Freshping Is Gone — Here's Where to Migrate (and How)

Freshping — the free uptime-monitoring and status-page tool from Freshworks — shut down on March 6, 2026. If you were one of the many teams relying on it for uptime checks and a public status page, your monitors and status page are no longer running. This is a migration guide, not a comparison: the goal is to get you back to a working setup quickly, and ideally to a better one.

What you actually need to replace

Freshping did a specific set of things. Before you pick a destination, inventory what you were relying on so nothing silently goes unmonitored after the switch:

• HTTP/HTTPS uptime checks on each of your endpoints, with their check intervals.
• The alert contacts and channels — who got paged, and on what (email, Slack, webhook).
• Your public status page — the URL, the components listed, and anyone subscribed to it.
• Any SSL/certificate expiry checks you had configured.

Write these down now. The most common migration mistake is remembering the uptime checks but forgetting the status page, or forgetting a Slack alert integration until an incident three weeks later reveals nobody was notified.

A clean migration checklist

Whatever tool you move to, the sequence is the same:

1. Export or list your current monitors. If Freshping's export is unavailable, pull the list from memory plus your DNS/hosting records — every public hostname you run should have a check.
2. Recreate each monitor in the new tool: URL, method, expected status code, and interval. Match the interval you had (don't accidentally downgrade from 1-minute to 5-minute checks).
3. Rewire alerting. Add your team's email addresses and reconnect Slack/Discord/webhook. Send a test alert and confirm it lands.
4. Rebuild the status page. Recreate your components, set it public, and — importantly — update the status-page URL anywhere you'd published it (docs, footer, support macros). If you had subscribers, they'll need to re-subscribe unless you can import them.
5. Add certificate and DNS monitoring while you're here (see below).
6. Verify. Force a check on each monitor and confirm it reports correctly before you consider the migration done.

The whole thing is usually an afternoon for a handful of monitors.

Don't just replace like-for-like — close the gaps Freshping left

Freshping was uptime-and-status-page. That's table stakes in 2026, and a shutdown is a good moment to cover the things a bare uptime tool never did:

• SSL / certificate expiry monitoring. An expired cert takes your whole site down with a scary browser warning. This should page you weeks before expiry, not on the day.
• DNS and domain-expiry monitoring. A lapsed domain or a changed A/MX record is just as much an outage as a 500 error.
• Security-header grading. Continuous grading of your CSP, HSTS and other headers — with the exact fix — catches regressions no uptime tool would ever notice.
• SPF/DKIM/DMARC monitoring. So nobody can spoof email from your domain, and you're alerted if your records weaken.
• Cron / heartbeat monitoring. So a silently-failing scheduled job pages you instead of quietly not running.

Migrating to CompleteStatus

CompleteStatus covers everything Freshping did — uptime checks, multi-channel alerting, and a public status page — and folds in the SSL, DNS, security-header and email-authentication monitoring above, in one dashboard on one bill. Concretely:

• Free tier: 10 monitors, a status page, security-header grading and SPF/DKIM/DMARC — enough to replace a typical Freshping setup at no cost, with commercial use allowed.
• Pro ($19/mo): 50 monitors, 1-minute checks and 1-year retention when you outgrow the free tier.
• Business ($49/mo): 250 monitors, white-label status pages and reports, plus the REST API and MCP server.

To move: create a free account, add your monitors (the checklist above), reconnect your alert channels, and publish a new status page. If you want a hand, the free tools let you sanity-check each endpoint's uptime, SSL and headers before you even sign up.

The upside of a forced migration

Nobody enjoys a vendor shutting down, but Freshping's closure is a chance to fix the thing every bare uptime tool leaves undone: the security and certificate coverage that only becomes visible when it fails. Replace the uptime checks and close those gaps in the same afternoon.

Start free and rebuild your monitoring in one place — or check an endpoint first to see exactly what a modern check reports.