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Migration guide · Freshping shut down March 2026

Freshping Alternative — Where to Migrate

Freshping — Freshworks' free uptime and status-page tool — shut down in March 2026, leaving thousands of teams without monitoring. This isn't a feature bake-off (Freshping is gone); it's a migration guide. CompleteStatus covers everything Freshping did — uptime checks, alerting and a public status page — and adds the SSL, security-header and email-authentication monitoring a bare uptime tool never had.

Pricing reflects the 2026 analysis — verify current rates before deciding.

CompleteStatus vs Freshping — feature by feature

Feature CompleteStatus Freshping
Status Active Shut down (March 2026)
Free tier Yes — 10 monitors + security Was free — now unavailable
Uptime checks Yes — (discontinued)
Public status page Yes — (discontinued)
Multi-channel alerting Yes — (discontinued)
SSL / certificate monitoring Yes Limited
Cron / heartbeat monitoring Yes No
Security-header grading + remediation Yes — unique No
SPF/DKIM/DMARC monitoring Yes — unique No

What only CompleteStatus brings

Security-header grading — with the fix attached

CompleteStatus grades your security headers A+ to F across CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, cookie flags, CORS and more — then ships copy-paste nginx / Apache / Caddy / PHP snippets for every finding, with an alert when the grade drops. No uptime competitor turns a finding into a fix.

SPF / DKIM / DMARC email-security monitoring — built in

Continuous SPF, DKIM and DMARC monitoring, flagging weak settings such as p=none and alerting if your SPF or DMARC record disappears, so spoofing gaps do not go unnoticed. Standalone DMARC monitors charge $20–90/mo for this; CompleteStatus includes it on every plan, free tier included.

Who should choose which

Choose Freshping if…

Freshping is no longer an option — it was discontinued in March 2026, so any monitors and status pages you had there are no longer running.

Choose CompleteStatus if…

Migrate to CompleteStatus to restore your uptime checks, alerts and status page — for free — and, in the same afternoon, close the gaps Freshping left: SSL, DNS, security-header and SPF/DKIM/DMARC monitoring, all in one dashboard.

Where Freshping is genuinely strong: Freshping was a genuinely useful free uptime monitor with a clean status page, and it served a lot of teams well for years. Its shutdown is no reflection on its quality — but it does mean you need a new home for your monitors.

CompleteStatus pricing

Free
$0/mo
10 monitors
Pro
$19/mo
50 monitors
Business
$49/mo
250 monitors
Agency
$129/mo
500 monitors

Free tier includes security-header grading and SPF/DKIM/DMARC monitoring, and allows commercial use.

Frequently asked questions

No. Freshping was discontinued in March 2026. Any monitors and status pages you had there have stopped running, so you'll need to migrate to another tool.

CompleteStatus covers everything Freshping did — uptime monitoring, multi-channel alerts and a public status page — on a free tier that allows commercial use, and adds SSL, security-header and SPF/DKIM/DMARC monitoring Freshping never had.

Create a free account, recreate each monitor (URL, method, expected status, interval), reconnect your alert channels, and publish a new status page. For a handful of monitors it's usually about an afternoon.

Yes. CompleteStatus's free tier includes 10 monitors, a status page and the security layer, with commercial use allowed — enough to replace a typical Freshping setup at no cost.

Further reading

Migrate to CompleteStatus — free

Uptime, SSL, DNS, security-header grading and SPF/DKIM/DMARC — one dashboard, one bill. The free tier allows commercial use.

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