Uptime Kuma vs Vigil
| Tagline | Fancy self-hosted uptime monitoring with a beautiful dashboard and status pages | Microservices status page in Rust that monitors infrastructure and alerts |
| Category | Monitoring & Status Pages | Monitoring & Status Pages |
| Replaces | UptimeRobot, Pingdom, Statuspage | Statuspage, UptimeRobot |
| GitHub stars | 91k | 1.9k |
| Language | JavaScript | Rust |
| License | MIT | MPL-2.0 |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 4/5 Involved |
| Deploy options | Docker Docker Compose Manual | Docker Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | yesterday | 4 months 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.
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
Vigil
- Configuration is TOML-file based with no admin UI
- Status page and incident workflow are simpler than Statuspage.io (no subscriber management or incident history UX)
- Single-region probing
- Smaller community and fewer integrations than commercial products
Bottom line
Choose Uptime Kuma if you want the lower-effort setup; 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.
Uptime Kuma
Fancy self-hosted uptime monitoring with a beautiful dashboard and status pages