Uptimeify vs. Uptime Kuma
Uptime Kuma is free, open source and, with more than 90,000 GitHub stars, one of the most popular self-hosted monitoring tools. For an agency, though, self-hosting also means the server, updates and backups are on you, and your clients get no login of their own. Uptimeify takes the operations off your plate, with client logins and permanently free status pages under your brand.
For agencies and MSPs
- No server, no updates, no backups on your side
- A login for every client, with data kept separate
- Clients subscribe by email, Slack, Teams or webhook
- Private status pages with login, SSO or password
- Monthly PDF reports under your brand
For teams that self-host
- Free, while server, updates and backups are yours to handle
- No user management, so no client logins
- RSS feed, but no email, Slack or Teams subscriptions
- Status pages are public, password protection is not planned
- No PDF reports, reporting only through Grafana
As of November 2026. Details on Uptime Kuma are based on its public GitHub repository, wiki and release notes (version 2.5.9) and may change. If something is wrong, we are glad to hear about it.
In short
Uptime Kuma is built for people who want their monitoring in their own hands. One Docker command and it runs on your server, with more than 90 notification services and status pages on your own domain. For your own infrastructure, that is a strong choice.
Once you look after client sites, the tool turns into an operations job. You install the updates, ten releases between August and October 2026 alone, three of them with security fixes. Your clients get no login of their own, there are no email subscriptions, and a status page is always public.
Uptimeify starts right there: a status page per client, permanently free and under your brand, plus monitoring with client logins and reports when you need it. What self-hosting a status page really costs is worked out in our article Status page: open source vs. white-label SaaS.
Feature by feature
As of November 2026. Details on Uptime Kuma are based on publicly available information and may change. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Where Uptimeify leads
Three things that stay with you when you self-host, and that we solved for your agency.
No server for you to maintain. Uptime Kuma shipped ten releases between August 1 and October 31, 2026, three of them with security fixes. On Uptimeify, updates and backups run on our side, so your time goes into client projects, not maintenance windows.
A login of their own for every client. User management has been an open request in Uptime Kuma's GitHub tracker since July 2021. On Uptimeify, each client sits in their own sub-account with a read-only login, so they see their numbers without touching your setup.
Status pages your clients can subscribe to. Uptime Kuma offers an RSS feed on the status page, email subscriptions have been an open request since 2021, and the project closed password protection as not planned. On Uptimeify, visitors subscribe by email, Slack, Teams or webhook, per component, and you protect private pages with login, SSO or password.
Where Uptime Kuma wins
No tool wins everywhere. Three points where Uptime Kuma is the better choice.
Free and open source. Uptime Kuma is MIT licensed, has more than 90,000 GitHub stars and over 200 million Docker pulls. You pay nothing for the software and can read every line.
Sheer breadth. More than 90 notification services, monitor types down to Docker containers and Steam game servers, and check intervals from 20 seconds.
Full control. You choose the server, the location and how the data is kept. For your own infrastructure, that is often exactly right.
Frequently asked questions
The software is free, running it is not. When you self-host, you take care of the server, updates, backups of the data directory and HTTPS through your web server. Between August and October 2026 alone, there were ten releases, three of them with security fixes. On Uptimeify, status pages are permanently free, monitoring costs from €29 a month for 10 monitors excl. VAT, and you can try it for 14 days.
Yes, by hand. There is no automatic import from Uptime Kuma at the moment. You create monitors in the dashboard or via the REST API, rebuild your status pages and move the domain with a TXT record and a CNAME. Uptime Kuma can keep running until everything is in place.
Uptimeify's core infrastructure is spread across several providers and locations in the EU, exclusively with the providers listed on our subprocessors page, and backups are kept in Germany. The data processing agreement is ready to sign. That lets you show your client's procurement exactly who processes the data.
Nothing. The entire client dashboard runs under your brand, with client logins, status pages and reports. Logo, colors and domain are yours, reports go out through your own SMTP, and the status page does not name Uptimeify. The optional "Powered by" line shows your own product name, and you can switch it off.
Yes. Uptime Kuma can create multiple status pages and map each one to its own domain, and you can adjust logo, CSS and footer. All pages sit behind one shared dashboard without client logins, though, subscriptions run through RSS only, and every page is public.
Not built in. The project closed the request for PDF reports as not planned in April 2025 and pointed to Grafana through the Prometheus interface. On Uptimeify, monthly PDF reports with your logo go to your clients automatically.
For the technical evaluator
From Uptime Kuma to status pages without a server to run
Create the first status page for a client, connect their domain and check it all in the preview. Try the monitoring behind it when you are ready.