Kuvasz

Kuvasz [ˈkuvɒs] is an open-source, self-hosted uptime & SSL monitoring service with status pages, designed to help you keep track of your websites and services. It provides a modern, user-friendly interface, a powerful REST API, and supports multiple notification channels like email, Discord, Slack, Telegram, and PagerDuty.

📖 Documentation

🛝 Live demo

You can try out Kuvasz on the dedicated demo instance under https://demo.kuvasz-uptime.dev

Use the following credentials to log in:

• Username: demo
• Password: secureDemoPassword

🔮 Roadmap

⚡️ Quick start guide

If you want to get started quickly, please refer to the Deployment guide in the documentation.

✨ Features

• HTTP(S) monitoring: Monitor the availability and performance of your websites and services by sending HTTP(S) requests.
• SSL certification monitoring: Automatically check the SSL certificates of your monitored services to ensure they are valid and not expired.
• Notifications on a per-monitor basis: Configure different notification channels for each monitor, allowing you to tailor alerts to your specific needs.
• Status pages: Create public or private status pages to keep your users or your own team informed about the status of your services.
• Sleek UI: Kuvasz has a modern, responsive, and user-friendly interface that makes it easy to manage your monitors.
• Full-fledged REST API: Manage your monitors, check their status, and more through a powerful API.
• Metrics exporters: Export your metrics to OpenTelemetry and Prometheus for better observability and integration with your existing monitoring stack.
• More to come: Take a look at our Roadmap

🚀 Kuvasz vs. UptimeRobot

| | Kuvasz | UptimeRobot Free | UptimeRobot Solo | |-------------------------------------------|:-------------:|:----------------:|:----------------:| | Price | Free | Free | $84/year | | Monitoring interval | 5 seconds | 5 minutes | 60 seconds | | Monitors limit | unlimited | 50 | 10 | | Location-specific monitoring | ✅* | ❌ | ✅ | | Translations | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | Custom data retention | ✅ | 3 months | 12 months | | REST API | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Prometheus & OpenTelemetry exporters | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | Backups & YAML configuration | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | Status pages | ✅ | only 1 | only 3 | | Maintenance windows | 📆 | ❌ | ✅ | | HTTPs monitoring | | | | | Keyword matching | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Header matching | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | Slow response alerts | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | Custom HTTP methods | ✅ | ❌ (HEAD only) | ✅ | | Custom status matcher | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | Custom headers | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | Custom request body | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | SSL monitoring | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | Heartbeat (push) monitoring | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | Ping (ICMP) monitoring | 📆 | ✅ | ✅ | | Port monitoring | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | | DNS monitoring | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | | Domain expiration monitoring | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | | Notifications | | | | | Email | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Discord | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Slack | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | Telegram | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | Pagerduty | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | MS Teams | 📆 | ❌ | ✅ | | Webhook | 📆 | ❌ | ❌ | | SMS / Voice call | 📆** | ❌ | 10 incl./month | | Google Chat, Pushover, Pushbullet, Splunk | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | | Mattermost | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |

✅ Supported | ❌ Not supported | 📆 Planned

• * You can deploy Kuvasz to multiple locations and monitor your services from those locations, but it does not support location-specific monitoring out of the box.
• ** Kuvasz will only provide the integration, but you will need to pay for the SMS or voice call service yourself

Where does the name come from?

Kuvasz (pronounce as [ˈkuvɒs]) is an ancient hungarian breed of livestock & guard dog. You can read more about them on Wikipedia.

📣 Don't miss out on the latest updates!

First and foremost, if you want to stay up-to-date with the latest news, features, and updates about Kuvasz, please consider:

• starring the project on GitHub and on Docker Hub
• following us on X
• following us on Mastodon

☕️ Do you like it?

While Kuvasz is free and open-source, it still requires a lot of time and effort to maintain and develop. If you like it, please consider supporting the project by donating via Ko-fi:

... or by sponsoring the project on GitHub