First
What Uptime Kuma is built for
Uptime Kuma is open source, up in minutes and hard to beat for personal installations. If you enjoy self-hosting and only need to know whether a handful of services are up, you rarely need more.
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Uptimo or Uptime Kuma?
Kuma is great if you want to self-host. Uptimo is the service you do not have to run.
Then
Where Uptimo works differently
Uptimo sits one level above: nobody maintains a container, checks run from several countries with an incident per location, an agent delivers server metrics down to GPU and Docker, and organisations separate teams and customers. That is the difference between a tool and a service.
| Topic | Uptimo | Uptime Kuma |
|---|---|---|
| Operations | Hosted service — nothing to update | One container, run and backed up by you |
| Several checking locations | Built in, incident per location | One installation checks from one place |
| Server metrics | Own agent: CPU, memory, disk, GPU, Docker, processes | Focused on reachability checks |
| Teams and customers | Organisations, roles, plan limits | One installation, one team |
| Status page | Categories, incidents, maintenance, own branding | Present, leaner |
Operations
- Uptimo
- Hosted service — nothing to update
- Uptime Kuma
- One container, run and backed up by you
Several checking locations
- Uptimo
- Built in, incident per location
- Uptime Kuma
- One installation checks from one place
Server metrics
- Uptimo
- Own agent: CPU, memory, disk, GPU, Docker, processes
- Uptime Kuma
- Focused on reachability checks
Teams and customers
- Uptimo
- Organisations, roles, plan limits
- Uptime Kuma
- One installation, one team
Status page
- Uptimo
- Categories, incidents, maintenance, own branding
- Uptime Kuma
- Present, leaner
Note: The statements about Uptime Kuma describe the product's orientation, not an audited feature state. Products change – when in doubt, check with the vendor.
Our verdict
For your own home server Kuma is the right choice, and we say that without gritting our teeth. The moment monitoring has to run reliably without anyone operating it — with locations, server metrics and separated customers — Uptimo begins.
Does Uptimo fit your operation?
Your own monitor answers that more honestly than any comparison table.
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