I got hit by a 4× price hike – so I built my own uptime monitor

In July 2025, my monitoring bill went from $8 → $34/month .

Same service. Same monitors.

Just… 4× the price.

I was running a handful of side projects (5–10 apps), nothing crazy. But suddenly monitoring became one of my biggest recurring costs.

That forced a decision:

Pay it (and accept the new normal)

Cut monitoring (not great…)

Or build something myself

I chose option 3.

What I actually needed (and probably you too)

When I looked at my usage, I realized I wasn’t using 90% of the features.

What I really needed was simple:

Reliable HTTP checks

Fast alerts when things break

Coverage from multiple regions

A clean status page

That’s it.

So I’m building Uptimely

A minimal uptime monitoring tool focused on the essentials:

1-minute checks

Monitoring from EU / US / AS

Alerts via Slack, Telegram, Webhooks, Email

Simple branded status pages

SSL monitoring

No feature overload.…