As a single maker, when your app/website goes down how do you get notified?

Question

I'm a single/solo maker & interested in the tools fellow PH'ers use to notify them it their app/website goes down, without paying crazy fees. I use PagerDuty at work but can't justify the price for a side project.

Ken Wallace · Accepted Answer

I rely on Hyperping to let me know if my site is up and how performant it is. Works great, and the price is fair!

Matt Harney · Answer

Great free plan.

Daniel Stefanovic · Answer

Uptime Robot offers 5-minute checks and 50 monitors for free 👌

Brennon Denny · Answer

Free, easy to use, and does what it is suppose to.

Arjun Rajkumar · Answer

Get an email notification if anything breaks... If a customer somehow manages to break the app, I get an email notification. THink they have a free plan..

Answer

Simple solution to this common problem. Works amazingly well and FREE.

Sander Visser · Answer

Hyperping is great! It sends a report every week to keep me updated about the performance of my sites and notifies me of downtime, like yesterday with Netlify's outage.

Ben Howdle · Answer

It's just...great.

Armin Nikdel · Answer

I was like you, needed a reliable uptime monitoring tool and was using monitis, but they suddenly increased their pricing. I made mine, Pingmeter. Let me know if you signup to get some PH benefits from me on your account ;)

Bruno Paulino · Answer

It is super reliable and the free version allows you to have up to 50 monitors. they can notify you in pretty much all services out there like Slack, Telegram, SMS and the list goes on and on. Have been using it for the past years and had no issues at all.

Neil Chalk · Answer

Uptime robot is great, once you get the hang of it easy to setup and simple Slack integration. In the free plan you can even have a host name in your domain

Peter van Teeseling · Answer

Multiple sites and notification options (ie email, sms etc) - very affordable!

Alex Lobanov · Answer

In case if you want to get notified about any downtime - your tool should cover all your needs.
Including Public Status Pages, SSL monitoring, different notification options

Sinan Yucel · Answer

Great service, and can't beat free! If a check every 5mins is not enough, they have options that check more frequently. Also, they can notify you however you want; via e-mail, SMS, Twitter, Slack, HipChat, Telegram, push, web-hooks...

James Barnes · Answer

Glad you like the free plan Matt - it's free for life.  We're always looking at how we can improve things for our free customers as well, such as the recent introduction of a free page speed test :)

Chillar Anand · Answer

I use uptime robot to monitor several sites. Free upto 50 sites.

Jim Zhou · Answer

Simple, free, has Slack integration, unlimited URLs, also does server monitoring, checks from 2 zones (AWS I reckon), and can monitor content

Brett Hellman · Answer

I've used pingdom for my last 3 startups... It works fine. It's not a product I love but a product that gets the job done.

Primer · Answer

Pingdom rules.