with a site, and real user monitoring that reports what actual visitors experienced.

04

ChecklyBest as code

Uptime and Playwright monitoring you define as code

Runs uptime and Playwright browser checks against your endpoints and critical user flows, with monitors written as TypeScript, Terraform or Pulumi and deployed from the CLI alongside the app they watch.

05

StatusCakeBest all-rounder

Uptime checks from 30 countries, plus SSL and domain monitors

Runs scheduled availability checks against websites and endpoints, raising an alert through its integrations when one fails. Certificate expiry and page speed tests sit in the same account.

06

CronitorBest for cron jobs

Uptime and cron job monitoring in one dashboard

Watches cron jobs, background tasks, websites and APIs, with alerts when a job fails or never starts.

07

HyperpingBest status pages

Uptime monitoring with status pages and on-call built in

Checks HTTP endpoints, APIs, DNS and cron jobs from 18 locations, then routes failures to on-call rotas and publishes them to a branded status page.