--- title: "Freshping alternative after the shutdown | Logdash" description: "Freshworks shut Freshping down on 6 March 2026. Logdash replaces the HTTP checks, status page and alerts, and adds cron heartbeats, logs and metrics." url: https://logdash.io/alternatives/freshping --- # Freshping alternative for teams left without a monitor Freshworks disabled Freshping free accounts on 6 March 2026 and deleted the data after 4 June 2026, so the migration is not optional, and Logdash covers the same HTTP checks, public status page and alerts on a free plan. Freshping is gone. Freshworks disabled free accounts on 6 March 2026 and deleted their data once the export window closed on 4 June 2026\. No renewal has been processed since that date, so a paid plan runs to its end date and stops. The deprecation FAQ put the reason plainly: supporting Freshping was no longer part of the go forward plan. There is no successor product inside Freshworks and nobody was migrated anywhere automatically. The free plan was genuinely good, which is why losing it stung. Fifty checks at one minute from ten locations, five public status pages with a custom domain, email and Slack alerts, SSL expiry warnings, all at no cost. Nothing on the market matches that for free, and Logdash does not either. Saying so up front is more useful than pretending the swap is like for like. What Logdash has that Freshping never did is the rest of the picture. The monitor, the application logs and the custom metrics all live under the same domain, so a red check is one click from the log lines written in that minute instead of a second tool and a manual timestamp hunt. It is AGPL-3.0 licensed and the source is on GitHub. ## A health endpoint worth checking health.js ```javascript import express from 'express'; import { pool } from './db.js'; const app = express(); // Return 200 only when the dependencies answer. A monitor that // checks the homepage tells you nginx is alive, nothing more. app.get('/health', async (_req, res) => { try { await pool.query('select 1'); res.status(200).json({ status: 'ok' }); } catch { res.status(503).json({ status: 'degraded' }); } }); app.listen(3000); ``` 1. **Point a monitor at the endpoint** Create an HTTP monitor on the /health URL. Logdash records the status code and the response time on every run. The free plan checks every 5 minutes, Builder every minute, Pro every 15 seconds. 2. **Rebuild the status page** Add the monitor to a public status page. That covers the Freshping page your customers had bookmarked. Serving it from your own domain is on the Pro plan. 3. **Connect Telegram and prove it fires** Add a Telegram notification channel to the monitor, then stop the process. Within one check interval the alert arrives in Telegram with the URL and the status code. ### Logdash vs Freshping as it last shipped | Feature | Logdash | Freshping | | ---------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | | Still running today | Yes | No, free accounts off since 6 March 2026, no renewals | | Free monitor count | 5 monitors, 5 minute checks | 50 checks at 1 minute, from 10 locations | | Fastest check interval | 15 seconds on the $15 plan | 1 minute on every plan | | Public status page | Included on every plan, custom domain on Pro | 5 pages with a custom domain, free | | Alert channels | Telegram and webhook only | Email, SMS, Slack, Twilio, webhook | | Cron and background job heartbeats | Push monitors on Pro, a ping every 15 seconds | Not offered | | Logs and metrics beside the check | Eight SDKs into the same dashboard | Uptime only | ### When another Freshping replacement is the better pick - You relied on SSL expiry, DNS, TCP, UDP or ICMP checks. Freshping ran all of them. Logdash runs HTTP and push heartbeats, and none of the rest is built. - You need email or SMS alerts. Logdash sends Telegram and webhook, and that is the entire list today, not a subset of a longer one. - You were running thirty monitors on a zero budget. UptimeRobot and HetrixTools both hand out more free monitors than Logdash does. - You want to own the whole stack. Uptime Kuma self-hosts in one container today. Logdash runs locally for development, and production self-hosting is still an open item tracked on GitHub. ## What the migration actually costs If you exported before the deadline you have a CSV of checks and incident history. No vendor imports it, Logdash included, so the move is retyping URLs. Fifty monitors is an afternoon and five is ten minutes. Historical uptime percentages do not transfer anywhere either, so treat 6 March as the start of a fresh record rather than something to preserve. ### Is Freshping really shut down? Yes. Freshworks disabled free plan accounts on 6 March 2026, stopped renewing paid subscriptions from the same date, and permanently deleted data after the export window. The deprecation FAQ is still published on the Freshping support site. ### Does Logdash have a free tier? Yes. The free plan covers 5 monitors at a 5 minute check interval, one public status page, logs and metrics. It does not need a card. ### Can I get alerts without email? Yes, and you have to. Logdash only sends Telegram messages and webhooks. There is no email alerting today, which is the opposite trade from Freshping. ### How fast can the check interval be? 5 minutes on the free plan, 1 minute on Builder at $9 a month, 15 seconds on Pro at $15\. Freshping was 1 minute on every plan including the free one. ## Keep reading [All alternatives](https://logdash.io/alternatives): One page per tool, each with the setup, the comparison and the case for staying where you are. [Hyperping alternative for logs and uptime in one place](https://logdash.io/alternatives/hyperping): Hyperping is a well built uptime and status page product, and Logdash is the alternative when you want the logs and metrics from the failing service in the same dashboard as the failed check, starting at $9 a month instead of $29. [updown.io alternative for more than uptime](https://logdash.io/alternatives/updown-io): updown.io is a deliberately tiny pay-per-check monitor that does its one job well, and Logdash is the alternative when you want logs, custom metrics and cron heartbeats for the same service instead of a credit balance and a very small dashboard. [HetrixTools alternative for uptime without the server agents](https://logdash.io/alternatives/hetrixtools): HetrixTools bundles uptime checks with IP blacklist monitoring and Linux server agents, and Logdash does neither of those, so it is only the right swap if what you actually use is the HTTP checks, the status page and the alerts. [Uptime monitoring](https://logdash.io/features/monitoring): HTTP checks as often as every 15 seconds. When one fails, Telegram tells you before your users do.