The UptimeRobot alternative for teams that want data in the EU
Same every-minute checks with sharper alerting. Your data never leaves the EU, every outage is confirmed from a second region before the pager fires, and every feature is free while we're in public beta — no card, no upsell, no log-seat bundle.
No credit card · 1-minute checks · EU data residency
At a glance
- Your data never leaves the EU — it's a contractual commitment backed by a signed DPA and Standard Contractual Clauses, not a best-effort promise.
- Every outage is double-checked from a second region on every plan. UptimeRobot defaults to single-region checks; double-checking costs a paid-tier upgrade there.
- 1-minute multi-region checks on the free plan. UptimeRobot's free tier is 5-minute single-region; closing the gap means upgrading.
- Everything is included during public beta: keyword matching, JSON-path assertions, TLS banner regex, custom-domain status pages, password protection, multiple alert recipients. UptimeRobot moves most of those behind paid tiers.
Why teams move off UptimeRobot
- A 5-minute free-tier interval means you detect outages four minutes slower than paid users — a floor on your MTTR that upgrading is supposed to fix.
- Single-region checks by default pass regional network noise through as alerts. The workaround — enabling multi-region confirmation — requires a paid plan.
- US-only data residency without a region selector makes GDPR-sensitive customers nervous. There's no 'host my monitors in the EU' option, even on paid tiers.
- Paid features stack: custom-domain status pages, advanced check types and multiple alert recipients each sit behind a different upgrade step.
Why pingtoren is the replacement
- EU data residency as a contractual commitment. Signed DPA with Standard Contractual Clauses covering our EU cloud provider, and a plain-English privacy policy that spells out every country your data touches.
- Outage confirmation from a second region, on every plan. Regional BGP hiccups and upstream cloud blips — the main sources of 3 a.m. false pages — never reach your team.
- 1-minute resolution, free. Detecting outages in one minute instead of five cuts your MTTR floor by four minutes on every incident. That's worth more than most paid-plan upgrades.
- Nothing paywalled. Keyword matching, JSON-path assertions, TLS banner regex, custom-domain status pages, password protection, multiple alert recipients — all included, even during beta.
Before you switch
- If you rely on SMS or voice-call alerts for on-call rotation, stay on UptimeRobot. pingtoren only supports email and webhooks today — you'd need a webhook-to-SMS bridge to close that gap.
- If you use UptimeRobot's REST API to create or manage monitors programmatically, that workflow doesn't work yet on pingtoren — we don't have a public API.
Switching from UptimeRobot
UptimeRobot doesn't expose a public bulk export of your monitor list, so the actual move is manual. The good news: monitor definitions are small, and most teams finish in under 30 minutes.
- 1Take stock of what you have. In UptimeRobot, open each monitor and note the URL, interval, expected status codes, keyword (if any) and alert recipients. There's no bulk JSON or CSV export, so the built-in list view or a browser-tab loop is the fastest way.
- 2Create a pingtoren account. Sign up with email or GitHub — no credit card required. Email verification takes under a minute.
- 3Recreate your monitors. For each one: pick the check type (HTTP, TCP, DNS, ping or heartbeat), paste the URL, set the interval (default is 1 minute), enable the probe regions you want, and add alert recipients. Keyword matching and JSON-path assertions map one-to-one from UptimeRobot.
- 4Move your status pages. We render public status pages on your own subdomain. If you had a UptimeRobot status page, point the DNS CNAME at our status-pages host and rebuild the page layout in the dashboard.
- 5Run both services in parallel for 24 hours. Keep UptimeRobot live while pingtoren accumulates a full day of history — sanity-check that alerts fire when they should. Then delete the UptimeRobot monitors.
- 6Cancel UptimeRobot. If you were on a paid plan, cancel after the 24-hour parallel run — you keep access until the next billing date.
Quick feature reference
| pingtoren | UptimeRobot | |
|---|---|---|
| Check types | HTTP(S), keyword, JSON-path, port, TCP+TLS, DNS, ping, heartbeat | HTTP, HTTPS, Keyword, Ping, Port, Heartbeat |
| Free-tier check interval | 1 minute | 5 minutes |
| Probe regions | Six regions across Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific — free on every plan | 12 regions — multi-region confirmation only on paid plans |
| Outage confirmation | Every outage double-checked from a second region, on every plan | Single-region checks by default; retry-from-another-region confirmation is an opt-in feature on paid plans. |
| Data residency | EU only — account, monitors and history are stored exclusively in European data centres | US — hosted on AWS in North America, with no customer-facing option to choose a region. |
| Free plan | Every feature on every account during public beta | 50 monitors, 5-minute interval, single-region checks. |
UptimeRobot values verified on 2026-04-19.
Frequently asked questions
How long does the switch take?
For small setups — up to ~50 monitors — plan on 20-30 minutes. There's no bulk import from UptimeRobot, so each monitor is a manual recreate, but the pingtoren new-monitor form is fast (~30 seconds per monitor once you know the URL and interval).
Can I keep my status page subdomain?
Yes — you point a DNS CNAME from your subdomain to our status-pages host, then rebuild the page layout in the pingtoren dashboard. Existing incident history doesn't carry over, but the URL your customers already bookmarked keeps working.
What happens to my UptimeRobot paid plan during the switch?
Run both in parallel for 24 hours, sanity-check that pingtoren alerts fire correctly, then cancel UptimeRobot. On cancelation, you keep access until the next billing date — no prorated refund, but no surprise charges either.
Is pingtoren GDPR-compliant for EU customers?
Yes. There's a signed Data Processing Addendum with our EU cloud provider, Standard Contractual Clauses covering any sub-processor transfers, and a plain-English privacy policy that lists every category of personal data, every processing purpose, every retention window and every recipient. The full policy is at /privacy.
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