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Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Pulse

A simple tool to monitor your servers and sites

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Pulse launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Search Cluster Monitoring & Maintenance, Redefined

    2025 · neverblink.ai · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    The simplest uptime monitoring for developers & teams

    2019 · apps.shopify.com · its alternatives →

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    Keep your web service alive with Pulse

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Pulsetic▲407

    Know when your site is down before your customers do

    2020 · pulsetic.com · its alternatives →

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    Pulse.red▲195

    A powerful time tracker for those who appreciate simplicity

    2018 · pulse.red · its alternatives →

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    GDPR compliant web and mobile analytics made simple

    2019 · pulsemetrics.io · its alternatives →

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    Pulse▲4

    Uptime monitoring for the services you actually run

    Jul 2026 · readpulse.app · its alternatives →

  8. 8PA

    Feel free to use it in your application. You can make it imageless but I used an image just because you can easily swap it out and its a little less code.

    2011 · moeedm.com · its alternatives →

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    Pulse▲110

    Share, discuss, and collaborate asynchronously

    2021 · pulseasync.com · its alternatives →

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    Pulse▲90

    Lightweight real-time polls - open source & self-hosted

    Mar 2026 · demo.pulse.kartikeybhardwaj.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey hn! I'm one of the co-founders of highlight.io, an open source monitoring tool. Today we're sharing a ClickHouse-based logging solution we've been working on. We wanted to showcase how we built it and share how you could try it out to give feedback. Since we started working on highlight.io, we've been hyper-focused on "cohesion", or ensuring that when you install your monitoring stack, all of the resources in that stack (user interactions, requests, traces, logs, etc.) are connected in a consumable way. We've written up more about our philosophy on this here [1]. We started building…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Realtime analytics with precise geolocation for your website

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Pulse▲100

    AI powered tasks, notes, and calendar in one workspace

    2025 · trypulse.app · its alternatives →

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    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 →

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    Pulse▲6

    Website monitoring & uptime tracking

    2025 · pulse.punyakrit.dev · its alternatives →

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    Pulse▲4

    Open source web analytics for developers.

    Apr 2026 · pulse.velovix.com · its alternatives →

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    Pulse▲128

    A community for technology leaders to learn from each other

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Real user monitoring for web apps.

    2015 · raygun.com · its alternatives →

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    Nixstats▲117

    A new powerful monitoring tool for your server and website.

    2017 · login.webpros.com · its alternatives →

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    Pulse is a platform for team alignment. Engineered to help modern teams stay more connected and aligned by communicating more openly and asynchronously.

    2018 · sametab.com · its alternatives →

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    Server monitoring made simple

    2019 · sumvipvn.net · its alternatives →

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    Pulses▲8

    PowerUp your applications with realtime features.

    2025 · pulses.cloud · its alternatives →

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