Should I self-host Pingdom?
Uptime Kuma boots in seconds, checks HTTP/TCP/DNS/ping, pages you through ntfy or Telegram, and replaces the entire Pingdom bill. Monitoring your uptime from a box you control is the one recursion self-hosting handles fine — put it on a different provider than what it watches.
Multi-region probes — Kuma checks from one vantage point unless you federate it
Pingdom's RUM and transaction checks
uptime checks (HTTP/TCP/ping) · alerting on downtime · status pages · response-time history
* Percent of the subscription price. Your time is priced at the slider's rate — $0/h ("my homelab time is free and I love it") is a legitimate position. Every number is derived from the record, never hand-written. Price source, checked 2026-08-06.
Runs comfortably on a Raspberry Pi.
Boot to healthy measured at 25s on the 2GB reference env
# Uptime Kuma — status monitoring; image ships its own healthcheck binary
services:
uptime-kuma:
image: louislam/uptime-kuma:1
container_name: uptime-kuma
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "3001:3001"
volumes:
- kuma-data:/app/data
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "extra/healthcheck"]
interval: 5s
timeout: 30s
retries: 30
start_period: 30s
volumes:
kuma-data:
Want a guided install instead? caniselfhostit.com/pingdom has AI-agent prompts that assume a bare machine — that's their half of the stool, and it's good.
FULL TIMED LOG
# Pingdom — verdict log - **Date:** 2026-08-10 - **Verdict:** YES — worth it - **Protocol:** v1 (2GB reference env, Docker preinstalled, AI assistant: claude-code) ## Setup evidence - Compose: `compose/pingdom-uptime-kuma.yml` - Boot to healthy: **25s** measured this session - Setup time recorded: 11 min (boot + configuration to first working workflow) ## What broke / notes - Boot to healthy measured at 25s on the 2GB reference env ## The call Uptime Kuma boots in seconds, checks HTTP/TCP/DNS/ping, pages you through ntfy or Telegram, and replaces the entire Pingdom bill. Monitoring your uptime from a box you control is the one recursion self-hosting handles fine — put it on a different provider than what it watches.