UpDog
A watchdog for your websites.
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- Hosted for you: all the Kuma power, zero self-hosting or babysitting servers.
- Monitor almost anything: websites, APIs, ports, keyword/content checks, SSL/TLS certs, cron jobs/heartbeats, and more.
- Team-ready: multi-user orgs and roles out of the box.
- Public status pages: branded pages with uptime + response-time charts.
- Instant alerts: email and SMS built-in, plus integrations like Slack/Teams/Discord/PagerDuty via config.
UpDog is a hosted uptime monitoring service with status pages and multi-channel alerts.
- for
- Teams and solo developers who need website, API and service monitoring.
- pricing
- freemium
Key features
- Website & API monitoring — Checks URLs, APIs and ports continuously and alerts on failures.
- SSL & DNS checks — Monitors certificate expiry and DNS record changes.
- Cron & heartbeat monitoring — Tracks scheduled jobs and background tasks without agents.
- Public status pages — Creates branded status pages with uptime and response-time charts.
- Multi-channel alerts — Sends alerts via email, SMS (paid), Slack, Discord, Teams, PagerDuty, Telegram and webhooks.
- Team collaboration — Shared organization, role-based invites and multiple user seats per plan.
Use cases
- Detect website downtime before customers notice.
- Get early warnings for SSL certificate expiration.
- Monitor background cron jobs and receive instant alerts on failures.
- Provide customers a public status page to reduce support tickets.
UpDog vs alternatives
 UpDog |  Better Stack |  Datadog |  Grafana |  Pulsetic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Hosted uptime monitoring with status pages | Uptime + incident management | Comprehensive monitoring | Dashboard-centric observability | High-frequency website checks |
| Pricing | Freemium | Subscription | Subscription | Subscription | Free |
| DevHunt upvotes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162 |
| Launched | Jan 2026 | — | — | — | Jan 2024 |
- UpDog vs Better Stack: Better Stack adds incident tracking and log aggregation beyond uptime monitoring.
- UpDog vs Datadog: Datadog is a full-stack observability platform, not a dedicated hosted uptime service.
- UpDog vs Grafana: Grafana provides open-source dashboards; UpDog offers hosted monitoring with built-in alerts and status pages.
- UpDog vs Pulsetic: Pulsetic focuses on ultra-fast checks (30 s) from many locations, whereas UpDog offers minute-level checks with team features.
UpDog FAQ
Is the free plan really free?+
Yes. The Puppy plan provides 3 monitors, 1 status page and email alerts forever with no credit card required.
What counts as a monitor?+
A monitor is a single check of a URL, API endpoint, hostname/port, DNS record, SSL certificate or cron job heartbeat.
How fast will I know when something is down?+
Checks run every 5 minutes on the free plan, every 3 minutes on WatchDog and every minute on BigDog, with immediate alerts on failure.
Which alert channels are supported?+
Email on all plans; SMS on paid plans; Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Telegram, Splunk and generic webhooks on every plan.
Can my whole team use it?+
Yes. Organizations can invite teammates with viewer, editor or admin roles; WatchDog includes 3 seats, BigDog includes 10.
Summarized by DevHunt from updog.watch · Oct 7, 2026. Details may change; check the official site.
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