Healthchecks or Uptime Kuma?

Healthchecks if you want the published Cronitor path (cron heartbeats). Uptime Kuma if you want HTTP uptime — /compare/healthchecks-vs-uptime-kuma.

Is this StatusCake or Pingdom?

HTTP uptime stays on /replace/statuscake and /replace/pingdom (Checkcle). This page is a cron heartbeat.

Healthchecks is BSD-3-Clause. Uptime Kuma is MIT. You pay hosting. Template users never pay c17.

Stacks / Monitoring

Easy

Healthchecks

Cron you watch. Healthchecks is BSD-3-Clause — Cronitor without the hosted ping seat.

The problem

Cronitor is a hosted cron and heartbeat desk. You wanted a ping URL on a box you run. Healthchecks is BSD-3-Clause (healthchecks/healthchecks; last push 22 Oct 2026) — cron job and background-task monitoring in Django. Uptime Kuma is MIT if the job is HTTP/TCP uptime rather than a cron heartbeat — /compare/healthchecks-vs-uptime-kuma. This is not Cronitor's every status page, RUM, or last-mile SKU. HTTP uptime stays on /replace/pingdom and /replace/statuscake (Checkcle). Dashboards stay on /replace/datadog (Grafana).

Replaces

Cronitor

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Estimated SaaS saved

$1,200

per year, small team, before lock-in

Start on Railway

Checkcle if this is HTTP uptime, not a cron heartbeat

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Placeholder: Healthchecks (Django plus Postgres) plus a volume. Bind HTTP to 0.0.0.0:$PORT. Cron jobs ping the unique URL. No one-click template in this repo yet — Start on Railway. HTTP uptime stays on /stacks/checkcle-monitoring.

The stack

Healthchecks
BSD-3-Clause cron monitoring — the published Cronitor path
Catalog entry →
Uptime Kuma
MIT HTTP/TCP uptime if that is the job
Catalog entry →

Cost table

You stop paying	Typical / year	Self-host instead
Cronitor / hosted cron (small team)	$1,200	Healthchecks + Postgres

Agent setup prompt

Replace Cronitor with Healthchecks (https://healthchecks.io).

- Official docs. Persist Postgres. Create one check. Point one cron job at the ping URL. Do not claim Cronitor status pages or RUM.
- Uptime Kuma if the job is HTTP uptime — /compare/healthchecks-vs-uptime-kuma. Checkcle stays the published Statuspage path.
- Write AGENT_PROMPT.md.

Also as markdown: /stacks/healthchecks-cron.md

FAQ

Healthchecks or Uptime Kuma?: Healthchecks if you want the published Cronitor path (cron heartbeats). Uptime Kuma if you want HTTP uptime — /compare/healthchecks-vs-uptime-kuma.
Is this StatusCake or Pingdom?: HTTP uptime stays on /replace/statuscake and /replace/pingdom (Checkcle). This page is a cron heartbeat.
Are these free?: Healthchecks is BSD-3-Clause. Uptime Kuma is MIT. You pay hosting. Template users never pay c17.