Best Uptime & monitoring for developers
We list 12 Uptime & monitoring tools, ranked by community votes and market presence (how often other tools are positioned as alternatives to them). Top picks right now: Better Stack, Datadog, Grafana Cloud.
| # | Tool | Pricing | Starts at | Best for | Platforms | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Better Stack Uptime, incident management and logs | Freemium | $30/mo | Developers | web | 0 |
| 2 | Datadog Cloud monitoring and security platform | Freemium | $18/mo | Enterprise, Developers | web | 0 |
| 3 | Grafana Cloud Open-source observability dashboards | Freemium | $19/mo | Developers, Enterprise | web | 0 |
| 4 | Sentry Error and performance monitoring | Freemium | $29/mo | Developers | web | 0 |
| 5 | New Relic Full-stack observability with a free 100 GB tier | Freemium | $10/mo | Enterprise, Developers | web | 0 |
| 6 | Uptime Kuma Self-hosted uptime monitoring | Open source | $0 | Developers | web | 0 |
| 7 | Checkly Synthetic monitoring as code with Playwright | Freemium | $24/mo | Developers | web | 0 |
| 8 | Dynatrace AI-driven observability and app security for large cloud estates | Paid | — | Enterprise, Developers | web | 0 |
| 9 | Instatus Fast, affordable status pages | Freemium | $20/mo | Small businesses, Developers | web | 0 |
| 10 | openstatus Open-source status page and monitoring | Open source | $30/mo | Developers | web | 0 |
| 11 | PagerDuty On-call scheduling, alerting and incident response for ops teams | Freemium | $25/mo | Developers, Enterprise, Small businesses | web, ios, android | 0 |
| 12 | UptimeRobot Uptime, SSL and cron monitoring with status pages and a free tier | Freemium | $10/mo | Developers, Small businesses, Agencies | web, ios, android | 0 |
All 12 tools
8.Dynatrace
▲ 0AI-driven observability and app security for large cloud estates
PaidEnterpriseDevelopers11.PagerDuty
▲ 0On-call scheduling, alerting and incident response for ops teams
Freemium · $25DevelopersEnterpriseUptime, SSL and cron monitoring with status pages and a free tier
Freemium · $10DevelopersSmall businesses