Managed Uptime Kuma Hosting — production-ready from $15 a month
Self-hosted uptime monitoring and alerting. Deployed on your own dedicated instance in AWS, Azure, or GCP, kept patched, backed up, and monitored by ManageStacks — standard Uptime Kuma, no lock-in.
Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted uptime monitoring tool that tracks website and service availability with beautiful dashboards. ManageStacks provides managed hosting for Uptime Kuma so you can monitor your infrastructure without managing the monitor itself.
What does Uptime Kuma do, and why do teams deploy it?
Uptime Kuma is the most popular open-source uptime monitoring tool on GitHub, offering a sleek and modern interface for tracking the availability of your websites, APIs, and services. It supports HTTP, TCP, DNS, ping, and other monitoring types with configurable check intervals, and sends alerts through over 90 notification channels including Slack, Telegram, Discord, and email.
With its intuitive status pages, maintenance windows, and multi-language support, Uptime Kuma gives teams full visibility into their service health without relying on expensive SaaS platforms. Whether you are monitoring a single site or hundreds of endpoints, Uptime Kuma scales to meet your needs with minimal resource overhead.
- Monitor HTTP, TCP, DNS, ping, and gRPC endpoints
- 90+ notification integrations including Slack and Discord
- Beautiful public and private status pages
- Configurable check intervals and retry logic
- Maintenance window scheduling
- Certificate expiry and domain monitoring
Self-hosted uptime monitoring and alerting
What does managed Uptime Kuma hosting cost?
Flat per-app pricing, in your chosen AWS, Azure, or GCP region. No per-user pricing — a busy deployment costs the same as a quiet one.
Starter
Staging and internal tools. Dedicated instance, TLS, daily backups, managed upgrades.
Standard
Production workloads. Adds monitoring, staging environment, region choice, priority support.
Business
High-traffic and compliance workloads. Adds a high-availability replica and same-day support.
24×7 SRE retainer
Round-the-clock on-call across every hosted application, for teams that need a pager answered at 3am.
Self-hosting Uptime Kuma vs managed — what does it really cost?
The software is free. The engineer-hours are not.
Running it yourself
- Provision a VM, install Node.js, and run Uptime Kuma behind a reverse proxy with SSL
- Configure SQLite persistence and set up backup cron jobs for the database
- Set up notification integrations for Slack, Telegram, and email one by one
- Monitor the monitor itself — if the Uptime Kuma host goes down, you get no alerts
- Handle Node.js version upgrades and Uptime Kuma releases manually
On ManageStacks
- Subscribe through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace
- Uptime Kuma deploys with persistent storage, automated SSL, and daily backups — typically under 2 minutes
- Add HTTP, TCP, DNS, ping, and gRPC monitors through the web UI immediately
- ManageStacks monitors the monitor — your uptime tool has its own uptime guarantee
- Rolling version upgrades handled by us; notification configs and history preserved
Uptime Kuma on ManageStacks vs the alternatives
How Uptime Kuma on ManageStacks compares to SaaS and self-hosted uptime monitoring solutions.
| Uptime Kuma on ManageStacksUs | Better Stack (formerly Better Uptime) | Pingdom | Self-hosted Uptime Kuma | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Managed on your AWS, Azure, or GCP | Vendor-hosted | Vendor-hosted | You provision + operate |
| Data residency | Your cloud region | Vendor infrastructure | Vendor infrastructure | Your infrastructure |
| Pricing basis | Flat $29/mo | Per monitor tier ($29-85+/mo) | Per monitor ($10/10 monitors+) | Your compute cost |
| Monitor types | HTTP, TCP, DNS, ping, gRPC, Docker, keyword | HTTP, TCP, DNS, ping, cron, keyword | HTTP, TCP, DNS, ping | HTTP, TCP, DNS, ping, gRPC, Docker, keyword |
| Status pages | Built-in (custom domains) | Built-in | Built-in | Built-in |
| Open source | Yes (MIT) | No (proprietary) | No (proprietary) | Yes (MIT) |
Provisioning, upgrades, backups and monitoring on your team’s plate.
What does running Uptime Kuma yourself involve?
ManageStacks handles server maintenance, backups, and updates for Uptime Kuma so your monitoring tool is always online — even when the services it watches are not.
Uptime Kuma key numbers
How long from subscribing to a live instance?
Subscribe
Subscribe to ManageStacks through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace.
Provision
Uptime Kuma spins up with persistent SQLite storage, automated SSL, and reverse proxy — typically under 2 minutes.
Add monitors
Create HTTP, TCP, DNS, ping, keyword, gRPC, or Docker monitors through the web UI. Set check intervals and alert thresholds.
Configure alerts
Connect notification channels — Slack, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty, email, webhooks, and 80+ more. Set up public status pages for your users.
When is self-hosting Uptime Kuma the right answer instead?
“Managed hosting is not always the correct call.”
Self-host when a platform team already runs the infrastructure and on-call rotation to operate Uptime Kuma at genuinely low marginal cost. Self-host when compliance requires an air-gapped or on-premises deployment that no hosted option can satisfy. And self-host when the deployment depends on heavy customisation with a fast internal build-deploy loop, because an internal release process will beat any managed change process.
For everyone else — teams whose engineers have better things to do than shepherd upgrades — managed hosting is cheaper than the hours it replaces.
Which cloud should Uptime Kuma run on — AWS, Azure or GCP?
For most workloads, the choice of cloud matters less than proximity: run Uptime Kuma in the same cloud and region as the applications and data it talks to, because every request between them adds a round trip. The underlying compute performs equivalently across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
In practice, an existing cloud footprint decides it. All plans support all three clouds, and moving regions later is a scheduled migration, not a rebuild.
Deepest managed-service catalog, default when there's no existing footprint
Best fit for teams already on Microsoft 365 or Entra ID
Strongest for data/analytics-adjacent workloads
Every plan supports AWS, Azure, and GCP — region choice included.
Common questions about Uptime Kuma on ManageStacks
How many monitors can I run on ManageStacks-hosted Uptime Kuma?
There is no artificial limit on monitors. ManageStacks provisions resources based on your plan, and Uptime Kuma is lightweight enough to handle hundreds of monitors on a modest instance.
Does ManageStacks keep my Uptime Kuma monitoring data backed up?
Yes. ManageStacks performs automated daily backups of your Uptime Kuma SQLite database, so your historical uptime data and configuration are always recoverable.
Can I set up a public status page with Uptime Kuma on ManageStacks?
Absolutely. You can configure public status pages within Uptime Kuma and point a custom domain to them through ManageStacks with automatic SSL provisioning.
Run Uptime Kuma without carrying the pager
Subscribe through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace. We handle provisioning, SSL, monitoring, backups, updates, and security. From $15/mo.