Freshping shut down. Your sites still need watching.
Freshworks pulled the plug on Freshping in March 2026, and there is no replacement coming. If you are looking for somewhere solid to land, Oh Dear watches uptime, SSL, broken links, DNS, cron jobs, and more from one dashboard.
We are not free like Freshping was. We are also not going anywhere, and we do a great deal more than a simple ping.
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Oh Dear isn't free. Freshping was, and look how that ended.
We could dress this up, but you would see through it. Freshping cost nothing, and that is exactly the kind of product a big company axes when priorities shift. You are here because it happened.
Here is the thing about "free" monitoring in 2026: most of it now comes with strings. UptimeRobot's free tier has been non-commercial-use-only since late 2024, so if you are watching client or business sites, you are paying somewhere regardless. The honest question isn't "free or paid," it is "what do I get, and will it still be here next year?"
Oh Dear starts at €15/month, every check type included, and you can try the whole thing for 10 days without handing over a card.
Monitoring is our whole business, not a free add-on someone can cut
Freshworks said it best in their own shutdown notice: supporting Freshping was "no longer part of our go forward plan." When monitoring is one small tile inside a giant suite, that is always a risk. It can be switched off the moment it stops moving the needle for the parent company.
Oh Dear is different by design. We are independent, we are profitable, and website monitoring is the only thing we do. It is built and run by a small team that answers your support emails personally. There is no roadmap meeting where "should we keep doing this" is even a question. This is the thing we do.
Everything Freshping watched, and a lot it never did
Freshping checked if your site was up and gave you a status page. Useful, but it is a small slice of what actually breaks a website. Oh Dear keeps an eye on the rest, too.
We warn you 30, 14, and 7 days before a certificate expires, and catch chain issues that throw browser warnings. Freshping didn't watch this at all.
We crawl your whole site daily and flag dead links and insecure content before your visitors trip over them.
Track performance, SEO, accessibility, and Core Web Vitals over time, and get alerted when scores slip.
We track DNS changes and tell you before a domain lapses, so nobody loses a site to a missed renewal.
Know the moment a backup or scheduled job doesn't run, instead of finding out when you need it.
Describe a check in plain English ("the login form works", "prices are showing") and we verify it for you.
You'll be set up in a few minutes
There is no Freshping export to wrestle with, because that data is already gone. So you are starting clean, and we made that painless.
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Add your sites. Paste in the sites you were watching on Freshping. If you kept an export, your list of URLs is all you need.
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We work out the checks. Point us at a site and we set up uptime, SSL, and the rest for you. Tweak anything you like.
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Invite your team. Every plan includes unlimited users, so bring everyone in and route alerts to the right people.
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Publish a status page. Freshping gave you five. We give you as many as you want, on every plan.
Running an agency?
A lot of agencies leaned on Freshping's free status pages for client sites. If that was you, watching every client from one account, with branded reports and status pages, is worth a look.
Frequently asked questions
Is Oh Dear free like Freshping was?
No, and we would rather be upfront about it. Freshping was free, and Freshworks shut it down anyway. Oh Dear is a paid product, which is exactly why it is still here and still being worked on every week. You can try everything for 10 days without a credit card, and paid plans start at €15/month with every check type included.
Can I import my Freshping monitors into Oh Dear?
There is no automatic import, and honestly there is nothing left to import from: Freshping deleted its customer data roughly 90 days after the 6 March 2026 shutdown. The good news is setup is quick. Add your sites, and we work out which checks to run for each one. Most people are up and running in a few minutes.
When exactly did Freshping shut down?
Freshworks disabled free Freshping accounts on 6 March 2026 and deleted customer data around 90 days later, in early June 2026. Their own notice put it plainly: supporting Freshping was "no longer part of our go forward plan." There is no replacement product from Freshworks.
What does Oh Dear monitor that Freshping never did?
Freshping checked whether your site was up and gave you a status page. Oh Dear does that and a lot more: SSL certificate health, broken links and mixed content across your whole site, Lighthouse audits, DNS and domain expiry, cron and scheduled task monitoring, application health, and AI checks that verify things in plain English.
How much does Oh Dear cost?
Plans start at €15/month, and every plan includes every check type, unlimited users, and unlimited status pages. You are billed per site you watch, not per feature and not per seat. See the full pricing for the details.
I only want a free up/down ping, where should I go?
Fair enough, and we will point you honestly: if free is the only requirement, Uptime Kuma is a solid open-source option you host yourself. Just know that most "free" hosted tiers now come with strings (UptimeRobot's free plan, for example, has been non-commercial-use-only since late 2024), so for a business site you tend to pay somewhere regardless. If you want more than a ping, that is where Oh Dear earns its keep.
Wait, there's even more
API & endpoint monitoring
Call your endpoints every minute and validate what they actually return: status codes, response bodies, headers and response times. Webhooks and scheduled jobs included.
Continuous certificate monitoring
SSL certificates are essential in website security. We check all your certificate expiration dates & alert any change we detect.
Performance monitoring
We provide highly detailed performance monitoring and insights. We'll notify you as soon as we detect your website is getting slow.
Fast and insightful notifications
Get notified instantly as soon as we detect an issue or an important change. Enable any channel you use, you're in full control.
Scheduled task monitoring
Your cron jobs (Linux) and scheduled tasks (Windows) are the heart of your data processing. We can monitor every single one of them.
Broken page & mixed content
We crawl and index your entire website, just like Google. As soon as we detect a broken link on your site we will let you know.
DNS record monitoring
Receive a notification whenever your DNS records are modified - intentionally or maliciously - so you can act and verify faster.
Application health monitoring
A lot can go wrong inside your app and server. Disk space may fill up, or the database may go down. We'll notify you when something is off.
Beautiful public status pages
In times of crisis, a public status page allows you to communicate to your clients. We'll host your status page so it's always available.
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When your website goes down we'll let you know instantly. Now you can act before your or your client's brand reputation takes a hit.
Domain monitoring
We can check how long your domain is still registered. If your renewal date is close, we'll notify you. This will avoid you losing your domain.
Lighthouse SEO monitoring
We track the speed & performance of your website over time. If we detect your website is suddenly slower, we'll let you know.
Sitemap monitoring
Elevate your SEO strategy and optimize your site. We analyse your sitemap health and check every URL for broken links.
Describe what you want to monitor
AI-powered monitoring
Use AI to verify anything you want on your websites and services with Oh Dear's AI-powered monitoring feature.
Port scanner
Define which ports should be open, and we scan all 65,535 ports on your server. Get alerted when expected ports go down or unexpected ports appear.
DNS blocklist monitoring
DNS blocklist monitoring helps you stay off spam and ad-block lists. Get notified when your DNS is blocked by a blacklist.
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Connect Oh Dear to your identity provider. Your team signs in with the credentials they already use.
GDPR & EU data residency
Oh Dear is a Belgian company. Your monitoring data is stored in the EU, with a signable DPA and a public subprocessor list.
Give your sites a monitor that sticks around
Start a no-strings-attached 10-day free trial. You're all set in less than a minute. (No credit card needed.)
Not convinced yet? Need help? Get in touch via support@ohdear.app.
