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24 alternatives to gniP

Reverse Ping - Pingdom/Cronitor alternative, quick & easy

gniP is a monitoring tool that works as a reverse ping alternative to services like Pingdom and Cronitor. Instead of external services pinging your system, gniP allows your system to ping outward, making it suitable… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. gniP launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1AU

    Howdy HN! I find myself testing my ping from time to time, especially when my internet seems wonky while WFH. It feels like there should be an easier way test my ping than puling up a terminal or a complex web app - especially when I'm on my phone or any other device that doesn't have a terminal. I figured I should be the change I wish to see in the world and created this super light ping test. I also created a latency monitoring solution (https://github.com/cjjeakle/network-monitor), feel free to clone and try it out! I know there are a lot more mature monitoring…

    2022 · ping.projects.chrisjeakle.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2PL

    Hey folks! Shahar and Tal from Keep (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.keephq.dev) here! For the last few weeks we’ve been building Peeng and can now share our beta with you: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.peeng.sh. Peeng is the easiest and quickest “heartbeat” architecture we could think of. Just pick a subdomain (e.g. x.peeng.sh), configure an interval, an endpoint, and a payload, and hit that subdomain every <X (interval) seconds — If you won’t, Peeng will send an HTTP POST request to your configured endpoint. It’s Pingdom&#x2F;Cronitor&#x2F;heartbeat.sh free alternative (but the other way around and A LOT…

    2023 · peeng.sh · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN - I’m the developer of PingStalker, a macOS utility I built to see what’s really happening on the LAN&#x2F;WLAN. I live in the CLI, but when it came to discovery and monitoring, I found it limiting. So I built a GUI that brings my favorite tools together in one place. PingStalker started because I wanted to know if something on the network was scanning my machine. I also wanted quick access to core details—external IP, Wi-Fi data, and local topology. Then I wanted more: fast, reliable scans using ARP tables and ICMP. As a Wi-Fi engineer, I couldn’t stop there. I kept adding ways to…

    Nov 2025 · pingstalker.com · its alternatives →

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    Pinggy▲282

    Public URLs for localhost without downloading any binary

    2024 · pinggy.io · its alternatives →

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    PingPing▲168

    A simple tool to monitor your website and SSL

    2018 · pingping.io · its alternatives →

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    Cronitor▲170

    Monitor cron jobs, micro-services and almost anything else.

    2017 · cronitor.io · its alternatives →

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    Ping Man▲178

    Monitor your ping in your Mac menu bar

    2018 · pingman.io · its alternatives →

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    Ping▲324

    The world’s smallest global GPS locator

    2017 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

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    Apex Ping▲301

    Uptime & performance monitoring for websites and APIs

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Expose local http, tcp or websocket connections to the public internet - amalshaji/portr

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12SA

    I've frequently found myself using [nvitop](https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;XuehaiPan&#x2F;nvitop) to diagnose GPU&#x2F;CPU contention issues. The two best things about it are: - It's easy to install if I can access pip in the container - It makes a compelling screenshot (which helps me communicate with coworkers.) With those two lessons in mind: Here is Sping! Purpose: Help observe and diagnose latency issues at layer 4+ (TCP&#x2F;HTTP&#x2F;HTTPS) Two good things about it: - It's easy to install if you have pip. (Available at…

    2025 · dseltzer.gitlab.io · its alternatives →

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    DTEKT▲70

    Website uptime and performance monitoring

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Ping▲151

    Monitor Linux servers on your phone

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15FT

    A server that replies to your pings faster than ever! Now with IPv6 support. Give it a minute and the response time will go down tremendously: ping ftlping.net On Windows, add an option not to stop after 4 pings: ping -t ftlping.net Works best on MacOS and FreeBSD. Not impressive on Windows but you can see something interesting if you run a packet analyser. Report issues here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;plingbang&#x2F;ftlping&#x2F;issues The code may be published when my future self passes it to me.

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    ServiceRadar is an open-source platform for distributed, secure network management and observability, scaling to 100k+ devices. Born from frustration with complex traditional NMS tools like Zabbix, it bridges legacy (SNMP&#x2F;syslog) and modern (gNMI, OTLP) protocols for cloud-native environments. We built ServiceRadar to simplify monitoring hybrid telecom networks, evolving it into a Kubernetes-native solution with Helm and Docker support. It uses mTLS with SPIFFE&#x2F;SPIRE, NATS JetStream for event streaming (90M+ EPS), and SRQL for intuitive queries. Integrated with OpenTelemetry,…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Web Ping▲104

    Mac App to monitor your websites

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Check Website uptime, availability, speed and more.

    2016 · hostingpill.com · its alternatives →

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    Run network commands on globally distributed probes

    2023 · globalping.io · its alternatives →

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    Ping▲78

    Measure latency in real-time, directly in your web browser.

    2020 · ping.calvin.al · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    Website uptime monitoring made easy

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    the tcpkit was designed to make network packets programable with Lua script - git-hulk/tcpkit

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    Monitor your services & share your status

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Gyeeta▲62

    An open source observability tool

    2023 · gyeeta.io · its alternatives →

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