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10 self-hosted Datadog Synthetics alternatives

Datadog Synthetics is a cloud synthetic monitoring service that runs scripted browser and API tests from global locations to monitor uptime, latency, end-user workflows and API correctness, detect failures or regressions, and trigger alerts.

Alternatives to Datadog Synthetics

Self-hosted status page and uptime monitoring tool with configurable health checks, dashboards, metrics, and alerting for HTTP, TCP, ICMP, and DNS endpoints.

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12k stars819 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted monitoring for websites and servers with uptime checks, response-time metrics, incidents, and status pages, plus optional agent-based hardware monitoring.

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10.8k stars1.2k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted status page system with built-in monitoring, incident tracking, and customizable public status pages for websites and APIs.

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5.1k stars297 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

SmokePing is an active network monitoring tool that measures latency and packet loss over time, stores results in RRD, and visualizes them via a web UI with alerting.

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2k stars216 forksGPL-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Privacy-first, cookie-less open-source web analytics with session analysis, real-user performance monitoring, error tracking and feature flags. Self-hostable or available as managed cloud.

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1.2k stars72 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source, self-hosted uptime monitoring tool for websites, APIs, and infrastructure with notifications, public status pages, and multiple monitor types.

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1.2k stars68 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Notifiarr is a unified client that delivers configurable notifications, health checks, and automation for homelab apps like Plex and the *Arr stack via Discord.

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929 stars43 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted uptime and SSL monitoring with status pages, REST API, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry exporters, per-monitor notifications, and YAML-based configuration.

603 stars37 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted uptime and SSL monitoring with status pages, REST API, Prometheus/OpenTelemetry exporters, per-monitor notifications, and YAML config.

603 stars37 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Meshping measures per-target ICMP latencies, builds histograms and heatmaps, runs traceroutes with Path MTU discovery, draws SVG network maps, and exposes Prometheus metrics.

168 stars10 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

What replacing Datadog Synthetics actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 10 of 10 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0, AGPL-3.0, MIT, GPL-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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