OneUptime Reviews

Flexible, open source, self-hosted option with all the features, fastest response from the devs, and bug fixes

Few small bugs here and there, nothing critical tho.

Multiple status pages with private access and user management, rich api

Easy to use, pleasant UI, outstanding support, extremely fast responses and bug fixes.

Encountered a few bugs with various features, the product feels like it's still in early access phase, hiwever this makes it flexible to integration of new features

Centralizing communication around platform incidents

Aligning information around incidents and avoiding miscommunication

Prviding timely updates and confirmation of resolution

I was tired of paying for UptimeRobot, as their yearly payment was still to much as I used it purely for monitoring my homelab (using the heartbeat). Since OneUptime is Open Source Software, I worked with the community to introduce heartbeat checks into OneUptime, and made them free as part as their OSS and Hosted model.

Their customer support is a little tricky as a homelabber I often do not use Slack to communicate with others. I find myself using Github Discussions or Discord. Still, any question asked is often answered within a day.

As of writing this, they are just now finializing their helm-chart to make deploying OneUptime locally to your own Kubernetes Cluster easier.

OneUptime has a lot of moving parts. If you have an issue hosting it yourself, you may find yourself delving into the configurations of other people or the code to try and see why its not working. This is usually not a problem for most people, but if you're hosting this yourself you might want some experience to back yourself up.

OneUptime solves the issue of having to check to see if your site is reachable. It can check everything from ensuring a transit proxy is reachable to ensuring a port is accepting connections.

As a homelabber, I want to make sure that my cloudflare tunnels are constantly open and reaching my internal nginx service. OneUptime also ensures that my NAS and Kubernetes clusters are still alive by ensuring that they send a heartbeat every x seconds/minutes and notifies me if they dont.

- Regroup many features in one service instead of depending on multiple providers;

- Developpers are very responsive and helpful;

- OpenSource;

- Easy to use;

- Maturity is not there yet, software under very active development but things are taking place and moving forward in an interesting way.

Primary use is monitoring / status page for partners and users. We are exploring the incident management tools at the moment. Support is very accessible.