CompleteStatus vs Uptime Kuma
Uptime Kuma is a free, open-source (MIT) monitoring tool you host yourself, usually in Docker. It checks HTTP, keywords, JSON responses, TCP ports, ping, DNS, push heartbeats and Docker containers, sends to more than 90 notification services, and serves status pages. It is excellent. The real question is whether you want to run your monitoring yourself. CompleteStatus is hosted, so there is no server to run, patch or back up, and it adds a security-posture layer and careful alert routing.
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CompleteStatus vs Uptime Kuma — feature by feature
| Feature | CompleteStatus | Uptime Kuma |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free plan (10 monitors), then $19 / $49 / $129 per month | Free (MIT licence); you pay for the server it runs on |
| Hosting | Hosted for you | Self-hosted: you install, update and back it up |
| Where checks run | Our infrastructure, one region (US East) today, outside your network | Wherever you run it; on the same infrastructure it watches, it can go down with it |
| Private / internal targets | No, public targets only by design | Yes |
| Monitor types | HTTP, keyword, API, port, ping, DNS, heartbeat, SSL, TLS config, domain expiry, content change, multi-step transactions | HTTP, keyword, JSON query, TCP, ping, DNS, push, Docker and more |
| Notifications | Email, Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, webhooks and more; PagerDuty and Opsgenie on Pro+ | 90+ notification services |
| Alert routing | Two-check confirmation for down and recovery, cooldowns, recoveries sent only where the outage alert went, personal quiet hours that never mute outages | Per-monitor notifications with retry settings |
| Status pages | Hosted, with email subscribers; custom domains on Pro+ | Yes, multiple pages with custom domains |
| Team members, roles and audit log | Yes, seats from Business (5) | — |
| Scheduled SLA reports (PDF/CSV) | Yes (Pro+) | — |
| Security-header grading + remediation | Yes, unique | No |
| SPF/DKIM/DMARC monitoring | Yes, unique | No |
| Upgrades, backups and uptime of the monitor itself | Our job | Your job |
What only CompleteStatus brings
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.
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 Uptime Kuma if you are comfortable running a small server, want monitoring for free, need to check services on your private network, or want all monitoring data on hardware you control.
Choose CompleteStatus if you would rather not run and maintain your monitoring, want it to live outside the infrastructure it watches, or need what sits on top of uptime: security-header grading, SPF/DKIM/DMARC monitoring, team access, SLA reports and hosted status pages.
CompleteStatus pricing
Free tier includes security-header grading and SPF/DKIM/DMARC monitoring, and allows commercial use.
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Uptime, SSL, DNS, security-header grading and SPF/DKIM/DMARC — one dashboard, one bill. The free tier allows commercial use.