#44 in Monitoring & ObservabilityUpdated 2026-08

Peekaping

by Peekaping · Self-hosted uptime monitoring for websites, APIs and infrastructure

25.8 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

Peekaping is a self-hosted uptime monitor written in Go with a React and TypeScript dashboard, deployed with Docker. It checks HTTP/HTTPS, TCP, ping, DNS, gRPC, SNMP, Docker containers, databases and message brokers, and sends alerts through email, webhooks, chat tools and on-call services. It publishes public or private status pages and stores data in SQLite, PostgreSQL or MongoDB.

Best for: Small teams that want to run their own uptime monitoring for websites, APIs and infrastructure.
Pricing: No prices are shown; the page describes the project as 100% open source and self-hosted, so hosting costs are your own.
Runs on: Self-hosted

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Checks HTTP, TCP, ping, DNS, gRPC, SNMP, Docker and databases
Alerts via Slack, Telegram, email, webhooks, PagerDuty, ntfy
Storage is selectable: SQLite, PostgreSQL or MongoDB
Runs entirely in your environment, with data kept on your server

Trade-offs

Self-hosted only; the page says no hosted option exists yet
You supply and maintain the server, database and upgrades
Early-stage project: 1.2K GitHub stars and few testimonials

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 0 out of 100
API quality: 10 out of 100
Documentation: 0 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 71 out of 100
Changelog: 55 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 80 out of 100
Operational trust: 0 out of 100

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness: 85 out of 100
Maintenance: 70 out of 100

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