A Healthchecks.io alternative with uptime too
Healthchecks.io is excellent at one thing — cron/heartbeat monitoring — and its free tier caps you at 20 checks. But it does only heartbeats, so you still need a second service to watch your websites.
Healthchecks.io
GoodPing
Heartbeat / cron monitoring
Yes (its speciality)
Yes
Website uptime monitoring
No
Yes — same dashboard
Diagnostic tools
No
14 free tools
Free checks
20
3 (25 on Pro), each can be uptime or heartbeat
Alert channels free
Many
Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, webhook
Open source / self-host
Yes
No (hosted)
Our honest take. Healthchecks.io is superb and open-source — if you only need heartbeats and want to self-host, use it. GoodPing's advantage is having uptime monitoring, heartbeats and the diagnostic tools in one place, so you are not running two services. Its free heartbeat allowance (20) is more generous than our free tier (3 monitors total).
Move your monitors in a minute
Free, no card, and commercial use is fine.