Uptime Kuma
Uptime Kuma is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Monitoring & Status Pages category, licensed MIT and written mainly in JavaScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Datadog, Uptime Robot and Statuspage and ships a Docker image. It has 92,919 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 92,919
- Forks
- 8,610
- Open issues
- 740
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1,368
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- 2.5.7Oct 23, 2026
- Created
- Jul 3, 2021
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 1,368 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors32 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1,368 |
| Latest release | 2.5.7 (Oct 23, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 138 |
| Open issues | 740 |
| Open pull requests | 117 |
| Good first issues | 11 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jul 3, 2021 |
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About Uptime Kuma
Easy-to-use self-hosted uptime monitor with status pages and 90+ notification channels.
Description written by appsgit. Source code: github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma.
Topics
- uptime
- monitoring
- docker
- selfhosted
- self-hosted
- single-page-app
- webapp
- responsive
- websocket
- socket-io
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Is Uptime Kuma free and open source?
Yes. Uptime Kuma is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Uptime Kuma with Docker?
Yes. Uptime Kuma provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. Our step-by-step deploy guide covers the Compose file, HTTPS and backups.
What are the best alternatives to Uptime Kuma?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Uptime Kuma include Netdata, Grafana and Prometheus. Uptime Kuma itself is a self-hosted alternative to Datadog, Uptime Robot, Statuspage and Pingdom.
Is Uptime Kuma actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Uptime Kuma was on Oct 26, 2026 with 1,368 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 2.5.7, published Oct 23, 2026. It had 740 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.