Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Binocs

The uptime monitoring tool for the web in your CLI

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Binocs launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Uptime Monster▲208

   Monitor your websites and servers from one place

   2024 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Free Monitoring Suite by WebGazer▲338

   Monitoring for websites, APIs, and cron jobs

   2024 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Robodash▲103

   Cron and uptime monitoring dashboard

   2019 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Apex Ping▲301

   Uptime & performance monitoring for websites and APIs

   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   66uptime▲98

   Self-hosted & easy to use uptime monitoring software.

   2022 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Uptime Monitor▲76

   Get instant alerts when your website goes down.

   2023 · its alternatives →

7. 7AO
   An open source performance monitoring tool▲135

   Hey HN. We’re Jay and Vadim from Highlight.io (https://highlight.io). We’re building an open source [1] monitoring platform for web applications. Today we’re excited to be sharing a performance tool we’ve been working on, which helps you inspect the latency of code execution from the client to the server. As engineers at past startups, we often had to debug slow queries, poor load times, inconsistent errors, etc... While tools like Jaegar [2] helped us inspect server-side performance, we had no way to tie user events to the traces we were inspecting. In other words, although we had…

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   SimpleOps▲297

   Keep your websites up and never lose customers

   2020 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Hocus▲76

   The fast, easy-to-use time tracking app.

   2020 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Netumo▲92

    Uptime monitoring is easy, and simple.

    2021 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Simple Uptime▲203

    Monitor the health of your websites and servers inside Slack

    2024 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Chronoscope▲117

    Automated time tracking for software teams

    2024 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    UptimeMonitor▲8

    Self-hosted monitoring tool

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Uptime by Linkjar▲64

    Be the first who knows that your website is down

    2021 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Phare Uptime▲127

    Website monitoring, incident management, and alerting.

    2023 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Loado▲160

    Performance monitoring for websites that you will love

    2023 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Domain Monitor▲69

    The fastest all-in-one domain & website monitoring tool

    2022 · its alternatives →

18. 18TC
    Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping▲119

    2020 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    4Uptime▲65

    Uptime & performance monitoring solution

    2022 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Sonar by Templarbit▲80

    Uptime check with built in security monitoring

    2020 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Odown▲74

    Simple and reliable uptime monitoring service

    2021 · its alternatives →

22. 22WA
    What are the best features you want to find in uptime monitoring?▲14

    2021 · odown.io · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Nixstats▲117

    A new powerful monitoring tool for your server and website.

    2017 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Pulse▲75

    A simple tool to monitor your servers and sites

    2019 · its alternatives →

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