Freshping alternative for teams left without a monitor
Freshworks disabled Freshping free accounts on 6 March 2026 and deleted the data after 4 June 2026, so the migration is not optional, and Logdash covers the same HTTP checks, public status page and alerts on a free plan.
Freshping is gone. Freshworks disabled free accounts on 6 March 2026, stopped processing renewals the same day, and deleted account data once the export window closed on 4 June 2026. The deprecation FAQ put the reason plainly: supporting Freshping was no longer part of the go forward plan. There is no successor product inside Freshworks and nobody was migrated anywhere automatically.
The free plan was genuinely good, which is why losing it stung. Fifty checks at one minute from ten locations, five public status pages with a custom domain, email and Slack alerts, SSL expiry warnings, all at no cost. Nothing on the market matches that for free, and Logdash does not either. Saying so up front is more useful than pretending the swap is like for like.
What Logdash has that Freshping never did is the rest of the picture. The monitor, the application logs and the custom metrics all live under the same service, so a red check is one click from the log lines written in that minute instead of a second tool and a manual timestamp hunt. It is MIT licensed and the source is on GitHub.
A health endpoint worth checking
import express from 'express';
import { pool } from './db.js';
const app = express();
// Return 200 only when the dependencies answer. A monitor that
// checks the homepage tells you nginx is alive, nothing more.
app.get('/health', async (_req, res) => {
try {
await pool.query('select 1');
res.status(200).json({ status: 'ok' });
} catch {
res.status(503).json({ status: 'degraded' });
}
});
app.listen(3000);- 1 Point a monitor at the endpoint Create an HTTP monitor on the /health URL. Logdash records the status code and the response time on every run. The free plan checks every 5 minutes, Builder every minute, Pro every 15 seconds.
- 2 Rebuild the status page Add the monitor to a public status page. That covers the Freshping page your customers had bookmarked. Serving it from your own domain is on the Pro plan.
- 3 Connect Telegram and prove it fires Add a Telegram notification channel to the monitor, then stop the process. Within one check interval the alert arrives in Telegram with the URL and the status code.
Logdash vs Freshping as it last shipped
| Feature | Logdash | Freshping |
|---|---|---|
| Still running today | Yes | No, accounts disabled 6 March 2026 |
| Free monitor count | 5 monitors, 5 minute checks | 50 checks at 1 minute, from 10 locations |
| Fastest check interval | 15 seconds on the $15 plan | 1 minute on every plan |
| Public status page | Included on every plan, custom domain on Pro | 5 pages with a custom domain, free |
| Alert channels | Telegram and webhook only | Email, SMS, Slack, Twilio, webhook |
| Cron and background job heartbeats | Push monitors, POST to a ping URL | Not offered |
| Logs and metrics beside the check | Eight SDKs into the same service view | Uptime only |
When another Freshping replacement is the better pick
- You relied on SSL expiry, DNS, TCP, UDP or ICMP checks. Freshping ran all of them. Logdash runs HTTP and push heartbeats, and none of the rest is built.
- You need email or SMS alerts. Logdash sends Telegram and webhook, and that is the entire list today, not a subset of a longer one.
- You were running thirty monitors on a zero budget. UptimeRobot and HetrixTools both hand out more free monitors than Logdash does.
- You want to own the whole stack. Uptime Kuma self-hosts in one container today. Logdash runs locally for development, and production self-hosting is still an open item tracked on GitHub.
What the migration actually costs
If you exported before the deadline you have a CSV of checks and incident history. No vendor imports it, Logdash included, so the move is retyping URLs. Fifty monitors is an afternoon and five is ten minutes. Historical uptime percentages do not transfer anywhere either, so treat 6 March as the start of a fresh record rather than something to preserve.
Is Freshping really shut down?
Yes. Freshworks disabled free plan accounts on 6 March 2026, stopped renewing paid subscriptions from the same date, and permanently deleted data after the export window. The deprecation FAQ is still published on the Freshping support site.
Does Logdash have a free tier?
Yes. The free plan covers 5 monitors at a 5 minute check interval, one public status page, logs and metrics. It does not need a card.
Can I get alerts without email?
Yes, and you have to. Logdash only sends Telegram messages and webhooks. There is no email alerting today, which is the opposite trade from Freshping.
How fast can the check interval be?
5 minutes on the free plan, 1 minute on Builder at $9 a month, 15 seconds on Pro at $15. Freshping was 1 minute on every plan including the free one.