Freshping is gone. Freshworks shut the service down on March 6, 2026, and permanently deleted remaining customer data after a 90-day retention window, per the official Freshping deprecation FAQ. The best replacement depends on what you monitor. For generic URL uptime on a free tier, UptimeRobot is the closest like-for-like match. For self-hosting, Uptime Kuma. If you run an online store, StatusBird monitors the third-party services your revenue depends on, which is the layer URL pingers cannot see.
What happened to Freshping?
Freshworks discontinued Freshping as part of a portfolio simplification to focus on Freshdesk and Freshservice. Free accounts were disabled on March 6, 2026, paid subscriptions stopped renewing, and per the deprecation FAQ, customer data was retained for 90 days after shutdown and then permanently deleted, which put the deletion date in early June 2026. Freshping had been one of the most popular free uptime monitors; Notifier's migration guide notes that more than 20,000 businesses relied on it. All of them needed a new monitor this year.
What are the best Freshping alternatives in 2026?
Here are six worth shortlisting, with pricing as published on each vendor's site in July 2026:
| Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| UptimeRobot | 50 monitors, 5-min checks | $9/mo (annual) | Generic URL monitoring on a big free tier |
| Better Stack | 10 monitors, 1 status page | $29/mo (annual) | Teams wanting monitoring plus incident management |
| Pulsetic | Free plan available | $9/mo | Uptime plus built-in status pages, closest to Freshping's feel |
| StatusCake | 10 monitors, 5-min checks | £14.99/mo | Simple setup, UK-based option |
| Uptime Kuma | Free forever (self-hosted) | Your server costs | Developers who want full control |
| StatusBird | 3 services | $29/mo | E-commerce stores monitoring their third-party stack |
UptimeRobot: the strongest free like-for-like replacement
UptimeRobot's free plan includes 50 monitors at 5-minute check intervals, which is the most generous free tier among the mainstream hosted options and the closest match to what Freshping's free plan offered. Paid plans start at $9/month billed annually (Solo) and move checks to 60-second intervals, per UptimeRobot's pricing page. If you monitored a pile of URLs on Freshping for free, start here. See also StatusBird vs UptimeRobot for how the two differ.
Better Stack: monitoring plus incident management
Better Stack bundles uptime monitoring with on-call scheduling, incident management, and polished status pages. The free plan covers 10 monitors and one status page, and paid plans start at $29/month billed annually, per Better Stack's pricing page. It is a strong pick for engineering teams that outgrew Freshping's simplicity. For a solo store owner it can be more machinery than the job needs; see StatusBird vs Better Stack.
Pulsetic: uptime and status pages in one
Pulsetic pairs uptime monitoring with built-in public status pages, which was the combination people liked most about Freshping. It offers a free plan, with paid plans starting at $9/month, per Pulsetic's pricing page. If a customer-facing status page is your main requirement, it belongs on your shortlist.
StatusCake: simple hosted monitoring
StatusCake's free plan includes 10 uptime monitors at 5-minute intervals; the Superior plan at £14.99/month raises that to 100 monitors with 1-minute checks, per StatusCake's pricing page. It covers uptime, SSL, and domain checks in a straightforward interface.
Uptime Kuma: the self-hosted option
Uptime Kuma is a free, open-source, self-hosted monitor (MIT license) with nearly 89,000 stars on GitHub. It supports HTTP(S), TCP, ping, and DNS checks, sends notifications through more than 90 services, and includes status pages. The tradeoff is that you run it yourself: it needs a server, updates, and its own monitoring. Nothing beats it on price if you are comfortable with that.
StatusBird: for stores, a different layer entirely
Every tool above answers one question: is my URL up? If you run an online store, that is rarely the question that costs you money. Your storefront can be perfectly up while checkout is broken because Stripe is down, emails are silently failing because Klaviyo is degraded, or labels will not print because ShipStation is having an incident. StatusBird monitors the status of 84 third-party services e-commerce stores depend on, checking each every 2 minutes, plus your own storefront, and alerts you by SMS, email, Slack, Teams, or Discord with the specific action to take. Free covers 3 services; Pro is $29/month for all 84. The StatusBird vs Freshping comparison covers the differences in detail.
Which Freshping alternative should you pick?
- You monitored many URLs for free: UptimeRobot. Its 50-monitor free tier is the strongest direct replacement.
- You need on-call and incident workflows: Better Stack.
- You mainly want a public status page: Pulsetic.
- You want to self-host and pay nothing: Uptime Kuma.
- You run an online store: StatusBird for the third-party stack that actually breaks, optionally alongside a free URL monitor. The typical Shopify store depends on 15 or more external services, and in StatusBird's 180-day infrastructure report, 25% of monitored services had at least one major incident.
What should you set up in your new monitor?
One hard lesson from the shutdown: if you did not export your Freshping data during the 90-day retention window, it is gone, so every tool on this list starts you from zero history. Set the new one up properly on day one:
- Recreate every monitor you had in Freshping, then add the ones you always meant to: checkout URL, cart, key landing pages, not just the homepage.
- Wire up real alert channels. Email alerts get buried. SMS or Slack is what actually interrupts you during an outage.
- Add the layer Freshping never covered. If you sell online, monitor the status of your payment processor, email platform, and shipping software, because those fail more often than your storefront URL does.
- Test an alert end to end before you trust the setup. Trigger a check failure on purpose and confirm the notification arrives where you expect.
Whatever you choose, migrate before you need it. Freshping's shutdown proved that monitoring history disappears when a vendor exits; your outage response should not depend on a tool that might not be there. Start monitoring your store's stack free with StatusBird: 3 services, no credit card required.