European uptime monitoring services

An uptime monitoring service checks your website or API at regular intervals from outside your own network and tells you when something breaks. Alerts arrive by email, chat, SMS or phone call, depending on how loudly you want to be woken. Many services also publish a status page, and cron jobs can check in over a heartbeat URL so silence raises an alarm.

Monitoring is one of the lighter categories for personal data, but the check locations decide whether the numbers reflect what your users see. Oh Dear, Hyperping, PingPing and Phare Uptime are run from Europe, with probes close to European visitors. A European alternative for uptime monitoring also means the contact details of your on call staff stay with an EU provider.