---
title: "StatusCake alternative, free tier | Logdash"
description: "The Logdash free plan: five HTTP monitors, five minute checks, Telegram and webhook alerts, a public status page. And where StatusCake wins."
url: https://logdash.io/alternatives/statuscake
---

# StatusCake alternative for free uptime monitoring

The Logdash free plan gives you five HTTP monitors checked every five minutes, Telegram and webhook alerts and a public status page, and it says plainly which parts are paid.

Every free uptime plan has a shape. Somewhere in it there is a check interval, a monitor count, an alert channel that turns out to be paid, or a retention window that quietly makes the history useless. The question is never whether a free plan has limits. It is whether they are the limits you will hit.

StatusCake has been doing this for a long time and its free plan is a real product, not a trial. It also has a wider catalogue than Logdash: SSL and domain expiry, page speed, keyword checks. Logdash has none of those. If the thing that worries you is a certificate expiring on a Saturday, StatusCake solves it today and Logdash does not.

Here is the Logdash free plan without the marketing. You get five HTTP monitors, each checked every five minutes, recording status code and response time. Alerts go to Telegram or a webhook, both free, though the free webhook is a bare GET with no body or custom headers. Your dashboard can be made public as a status page on a logdash.io URL, and a custom domain is on Pro. Logs and metrics arrive from the same SDK into the same service, with a day of log retention on free. Push monitors for cron jobs and faster check intervals are paid, and there is no free path to them.

## The endpoint the monitor will hit

 main.py 

```python
# FastAPI. Return 503 when a dependency is down so the monitor sees it.
@app.get("/health")
async def health():
    try:
        await db.execute("select 1")
    except Exception:
        return JSONResponse({"status": "degraded"}, status_code=503)

    return {"status": "ok"}
```

1. **Add the monitor** Add a monitor in Logdash and give it your health URL. The free plan checks it every five minutes.
2. **Publish the status page** Make the dashboard public and you have a status page on a logdash.io URL. Custom domains are on the Pro plan.
3. **Attach Telegram** Connect a Telegram channel to the monitor. The next check that does not come back 200 sends the alert to Telegram.

### Logdash vs StatusCake

| Feature                              | Logdash                                          | StatusCake                                        |
| ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- |
| Free HTTP monitoring                 | Five monitors, five minute checks                | A real free uptime plan, limits set by StatusCake |
| Check types beyond HTTP              | None. Status code and response time only.        | SSL, domain expiry, page speed, keyword           |
| Alert channels                       | Telegram and webhook, on every plan              | Email plus a long integration list                |
| Jobs that have no URL                | Push monitors on Pro, a ping every 15 seconds    | Checks reach out to a URL you own                 |
| Logs and metrics in the same service | Eight SDKs, one timeline with the uptime history | A monitoring product, not a log store             |
| Public status page                   | Free, custom domain on Pro                       | Public reporting pages                            |
| Open source                          | AGPL-3.0, full source on GitHub                  | Commercial SaaS                                   |

### When StatusCake is the better pick

- You need SSL or domain expiry warnings. Logdash has neither, and an expired certificate is a real outage with a boring cause.
- You want page speed or keyword checks. Logdash records the status code and the response time and knows nothing about the page itself.
- Your alerts have to reach people who are not on Telegram and will not accept a webhook. That is most companies past about ten people.
- You want a vendor with a decade of operating history behind the uptime numbers. StatusCake has that and Logdash does not.

## What the free plan runs out of

The five minute interval is the first wall. An outage can be nearly five minutes old before anyone hears about it, which is fine for a side project and not fine once someone is paying you. The second wall is heartbeats, because push monitors are paid, so free covers your API but not your cron. The third is retention: one day of logs, which is enough to debug this morning and not enough to work out what changed last Tuesday. None of that sits behind a sales call, and you can read all of it before you sign up. Free plans that hide the interval until you have wired up alerts are the ones to be careful with.

### Is there an open source StatusCake alternative? 

Logdash is AGPL-3.0 licensed with the source on GitHub. If what you want is to run the server yourself, Uptime Kuma is the more honest answer today, because Logdash self-hosting is not production ready.

### Is Logdash actually free? 

There is a free plan: five HTTP monitors, five minute checks, Telegram and webhook alerts, a public status page and a day of log retention. Faster checks, longer retention and push monitors are paid.

### Are alerts included on the free plan? 

Yes. Telegram and webhooks are both free, and they are also the only two channels on any plan. On free the webhook is a plain GET with no body, so it says that something changed but not what.

### Can I self-host Logdash? 

Not for production yet. The repo runs locally for development and a proper install is open work tracked 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.

[Site24x7 alternative for when you only wanted a few HTTP checks](https://logdash.io/alternatives/site24x7): Site24x7 is a full IT operations suite with dozens of monitor types and a licence to match, while Logdash does HTTP checks, cron heartbeats, logs and metrics, and takes about five minutes to stand up.

[Freshping alternative for teams left without a monitor](https://logdash.io/alternatives/freshping): 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.

[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.

[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.