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Freshping alternative for teams migrating after the shutdown
Short answer: Freshworks shut Freshping down on March 6, 2026, so its free monitoring, status pages and alerts are gone and the data export window has since closed. If you are moving your checks somewhere permanent, AlertPing is a paid, actively developed replacement: 30-second checks (faster than Freshping's one minute), three-region outage confirmation, SMS included, and hosted status pages, from $19 a month. If a permanently free tier is the only thing you need, we say honestly below where to look instead.
Last updated July 2026 · Freshping shutdown confirmed March 6, 2026
alertping ▸ run check
live
▸ type a domain and run a real-feel check
▸ probes from 3 regions · FRA · IAD · SIN
▸ waiting…▌
queued probing▌
If ever goes down, you get:
Alert fired ▸ 2 channels · 6.2 s after first failure
AlertPing app
● DOWN : HTTP timeout confirmed from 3/3 regions (FRA, IAD, SIN). Incident opened.
sms · on-call
AlertPing: DOWN. Confirmed 3/3 regions . First fail: Frankfurt.
what happened
Freshping has shut down
Freshworks retired Freshping on March 6, 2026, as part of a portfolio cut to focus on Freshdesk and Freshservice. Accounts were disabled, monitoring stopped, and after a roughly 90-day export window the data was removed, so there is no Freshworks replacement to move to. Anyone still relying on it needs a new home for their monitors, status pages and alerts now, not later.
Monitoring stopped
Checks no longer run, so any outage since the shutdown has gone unwatched. If Freshping was your only monitor, your sites and APIs have been unmonitored, and the first sign of downtime is now a customer, not an alert.
Status pages went dark
Freshping-hosted status pages stopped resolving, so any status.yourdomain.com pointed at it is broken. Customers who used it to check on you now land on nothing, which is worse than never having offered one.
No Freshworks successor
Freshworks did not roll Freshping into another product, so there is no in-house upgrade path. Moving to a different vendor is the only option, which makes this a good moment to pick one that checks faster and will not be sunset next quarter.
side by side
AlertPing vs Freshping, as Freshping was
Freshping's figures below are what it offered before the shutdown, from its own public plans. They are here so you can match what you had and see where the replacement is faster. Our numbers are on the uptime monitoring pricing page.
| AlertPing | Freshping (retired) | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Active, developed daily | Shut down March 6, 2026 |
| Fastest check interval | 30 seconds (Team plan and up) | 1 minute |
| Entry plan | $19/mo, 20 monitors, 60-second checks | Free, 50 monitors, 1-minute checks |
| Multi-region confirmation | 3 regions confirm before alerting | Checks from about 10 locations, no confirm step |
| Check types | HTTP, API with assertions, ping, TCP port, SSL, cron | HTTP, ping, TCP, SSL |
| SMS alerts | Included on every plan | Limited, credit-based |
| Status pages | 1 to 20 by plan, custom domain on Business | Up to 5 |
| Free plan | No, free trial only | Yes, until it shut down |
The honest gap is the free tier. Freshping was genuinely free for 50 monitors, and AlertPing is not; we start at $19 a month. What you get for that is faster checks, a confirmation step that cuts false alarms, SMS in every plan, and a vendor whose whole business is uptime rather than a free add-on to a larger suite that can be cut.
choosing a replacement
What to look for in a Freshping replacement
Since you are switching anyway, switch up. Four things separate a tool you will still be on in two years from another free add-on waiting to be discontinued.
A monitoring-first vendor
Freshping was a free extra inside a support-software company, which is exactly the kind of product that gets cut in a "portfolio simplification." Pick a tool where monitoring is the whole business, so keeping it running is the whole point.
Checks fast enough to matter
A one-minute check can miss short outages and cannot honestly measure a tight SLA. Thirty-second checks catch more and time a breach to the second. Read the SLA math for why the interval decides what you can even measure.
Confirmation before it wakes you
A single failed check from one location is often a network blip, not an outage. Confirming from a second region before alerting is the difference between a tool you trust at 3am and one you mute after a week of false alarms.
Alerts that reach a person
Email is easy to sleep through. SMS included on every plan, plus Slack and webhooks, means the alert lands where someone will see it. See how the channels rank in downtime alerts.
alertping
Move your monitors to something permanent
AlertPing checks every 30 seconds from three regions, confirms an outage before it pages you, and includes SMS and a hosted status page. Set up your first monitor in under a minute.
Choose AlertPing if
- You want faster checks than Freshping's one minute, down to 30 seconds.
- You need SMS that wakes someone and a confirmation step that cuts false alarms.
- You want a status page hosted away from your app, on your own domain.
- You would rather pay a monitoring-first vendor than depend on a free add-on that can be cut.
Look elsewhere if
- A permanently free plan is a hard requirement: UptimeRobot's free tier is the usual pick, and we cover its tradeoffs on our UptimeRobot alternative page.
- You need a full observability suite with tracing and RUM: a platform like Datadog fits better than any uptime-first tool, including ours.
migrating
How to move off Freshping in an afternoon
01
List what you monitored
Write down the URLs, endpoints, ports and certificates Freshping watched, plus who got alerted. If you exported before the window closed, use that list; if not, your own inventory of live services covers it.
02
Recreate the checks
Add each one in AlertPing, set the interval to 30 seconds, and add a body or JSON assertion where a plain 200 is not enough. Point your alerts at SMS, email and Slack so nothing is missed.
03
Rebuild the status page
Create a status page, map each component to a monitor, and repoint status.yourdomain.com at it so customers get their page back.
questions
Freshping alternative questions, answered
Is Freshping shutting down?
Freshping has already shut down. Freshworks retired it on March 6, 2026, disabling accounts and stopping all monitoring, with data removed after a short export window. There is no Freshworks replacement, so existing users have to move their checks to a different provider.
What is the best Freshping alternative?
For a paid, actively developed replacement, AlertPing checks every 30 seconds, confirms outages from three regions, includes SMS, and hosts status pages, from $19 a month. If you specifically need a permanently free plan like Freshping's, UptimeRobot's free tier is the closer match, with the tradeoffs on our comparison.
Is there a free Freshping alternative?
The closest free option is UptimeRobot, which keeps a free tier with a handful of monitors at a five-minute interval. AlertPing does not have a free plan; it starts at $19 a month, but checks faster, confirms across regions and includes SMS, which the free tools do not.
How do I migrate from Freshping?
List the URLs, endpoints, ports and certificates you monitored and who was alerted, recreate each check in the new tool at a 30-second interval, and rebuild your status page, repointing status.yourdomain.com at it. With a small setup it takes an afternoon, and you come out with faster checks than before.
Give your monitors a permanent home
30-second checks from three regions, SMS included, and a hosted status page, from a vendor whose only job is uptime. Running in under a minute, from $19 a month.