Uptime monitor for websites, ports, DNS, certificates and cron jobs, with Telegram alerts and public status pages
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Self-hosted alternatives to Dead Man's Snitch
Dead Man's Snitch is a hosted service that alerts you when a scheduled job fails to check in on time. One listed app does its main job and runs in your own Cloudflare account.
Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features Dead Man's Snitch describes on its own site.
Dead Man's Snitch features, app by app
| Feature | Uptime Guard |
|---|---|
| Unique check-in URL per job | Yes |
| Schedule monitoring at intervals such as hourly, daily or monthly | Yes |
| Alerts by email and mobile push when a job misses its check-in | Partly |
| Integrations with Slack, PagerDuty, Teams, Opsgenie and webhooks | No |
| Dashboard showing the status of every monitored job | Yes |
| API access with API keys | No |
Uptime monitor for websites, ports, DNS, certificates and cron jobs, with Telegram alerts and public status pages
- What a Dead Man's Snitch user would miss
- It has no chat/paging integrations and an API with keys, and covers email alerts only in part.
- What it adds
- It also has several other monitor types in the same app, owner login that needs a password plus an authenticator code and data that stays in your Cloudflare account.
- Yes Unique check-in URL per job. Each heartbeat monitor has its own /ping/<token> URL that any HTTP method can call.
- Yes Schedule monitoring at intervals such as hourly, daily or monthly. Any repeat interval you choose, such as hourly or daily, plus a grace window.
- Partly Alerts by email and mobile push when a job misses its check-in. Telegram and Web Push only; no email, SMS, Slack or webhook.
- No Integrations with Slack, PagerDuty, Teams, Opsgenie and webhooks. No Slack, PagerDuty, Teams, Opsgenie or webhook channel.
- Yes Dashboard showing the status of every monitored job. Dashboard with status, 24 hour to 90 day uptime and incident history for every monitor.
- No API access with API keys. The REST API needs a session token from the password and authenticator login; no API keys.
Sources:github.com/calmray-solutions/uptime-guard#readmegithub.com/calmray-solutions/uptime-guard/blob/main/worker/src/checks.ts