About
DigitalOcean Uptime is a server and endpoint monitoring service that helps teams detect slowdowns, outages, and SSL issues before they affect users. It continuously checks websites, applications, URLs, and IP addresses from multiple global regions and sends alerts through email or Slack.
The service is designed for modern cloud stacks that need simple, proactive observability. It includes latency tracking, historical performance graphs, and configurable alert thresholds so teams can respond quickly to critical events and keep services available.
- Monitors endpoints from up to four global regions
- Checks availability at one-minute intervals
- Tracks latency and uptime trends over time
- Supports alerts for downtime, latency, and SSL expiry
- Delivers notifications via email or Slack
- Works with any available URL endpoint or IP address
Free Tier Value
The pricing page states: “One free uptime check—pay only $1 for more” and “New and existing DigitalOcean users get one uptime check for free every month,” so this is a capped free tier rather than unbounded free use. Using the rule for free_tier, the conservative monthly value is the cheapest paid increment beyond the free cap, which is $1/month. Feature parity is high because the free tier includes the core monitoring features listed on the page: 4 regions, 1-minute checks, up to 5 alerts per check, and email/Slack alerting.
What's included in the free tier
- 1 uptime monitor per month.
- Up to 10 checks per team.
- Up to 5 configured alerts per check.
- 4 monitoring regions.
- 1-minute interval performance checks.
- Email and Slack alerting.
See DigitalOcean Uptime pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Uptime additional monitor
- uptime monitor
- 1 per month after free allowance
- monitoring regions
- 4
- alerts per check
- up to 5
- check interval
- 1 minute
- Additional uptime monitor beyond the free check
- Endpoint monitoring
- Email and Slack alerting
- 4 monitoring regions
- 1-minute interval checks
- Latency and downtime alerts
- SSL expiry alerts
Pricing extracted from DigitalOcean Uptime's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
