Healthchecks.io
Latvia
EU
Open Source
Self-Hostable
Healthchecks.io is a monitoring service for cron jobs, backups and other scheduled tasks. It is run by the Latvian company SIA Monkey See Monkey Do, was founded in 2015 and is open...
European Alternatives to Pingdom
Oh Dear
Belgium
EU
Oh Dear is a website monitoring service from Belgium. It was started in 2018 by the developer Freek Van der Herten and the sysadmin Mattias Geniar and is operated by Immutable network...
StatusCake
United Kingdom
StatusCake is a website monitoring service from the United Kingdom, operated by TrafficCake Limited from Grays in Essex. The company was founded in 2012 and says it has 200,000 users worldwide. As...
UptimeRobot
Slovak Republic
EU
UptimeRobot is an uptime monitoring service operated by UptimeRobot s. r. o. in Bratislava, Slovakia. The service has belonged to the Czech/Slovak company itrinity since 2019. It checks websites, APIs and servers...
Uptrends
Netherlands
EU
Uptrends is a website and API monitoring service from the Netherlands. Uptrends B.V., based in Alphen aan den Rijn, was incorporated in 2007. Since November 2020 it has been part of the...
Non-European but Open Source
The Open Source category highlights projects that, while originally developed in countries outside of Europe, allow anyone from around the world to contribute. These projects are not bound by geographic location—anyone, regardless of where they are based, can review, modify, and improve the code. The key factor is that the source code is available for anyone to examine, ensuring that the product can be independently verified and trusted, regardless of its origin. By featuring open-source projects, we promote transparency, collaboration, and innovation on a global scale.
Uptime Kuma
Hong Kong
Open Source
Self-Hostable
Uptime Kuma is a free, self-hosted monitoring tool. It is open source under the MIT license and has more than 90,000 stars on GitHub, which makes it the most common answer to...
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Submit SuggestionEuropean alternatives to Pingdom for website uptime monitoring include UptimeRobot (Slovakia), Oh Dear (Belgium), StatusCake (United Kingdom) and Uptrends (Netherlands), plus the open source tools Healthchecks.io and Uptime Kuma. Pingdom is operated by SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC in Austin, Texas, and offers uptime monitoring, page speed analysis, transaction monitoring, real user monitoring and public status pages. Teams that want their monitoring from a European provider can compare the options on this page.
What Pingdom offers
According to Pingdom, its uptime monitoring checks sites from more than 100 locations worldwide. Synthetic and transaction monitoring simulates visitor actions such as logins, search and checkout, and real user monitoring measures how visitors actually experience a site. New users get a 30-day free trial.
European uptime monitoring services in the directory
- UptimeRobot (Slovakia): the widest feature list of the simple tools, with a free plan of 50 monitors and 5-minute checks. Its strength is price, its weakness is that faster checks and SMS alerts cost extra.
- Oh Dear (Belgium): checks uptime, certificates, broken links, mixed content and cron jobs, with data stored in Belgium. It has no free plan.
- StatusCake (United Kingdom): uptime, page speed, domain and SSL checks from 43 locations. The UK is outside the EU.
- Uptrends (Netherlands): the closest match for synthetic web and API journeys from more than 230 locations, aimed at professional teams.
- Healthchecks.io and Uptime Kuma: open source options for cron job monitoring and for self-hosted checks.
The category page Uptime monitoring lists all of them.
What to compare before switching
- Features in use. Check whether your setup relies on Pingdom's real user monitoring or transaction checks. Not every alternative offers both.
- Check locations. Compare where probes run and how many locations a plan includes.
- Alert channels. Email, chat and webhooks are standard, SMS and voice alerts often cost extra.
- Status pages. Public status pages and custom domains differ between plans.
- Data protection. Ask for a data processing agreement and for the location of stored check data.
FAQ
Is there a free alternative to Pingdom?
UptimeRobot has a free plan, Healthchecks.io monitors 20 cron jobs for free, and Uptime Kuma is free software that you host yourself.
Is there a European Pingdom alternative with synthetic monitoring?
Uptrends is built around synthetic web and API journeys. Oh Dear and StatusCake cover simpler website checks.