The reliability of managed monitoring without the maintenance burden.
| Feature | Pingura | Uptime Kuma |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free / $9 mo | Free (self-hosted) |
| Hosting | Fully managed (cloud) | Self-hosted (you maintain) |
| Setup time | Minutes | Requires server setup + Docker |
| Monitor types | HTTP, Keyword, TCP, UDP, DNS, Ping, databases, email, SSH, and more (17 types) | HTTP, TCP, DNS, Ping, and more |
| SSL monitoring | ✔ (expiry tracking) | ✔ (cert info display) |
| Domain expiration | ✔ | — |
| Heartbeat monitoring | ✔ | ✔ |
| Server metrics | ✔ (Professional+) | — |
| Status pages | ✔ (managed, with subscribers) | ✔ (basic, self-hosted) |
| Status page subscribers | Up to 10,000 | — |
| Incident management | ✔ (Starter+) | — |
| Team collaboration | ✔ (up to 25 members) | — (single user) |
| Alert channels | Email, SMS, Slack, Teams, Push, Webhook | 90+ notification services |
| Private probes | ✔ (managed network) | — (your server only) |
| SLA guarantee | 99.9% (Business) | Depends on your infrastructure |
| Data retention | Up to 2 years | Limited by your database |
Pingura is fully managed — no servers to patch, no databases to back up, no Docker containers to restart at 3 AM.
Invite up to 25 team members with role-based access. Uptime Kuma is designed for single-user operation.
Offer status pages with email/SMS subscriber notifications. Uptime Kuma's status pages have no subscriber management.
Pingura's Business plan includes a 99.9% SLA. With self-hosted Uptime Kuma, uptime depends entirely on your infrastructure.
Uptime Kuma is excellent self-hosted software, but it is not free in practice — you pay in hosting, upgrades, and the reliability of the box it runs on. A self-hosted monitor that goes down with your infrastructure cannot alert you that your infrastructure went down. Pingura is fully managed, monitors from five external regions, and carries a 99.9% SLA on Business.
Not without running and maintaining a separate instance in each region yourself. Pingura checks from five global regions — US East, US West, EU Frankfurt, EU London, and Asia Pacific Singapore — as standard.
Yes. Pingura includes team members with role-based access from Starter upward, plus managed status pages with subscriber notifications. Uptime Kuma is single-user by design.
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