---
title: "Hyperping alternative with logs and metrics | Logdash"
description: "Hyperping does uptime and status pages well. Logdash puts the logs and metrics for that service next to the check, with cron heartbeats, from $9 a month."
url: https://logdash.io/alternatives/hyperping
---

# Hyperping alternative for logs and uptime in one place

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.

Hyperping is good software. The status pages look right without configuration, the check coverage is broad, and there is a Terraform provider if you want monitors in version control. If you are happy paying for it, this page is not an argument to stop. Most people who leave are not leaving because something broke.

They leave because Hyperping stops at the edge of the check. It tells you the endpoint returned 503 at 03:14 and it tells you fast. Then you open a log tool, find the right service, scroll to 03:14 and start reading. That second hop is the whole job at three in the morning, and it is the part no uptime product solves by adding another check protocol.

Logdash puts both in one dashboard. The monitor with its status codes and response times, the application logs streaming in from the SDK, and any counters you register, all under the same domain. The price shape is different too. Hyperping is free for 20 monitors at 5 minute checks, then $29 a month for 30 second checks and a status page on your own domain. Logdash is $9 for one minute checks and $15 for 15 second checks with a custom domain.

## A health endpoint the check can hit

 health.go 

```go
package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"net/http"
)

// 503 when a dependency is down, 200 otherwise. Keep it cheap:
// this runs every 15 seconds forever.
func health(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	if err := db.PingContext(r.Context()); err != nil {
		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusServiceUnavailable)
		json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(map[string]string{"status": "degraded"})
		return
	}

	json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(map[string]string{"status": "ok"})
}

func main() {
	http.HandleFunc("/health", health)
	http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}
```

1. **Create the monitor** On the Uptime page, add an HTTP monitor on the /health URL. Logdash stores the status code and response time for every check.
2. **Send logs from the same service** Drop in the SDK for your language. Node, Python, Ruby, Java, .NET, Go, Rust and PHP are covered. Now the check and the log lines share a timeline.
3. **Wire up Telegram** Attach a Telegram channel to the monitor and take the service down on purpose. The alert lands in Telegram, and the logs from that same minute are already in the dashboard when you tap through.

| Feature                                        | Logdash                                     | Hyperping                                             |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| Check types                                    | HTTP and push heartbeats                    | HTTP, TCP, ICMP, DNS, SSL, keyword and browser checks |
| Free plan                                      | 5 monitors, 5 minute checks, 1 status page  | 20 monitors, 5 minute checks, 1 status page           |
| Alert channels                                 | Telegram and webhook only                   | Email, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, SMS, phone calls      |
| Cron and background job heartbeats             | Pro only, a ping every 15 seconds, no grace | Heartbeat URLs with a grace window                    |
| Status page on the free plan                   | One hosted page                             | One hosted page                                       |
| Cheapest plan with a custom status page domain | $15 a month                                 | $29 a month, or $24 billed annually                   |
| Application logs for the monitored service     | Eight SDKs into the same dashboard          | Not offered                                           |
| Source available                               | AGPL-3.0 on GitHub                          | Closed source                                         |

### When Hyperping is the better pick

- You need on-call rotations and escalation policies. Hyperping schedules them and will ring a phone. Logdash sends a Telegram message and a webhook, then stops.
- You need SSL expiry, DNS, TCP or keyword checks. Hyperping runs all four. Logdash checks HTTP and receives heartbeats, and nothing else exists.
- You want Playwright browser checks that walk through a login flow. Logdash has no synthetic browser testing at all.
- Twenty free monitors beats five. If the free tier is your whole plan, take the bigger one.

## What moving actually involves

Uptime history does not migrate between vendors, so run both for a week and cut over when you trust the new alerts. Recreate the monitors by hand, point your status page CNAME at Logdash, and keep the Hyperping status page live until DNS has settled. The part that takes real time is adding the SDK to each service, and that is also the only part that changes how you debug.

### Is Logdash cheaper than Hyperping? 

For a small team, yes. Logdash is $9 a month for one minute checks and $15 for 15 second checks with a custom status page domain. Hyperping starts at $29 a month for 30 second checks, or $24 billed annually.

### Does Logdash do status pages? 

Yes. Every plan includes a hosted status page, and Pro serves it from your own domain. The hosted page is less configurable than a Hyperping page, where you set logo, colours, fonts and theme. The API and the copy-paste component are fully yours, so your own build can look like anything.

### Can I monitor cron jobs like Hyperping heartbeats? 

Yes, on Pro, but not one ping per run. A push monitor expects POST https://api.logdash.io/ping/<httpMonitorId> in every 15-second window, with no grace setting. So the job touches a stamp file when it succeeds and a heartbeat line pings while the stamp is fresh. For plain schedule-based heartbeats, Hyperping is simpler.

### Can I get alerts without email? 

That is the only option. Logdash sends Telegram and webhook alerts and has no email or SMS channel, so a webhook is the escape hatch if you need something else.

### Can I self-host Logdash instead? 

Not properly yet. The code is AGPL-3.0 and runs locally for development, but a production self-host is not a one command install and is still tracked as open work on GitHub.

## 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.

[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.

[Gatus alternative for teams who do not want to host the monitor](https://logdash.io/alternatives/gatus): Logdash runs the HTTP checks from our infrastructure instead of from a container you keep alive, so you trade a YAML file in git for a monitor that does not go down with the host it is watching.

[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.