Freshworks switched off Freshping in March 2026 and deleted the data 90 days later. If your sites have gone unwatched since then, here are four options, what each free plan includes, and which one fits which kind of team. Merik is one of them, and we say where it is not the right pick.
Source: Freshping deprecation FAQ, checked 27 October 2026.
If you never moved, the risk is simple: a client's site can be down right now and the first person to notice will be the client.
The best-known free uptime monitor. The free plan has 50 monitors at 5-minute intervals, keyword checks and one status page. Paid plans start at about $9 a month (Solo) and $35 a month (Team) billed annually, with faster checks, more status pages and SMS credits. Its pricing page describes the free plan as "good for hobby and non-profit projects" and lists SSL monitoring on paid plans only, so read the terms if you are a business.
Pick it if you want the same kind of tool Freshping was, with a lot of free monitors.
The free plan checks 15 sites every minute from 4 locations, with public status pages and 3 partly white-labelled domains. The catch: you must log in at least once every 90 days or the free account stops. Paid plans remove that and add more locations and client sub-accounts.
Pick it if one-minute checks from several locations matter more than the number of monitors.
Open-source and self-hosted. It supports HTTP, keyword, TCP, ping, DNS and more, with dozens of notification channels and status pages on your own domains. You need a small server (a few hundred rupees a month) and someone to keep it updated, and it checks from one place unless you run more than one copy.
Pick it if you have a developer who is happy to host and maintain it.
Merik is a workspace for running a services team: attendance, a daily work log, clients and invoices. Website monitoring is built into it, so each site belongs to a client, a project and an employee. Merik checks each site every five minutes for availability, HTTP status and response time, confirms a failure twice before opening an incident, and sends the incident to the employee who owns that site by email or Slack. It learns each site's normal response time and warns when it drifts, notes your GitHub and Vercel deploys on the incident timeline, recognises when an outage is really Stripe, Vercel or Cloudflare being down, and produces a monthly SLA report for each client. It is free, with no limit on sites.
What Merik does not do yet: SSL expiry alerts, keyword checks, checks from more than one location, SMS or WhatsApp alerts, and status pages on your own domain. If you need those today, use one of the tools above, alone or next to Merik.
Pick it if you run sites for clients and want to know who is responsible when one goes down, and to send each client a monthly report, without another tool to maintain.
| UptimeRobot (free) | HetrixTools (free) | Uptime Kuma | Merik | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹0; paid from about $9/mo | ₹0; paid plans available | ₹0 plus your server | ₹0 |
| Sites | 50 | 15 | As many as your server handles | No limit |
| Check interval | 5 minutes | 1 minute | As low as 20 seconds | 5 minutes |
| Check locations | Multiple | 4 | One per copy you run | One |
| Keyword check | Yes | Not confirmed | Yes | Not yet |
| SSL expiry | Paid plans | Not confirmed | Certificate info | Not yet |
| Status pages | 1 | Public pages, 3 custom domains | Yes, on your domains | Private link per page |
| Sites grouped by client | Tags | Paid sub-accounts | Tags | Yes: client, project and owner |
| Incident goes to a named person | Alert contacts | Alert contacts | Notification channels | The employee who owns the site |
| Monthly report per client | Not on free | Uptime reports | No | Yes, with SLA target, MTTA and MTTR |
| Catch | Free plan aimed at hobby and non-profit use | Log in every 90 days | You maintain the server | Fewer check types than a dedicated monitor |
UptimeRobot and HetrixTools plans checked on their pricing pages on 27 October 2026; Uptime Kuma from its GitHub page in September 2026. "Not confirmed" means we could not find it on the vendor's pricing page, not that the product lacks it. Plans change; check before you sign up.
Freshping's data is gone, so you will be rebuilding the list rather than importing it.
Yes. Freshworks disabled free accounts on 6 March 2026 and stopped renewing paid plans from that date. Data was kept for 90 days and then permanently deleted. Freshworks did not name a replacement.
Almost certainly not; the 90-day retention window has passed. Rebuild the list from your client list, DNS records or hosting dashboards.
For plain uptime checks, UptimeRobot's free plan (50 monitors, 5-minute checks) or HetrixTools' free plan (15 monitors, 1-minute checks from 4 locations). Check each one's terms if you are a business. For agencies that want checks tied to clients and owners, Merik includes that free.
Not yet. Merik checks availability, HTTP status and response time every five minutes. If SSL alerts matter to you, run UptimeRobot or HetrixTools for that alongside Merik.
Comparing suites rather than monitors? See Merik vs Zoho One for agencies.
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