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📖 Documentation

🛝 Live demo

You can try out Kuvasz on the dedicated demo instance under https://demo.kuvasz-uptime.dev

Use the following credentials to log in:

• Username: demo
• Password: secureDemoPassword

ℹ️ What is Kuvasz?

Kuvasz [ˈkuvɒs], an open-source, self-hosted uptime & SSL monitoring service, designed to help you keep track of your websites and services. It provides a modern, user-friendly interface, a powerful REST API, and supports multiple notification channels like email, Discord, Slack, Telegram, and PagerDuty.

Where does the name come from?

Kuvasz (pronounce as [ˈkuvɒs]) is an ancient hungarian breed of livestock & guard dog. You can read more about them on Wikipedia.

⚡️ Quick start guide

If you want to get started quickly, please refer to the Installation guide in the documentation.

✨ Features

• HTTP(S) monitoring: Monitor the availability and performance of your websites and services by sending HTTP(S) requests.
• SSL certification monitoring: Automatically check the SSL certificates of your monitored services to ensure they are valid and not expired.
• Notifications on a per-monitor basis: Configure different notification channels for each monitor, allowing you to tailor alerts to your specific needs.
• Sleek UI: Kuvasz has a modern, responsive, and user-friendly interface that makes it easy to manage your monitors.
• Full-fledged REST API: Manage your monitors, check their status, and more through a powerful API.
• Metrics exporters: Export your metrics to OpenTelemetry and Prometheus for better observability and integration with your existing monitoring stack.
• More to come: Kuvasz is under active development, and more features are planned for the future, such as ICMP monitoring, heartbeat monitors and more.

🚀 Kuvasz vs. UptimeRobot

	Kuvasz	UptimeRobot Free	UptimeRobot Solo
Price	Free	Free	$84/year
Monitoring interval	5 seconds	5 minutes	60 seconds
Monitors limit	unlimited	50	10
Location-specific monitoring	✅*	❌	✅
Translations	✅	❌	❌
Custom data retention	✅	3 months	12 months
REST API	✅	✅	✅
Prometheus & OpenTelemetry exporters	✅	❌	❌
Backups & YAML configuration	✅	❌	❌
Status pages	📆	only 1	only 3
Maintenance windows	📆	❌	✅
HTTPs monitoring
Keyword matching	✅	✅	✅
Header matching	✅	❌	❌
Slow response alerts	✅	❌	✅
Custom HTTP methods	✅	❌ (HEAD only)	✅
Custom status matcher	✅	❌	✅
Custom headers	✅	❌	✅
Custom request body	✅	❌	✅
SSL monitoring	✅	❌	✅
Ping (ICMP) monitoring	📆	✅	✅
Heartbeat monitoring	📆	❌	✅
Port monitoring	❌	✅	✅
DNS monitoring	❌	❌	✅
Domain expiration monitoring	❌	❌	✅
Notifications
Email	✅	✅	✅
Discord	✅	✅	✅
Slack	✅	❌	✅
Telegram	✅	❌	✅
Pagerduty	✅	❌	❌
MS Teams	📆	❌	✅
Webhook	📆	❌	❌
SMS / Voice call	📆**	❌	10 incl./month
Google Chat, Pushover, Pushbullet, Splunk	❌	✅	✅
Mattermost	❌	❌	✅

✅ Supported | ❌ Not supported | 📆 Planned

• * You can deploy Kuvasz to multiple locations and monitor your services from those locations, but it does not support location-specific monitoring out of the box.
• ** Kuvasz will only provide the integration, but you will need to pay for the SMS or voice call service yourself

📣 Don't miss out on the latest updates!

First and foremost, if you want to stay up-to-date with the latest news, features, and updates about Kuvasz, please consider:

• starring the project on GitHub and on Docker Hub
• joining our Discord server
• following us on X
• following us on Mastodon

You can also find some occasional updates on my personal blog at akobor.me.

☕️ Do you like it?

While Kuvasz is free and open-source, it still requires a lot of time and effort to maintain and develop. If you like it, please consider supporting the project by donating via Ko-fi:

... or by sponsoring the project on GitHub