Uptime Kuma
Friendly self-hosted uptime monitoring for member-facing services
Review status: Evaluated. Read the evidence and pilot limits below before choosing.
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oss-osi-approved full guide featuredOverview
Uptime Kuma monitors HTTP endpoints, ports, and certificates. Operators track booking pages, captive portals, and status of self-hosted apps with notifications.
At a glance
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Categories | monitoring-observability |
| Deployment | self-hosted |
| License class | oss-osi-approved (MIT) |
| Cost model | free-self-hosted |
| Implementation difficulty | easy |
| Maintenance burden | low |
| Maturity | stable |
| Freshness status | partially-verified (2026-07-17) |
| Completeness | editorially-reviewed |
| Confidence | medium |
| Directory tier | evaluated |
Cost reality
Free software; host on a small always-on node preferably separate from monitored systems.
Pricing and free-tier limits change frequently; re-check official pricing before budget decisions.
Tasks reduced or augmented
Software does not replace community or ops staff. It may reduce or augment:
- Detecting outages early
- Certificate expiry warnings
Human oversight still needed
- On-call ownership
- Public status page messaging
Manual process this can replace
triage-network-connectivity
- Relationship: infrastructure
- Automation level: assisted
- Manual process this can replace: Repeated manual checks of configured HTTP endpoints, ports, and certificates after a report.
- Tasks it can reduce: Supplies check results, alert timing, and heartbeat history for monitored services.
- Role it assists: it-security-administrator
- What still requires a person: Validate each alert, establish affected users and locations, distinguish network from application or upstream causes, communicate status, and approve changes.
- What happens if it fails: A missed or false alert can delay response or cause unnecessary intervention, while a healthy endpoint can conceal a user-specific connectivity problem.
- How to measure the pilot: For pilot alerts, record time to human acknowledgement and whether investigation confirms the reported service and scope.
- Confidence: low
Data held
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monitor configs
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heartbeat history
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notification settings
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Personal data: no / limited
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Payment data: no / not primary
Risks
| Area | Notes |
|---|---|
| Vendor lock-in | Evaluate export formats and API completeness before deep customization. |
| Security | Apply updates promptly; restrict admin access; enable TLS. |
| Compliance | Operator remains responsible for privacy and local regulatory obligations. |
| Licensing | Confirm license fits commercial coworking use. |
| Operational | Plan backups, monitoring, and a restore drill before production use. |
Coworking fit
Roles: technical-operator, operations-manager
Workflows: incident-response, backup-restore-drill
Problems: improve-member-experience, disaster-recovery, reduce-software-cost
Smallest useful experiment
Monitor five critical URLs (website, booking, Wi-Fi portal, CRM, payment link) with Telegram/email alerts.
Initial planning estimate (unverified): 1–3 days
Links
Implementation guide
See the human-written implementation guide.
Compose pack: compose/uptime-kuma
Verification
- Status:
partially-verified - Completeness:
editorially-reviewed - Confidence:
medium - Tier:
evaluated - Last reviewed:
2026-07-17 - Sources:
Editorial evaluation based on the listed official project, repository, and documentation pages. Task fit has not been implementation-tested; monitoring evidence assists but does not complete network diagnosis or incident ownership.