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UptimeRobot

Widely used uptime monitoring with simple public status pages.

Screenshot of the UptimeRobot home page
UptimeRobot home page. Captured 2026-07-31 from the live page.

Where UptimeRobot fits

UptimeRobot is probably the most widely deployed uptime monitor on the internet, largely on the strength of a free tier that is genuinely usable rather than a trial. Status pages come along with it. They are deliberately plain, which is fine when the page exists to answer 'is it down' and limiting when it needs to carry a brand.

Best for

Side projects and small teams that need monitoring first and a status page second.

Watch out for

Status page branding and audience segmentation are minimal; this is not the tool if the page is customer-facing marketing surface.

UptimeRobot pricing

Pricing

Not yet verified. We have not independently confirmed this against the vendor since the last pricing change. Check the vendor page before relying on it.

View UptimeRobot pricing on the vendor site

UptimeRobot features

Verified as supported

  • Custom domain
  • Scheduled maintenance
  • Email subscribers
  • Slack notifications
  • Webhooks
  • Private status pages
  • Built-in uptime monitoring
  • Public API

Verified as not supported

  • Self-hostable
Feature comparison
FeatureUptimeRobot
Custom domainServe the status page on your own domain, e.g. status.example.com.Yes
Remove vendor brandingWhether the vendor's own branding can be removed from the public page.Not verified
Per-component statusBreak the page into individual services or components with independent states.Not verified
Scheduled maintenanceAnnounce planned windows in advance and notify subscribers.Yes
Email subscribersLet customers subscribe to incident updates by email.Yes
SMS notificationsDeliver incident updates over SMS.Not verified
Slack notificationsPush incident updates into a Slack workspace.Yes
WebhooksFire an HTTP callback when incident state changes.Yes
RSS / Atom feedMachine-readable incident feed.Not verified
Embeddable widgetDrop a live status badge or banner into your own app.Not verified
Private status pagesRestrict the page to authenticated or invited viewers.Yes
Audience-specific pagesShow different components to different customer segments.Not verified
Built-in uptime monitoringThe tool can detect outages itself, rather than only displaying states you set manually.Yes
Public APICreate and update incidents programmatically.Yes
SSO / SAMLSingle sign-on for your internal team members.Not verified
Self-hostableSource available and deployable on your own infrastructure.No

Yes supported · No not supported · not yet verified by us (we show a dash rather than guessing).

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