An Uptime Kuma alternative with nothing to host
Self-hosted monitoring is free to install, but you run it: the server, the updates and the question of who watches the watcher. Halvyn is hosted, so your checks run from outside your own infrastructure.
When Halvyn is the better fit
- You do not want to maintain a monitoring server that can go down with your stack
- You want checks to run from outside your own network and from more than one region
- You want escalation through Slack, Teams, SMS, voice calls and on-call rotations
- You want incidents, status pages and cron heartbeat checks without assembling them yourself
When to stay with Uptime Kuma
- You want everything on your own hardware
- You only monitor internal services that are not reachable from the internet
What you get with Halvyn
One incident per outage
Repeated failures roll into a single incident with a timeline, instead of a flood of duplicate alerts.
Blip recheck
A failed check is re-run within the same cycle before it counts, and an incident opens only after consecutive failures — a single network blip never pages anyone.
Escalation until acknowledged
Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, webhooks, SMS, voice calls and on-call rotations — with one-click acknowledge links in every alert.
Incident management
Investigating → identified → monitoring → resolved states, assignees, comments, SLA timers per severity and postmortems.
Public status pages
Uptime bars, live incidents and manual updates on a page you can put on your own domain.
Maintenance windows
Checks keep running during planned work but alerts stay quiet, so your history stays complete.
SLOs and monthly SLA reports
Track objectives per monitor and email an uptime report to owners every month.
Flat pricing
One price per plan, with every check type on paid plans (browser checks on the higher plans) — no per-host, per-check or per-feature metering.
Frequently asked questions
- Why not just self-host?
- Self-hosting is a good choice if you want full control. The trade-off is that the monitor shares fate with your infrastructure and you maintain it. A hosted monitor keeps working when your own servers do not.
- Does Halvyn have a free plan?
- Yes. The free-forever plan needs no credit card and covers HTTP checks.
Start monitoring in five minutes
Free forever plan for HTTP monitoring. No credit card. Every check type on paid plans.
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