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Prometheus vs Uptime Kuma

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PrometheusMonitoring & Observability
Free (open source)Published price
Uptime Kuma logo
Uptime KumaWebsite Uptime Monitoring
FreePublished price
Prometheus logo
Prometheus
Monitoring & Observability

Monitoring system and time series database.

Uptime Kuma logo
Uptime Kuma
Website Uptime Monitoring

A self-hosted monitoring tool.

Overview
CategoryMonitoring & ObservabilityWebsite Uptime Monitoring
What it isPrometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit that collects metrics via a pull model and stores them in a time-series database.Uptime Kuma is an open-source, self-hosted monitoring tool that tracks website and service uptime with a clean dashboard, notifications, and status pages.
Pricing
Published priceFree (open source)
Prometheus is a free, open-source (Apache 2.0) CNCF project with no paid tier or license fee. Costs, if any, come only from self-hosting infrastructure or from third-party managed…
Free
Free and open source (MIT license), self-hosted. There is no paid tier from the project itself; users only pay for their own hosting. Third-party managed-hosting providers may cha…
Pricing modelFreeFree
Free optionsFree plan · No free trialFree plan · Free trial
Deal on CubbieNone right nowNone right now
Company
Founded20122021
Team size1-10 employees1-10 employees
HeadquartersRemote (CNCF)Remote
Featured clientsSoundCloud, DigitalOcean, CoreOSSelf-hosters, DevOps teams, Small businesses

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