Uptime Kuma vs Gatus
Ping a service and tell you when it stops answering.
The pick: Uptime Kuma
Uptime Kuma is the one to hand to a person. Gatus is the one to commit to a config file.
The facts
| Fact | Uptime Kuma | Gatus |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Effort | a container | a container |
| Activity | active | active |
| Repository | github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma | github.com/TwiN/gatus |
Pick Uptime Kuma if
Pick Uptime Kuma for status pages and notifications you can set up by clicking.
Pick Gatus if
Pick Gatus when the checks belong in version control with everything else.
What each one costs you
- Uptime KumaSingle point of failure: if the box dies, the monitor dies with it.
- GatusConfigured by YAML, which is great until you want to click something.
The full entry for both lives under Instead of UptimeRobot, judged swap it.