Freshworks has officially shut down Freshping, and unfortunately, there's no migration tool provided for users. The message they sent was simply to export your data and set up an alternative service. For those of you who were using the free tier with 20-50 monitors, what are your plans for moving forward? I've been looking into some options myself and came across a few services:
- UptimeRobot, which is probably the closest match for a free tier, although it lacks synthetic monitoring and primarily focuses on US locations.
- Better Uptime (part of Better Stack) seems solid, but it jumps to over $30 once you need synthetic flows.
- StatusCake offers a decent free tier as well.
I'm looking for something that supports:
- Multi-region probes, especially in Asia and India
- Synthetic flow monitoring under $30/month
- A reasonable free tier to start with since time is short—only 8 days left! How are you all making the switch?
2 Answers
I totally feel your pain with this shutdown. I run a small development agency and had about 15 monitors set up across various client sites. When I got the shutdown email, I jumped into testing some alternatives. UptimeRobot worked fine for basic HTTP checks on 12 of those monitors, but for the 3 requiring checkout flow monitoring, I hit a snag—that’s where the $30+ plans came into play. We actually opted for PingSLA for those specific checks since they support Razorpay, which is crucial for our Indian clients. It hasn’t been easy moving everything, that’s for sure!
You should definitely check out Pulsetic! They offer 15 locations globally and allow commercial use on their free plan, which UptimeRobot doesn’t support. Plus, their pricing is appealing, and they include features like status pages and incident management—all at a competitive rate.
Pulsetic does look promising! The number of locations for their free tier is impressive. But I did notice their Asia coverage is a bit thin, only covering Singapore and Tokyo without specific probes in India. If you're mainly in the US or EU, it seems like a solid alternative to UptimeRobot. I'm still on the lookout for something that has Asian probes and synthetic flow monitoring under $30; I found PingSLA which has a Bangalore probe and it seems worth testing for our Indian traffic.