Freshping Alternatives: Where to Migrate Now That Freshping Has Shut Down

If you landed here, you're probably one of the thousands of teams who got the email: Freshping, the free monitoring tool from Freshworks, shut down for good on March 6, 2026. If you haven't exported your data yet, that's the first thing to do, not the last. Here's what happened, and where to move your monitoring next.

What Happened to Freshping

Freshping was a free website and API monitoring tool built by Freshworks, covering HTTP(S), TCP, UDP, ICMP ping, WebSocket, and DNS checks, with public status pages and alerts through email, SMS, and Slack. Its free plan was genuinely generous: 50 monitors, 1-minute check intervals, 5 status pages, and 30 team logins, all at no cost.

Freshworks discontinued it in early 2026 as part of a wider push to simplify its product portfolio around Freshdesk and Freshservice. Freshping was never a revenue driver for Freshworks, it existed mainly as a lead-generation funnel toward those paid products, so when the new leadership prioritized profitability, it was cut. Free accounts were disabled on March 6, 2026, and any data that isn't exported by roughly June 4, 2026 will be permanently deleted. Paid accounts continue only until their current billing term ends, with no renewal offered. Freshworks has not announced a replacement monitoring product.

If you're reading this after March 6 and haven't set up a new monitor yet, your sites and APIs currently have zero external monitoring. That's worth fixing today, not after the next outage.

What to Do Right Now

Before anything else: log into your Freshping account and request a data export from Account Settings if you haven't already. This gives you your monitor list, historical uptime data, and status page configuration to reference while you rebuild elsewhere. Once that's done, remove any Freshping IP addresses you had whitelisted in your firewall or CDN rules, they're no longer active and don't need to be there.

Rebuilding your monitors on a new platform is usually quick. Most teams recreate their core checks (website URLs, API endpoints, and a status page) in under an hour, since you're typically monitoring a handful of critical services rather than hundreds.

What to Look for in a Freshping Replacement

Freshping's free tier set a high bar, so it's worth being specific about what actually mattered in it, and what a good replacement should also cover:

Enough monitors and a fast enough interval: Freshping's 50 monitors at 1-minute checks was generous for a free tool. Not every replacement matches that on a free plan, so decide how many monitors you actually need before comparing prices.

SSL and DNS monitoring, not just HTTP: Freshping covered basic uptime well but never added certificate expiry or DNS record monitoring. If you've been meaning to add that coverage anyway, this migration is a natural point to do it.

Cron and heartbeat monitoring: Freshping had no way to monitor background jobs or scheduled tasks, only externally reachable URLs. If backups, billing runs, or queue workers matter to your stack, look for a tool that covers this too, so you're not migrating to another monitoring gap.

A status page included in the plan: Freshping bundled up to 5 status pages even on its free tier. Check whether your replacement includes status pages outright or sells them as a separate product.

A tool that's actively maintained: Freshping's shutdown is a reminder that free, ancillary products can disappear. A paid, focused product with a clear business model is less likely to vanish without notice.

Downdar: A Straightforward Next Home for Your Monitors

Downdar monitors websites, APIs, ports, SSL certificates, and DNS records from multiple global checkpoints, and adds the one thing Freshping never had: cron and heartbeat monitoring for background jobs, in the same plan as your uptime checks.

Setting up a heartbeat monitor is a one-line change to any scheduled job:

Downdar learns the job's rhythm from its check-ins and opens an incident the moment a run is missed or late, no library, no agent, just a plain HTTP call from wherever your job already runs.

Every check, whether it's a website, a port, or a heartbeat, is confirmed from multiple global checkpoints before an incident opens, so a single region's network blip doesn't wake anyone up for nothing. Status pages are embeddable directly into your own app or marketing site with a single iframe, restricted to the domains you whitelist, and included in your plan (each page carries a small "Status page by Downdar" notice).

Everything above is also fully scriptable. Downdar's REST API covers monitors, heartbeats, groups, tags, status pages, alert channels, and regions, if you'd rather script your migration than click through each monitor by hand.

Downdar vs Freshping (Before Its Shutdown): Side by Side

The table is honest about the trade-off. Freshping's free tier had more raw monitors than Downdar's entry plan, and it cost nothing while it existed. But it never covered SSL, DNS, or cron/heartbeat monitoring, and it's no longer running at all, which makes the monitor count somewhat beside the point now.

Pricing

Downdar offers three plans, each with a 30-day trial (credit card required):

Starter at $9 per month includes 10 monitors with 5-minute checks across HTTP, Ping, TCP, SSL, and DNS, plus 10 cron & heartbeat monitors, email alerts, and 1 status page.

Growth at $29 per month includes 50 monitors and 50 cron & heartbeat monitors, 1-minute checks, multiple global checkpoints, custom alert channels (Slack, Discord, Telegram, Teams, webhook), and 5 embeddable status pages.

Scale at $99 per month includes 250 monitors, 250 cron & heartbeat monitors, 25 status pages, and priority support with an uptime SLA.

The Bottom Line

Freshping is gone, and if you haven't already exported your data and stood up a replacement, that's the priority today. Whatever you choose next, make sure it covers more ground than Freshping did, SSL, DNS, and cron monitoring included, not just HTTP checks, so you're not migrating to another tool you'll eventually have to leave.

Downdar covers uptime, SSL, DNS, and cron monitoring in one plan starting at $9/month, with a status page included and no separate product to buy for it. You can rebuild your core monitors in minutes.