Checkmate vs Pingdom
Checkmate and Pingdom are both uptime monitoring software. Checkmate is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 11k GitHub stars. Pingdom is a commercial product from SolarWinds.
Which to pick
- Pick Checkmate when
- You want an Uptime Kuma-style monitor that also tracks server CPU, memory and disk.
- Pick Pingdom when
- A business wants established external monitoring of website uptime and performance.
Side by side
A self-hosted monitor for website uptime, response times, server hardware and incidents, with status pages.
Website uptime, page speed, transaction and real user monitoring with alerts, from SolarWinds.
AGPL license, and hardware monitoring needs its separate agent.
It is pricier and less developer-friendly than newer uptime tools.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
TypeScript, JavaScript and MongoDB
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by SolarWinds
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
11k GitHub stars
25 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v3.13.1.
Not known
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.