Keep vs Uptime Kuma
| Tagline | Open-source alert management platform to correlate and deduplicate noisy alerts | Fancy self-hosted uptime monitoring with a beautiful dashboard and status pages |
| Category | Monitoring & Status Pages | Monitoring & Status Pages |
| Replaces | Datadog, Statuspage, Pingdom | UptimeRobot, Pingdom, Statuspage |
| GitHub stars | 6.5k | 88k |
| Language | Python | JavaScript |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 2/5 Easy |
| Deploy options | Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes | Docker Docker Compose Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 1 month ago | 5 days ago |
| View repo | View repo |
Where each falls short
The honest trade-offs — what you give up with each, versus the proprietary tools they replace.
Keep
- AI correlation features require OpenAI API key (not fully self-contained)
- Relatively young project; some integrations are still alpha quality
- No built-in on-call scheduling; must integrate with external tools
Uptime Kuma
- Single-node by design; no built-in multi-region / global probe network like Pingdom or UptimeRobot Pro
- Status pages are simpler than Statuspage.io (limited custom domains UX, no subscriber-tier management, fewer branding controls)
- No SLA reporting/analytics depth or team RBAC found in commercial offerings
- Scaling to thousands of monitors can strain the single SQLite/MariaDB backend
Bottom line
Both are a similar lift to self-host; choose Uptime Kuma for the larger community and ecosystem. Uptime Kuma has seen more recent development. Open each guide below for deploy steps and the full feature gap.
Keep
Open-source alert management platform to correlate and deduplicate noisy alerts
Uptime Kuma
Fancy self-hosted uptime monitoring with a beautiful dashboard and status pages