Freshping Is Gone: Where to Migrate, and How

Freshping, the free uptime-monitoring and status-page tool from Freshworks, shut down on March 6, 2026. If you relied on it for uptime checks and a public status page, both stopped running three months ago. This is a migration guide, not a comparison: the goal is to get you back to a working setup quickly, and ideally 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. List your old monitors. With Freshping gone, rebuild the list from memory, old alert emails and 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 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.

Close the gaps Freshping left

Freshping was uptime plus a status page. A forced move 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 fix attached, catches regressions no uptime tool would ever notice.
• SPF/DKIM/DMARC monitoring. So nobody can spoof email from your domain: you're alerted if a record disappears, and a weakened policy is flagged.
• Cron / heartbeat monitoring. So a scheduled job that stops running pages you instead of failing quietly.

Migrating to CompleteStatus

CompleteStatus covers the core of what Freshping did (uptime checks, multi-channel alerting and a public status page) and adds the SSL, DNS, security-header and email-authentication monitoring above, in one dashboard on one bill. Concretely:

• Free: 10 monitors at 5-minute intervals, a status page, security-header grading and SPF/DKIM/DMARC, with commercial use allowed. Enough for a small site at no cost; note that Freshping's free plan checked every minute, so if you relied on that, you want Pro.
• 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 an account, add your monitors (the checklist above; a CSV import is available if you have your list in a spreadsheet), reconnect your alert channels, and publish a new status page. The free tools let you sanity-check each endpoint's uptime, SSL and headers before you sign up.

The upside of a forced migration

Nobody enjoys a vendor shutting down, but it is a chance to add the certificate and security coverage a bare uptime tool leaves out, which you usually only notice when it fails. You can 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 what a check reports.