Stop SSH-ing into boxes to check if things are running. You have better things to do on a Saturday.
Self-hosting monitoring to monitor self-hosted services is recursive. Your Uptime Kuma runs on the same box as everything else. When the box goes down, your monitoring goes with it. You don't get an alert — you get silence.
I built Upwatch to fix that. 10 monitors, email alerts, and a status page — free. External checks from outside your network. Set up in 30 seconds.
Self-hosted monitoring can't alert you when the host itself is down.
If your monitoring stack lives in the same rack, the same VM, or the same Docker host as your services, it's not monitoring — it's cargo culting. External checks are the only way to close the gap.
Three steps. Under a minute.
Sign up with your email
No credit card. No phone number. No company name.
Add your endpoints
HTTP, TCP, Ping, or SSL certificate monitoring. Point it at your public IPs or domains.
Get alerted when something breaks
Before you SSH in to check. Before your family complains Jellyfin is down. Before you notice the NAS is offline.
Built for homelabbers who self-host everything except monitoring
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Home Servers
Proxmox, TrueNAS, bare metal — know when a box stops responding before you walk into the server closet
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Docker Stacks
Jellyfin, Nextcloud, Home Assistant — monitor the web UIs to catch container crashes and port conflicts
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Network Gear
Routers, switches, access points — ping checks that catch hardware failures and firmware hangs
10 Monitors
HTTP, TCP, Ping, SSL — check everything that matters
Instant Alerts
Email the moment something breaks. Not an hour later.
Status Page
Share with your household or friends who use your services.
SSL Expiry Alerts
Get warned before your cert expires and your reverse proxy starts throwing errors.
Built by someone who ran Uptime Kuma until the monitoring server went down
SRE · Solo dev · Self-funded
"I ran Uptime Kuma on my Proxmox box. Then the box crashed and I had no idea until I tried to watch something. Upwatch exists because monitoring needs to live outside the blast radius. No investors. No growth team. The free tier is permanent."
Early adopter offer
Use code EARLY at checkout
3 months of Pro — completely free
Unlimited monitors, 30-second checks, Slack/Discord alerts, custom domains
The next time your homelab goes down, would you rather get an email or find out when Plex stops working?
Start Monitoring NowFree forever. Set up in 30 seconds. No credit card.