Gatus vs Pingdom
Gatus and Pingdom are both uptime monitoring software. Gatus is open source under Apache-2.0, with 12k GitHub stars. Pingdom is a commercial product from SolarWinds.
Which to pick
- Pick Gatus when
- Developers want uptime checks defined as config in Git, with assertions on response content and timing.
- Pick Pingdom when
- A business wants established external monitoring of website uptime and performance.
Side by side
A health dashboard and status page that checks endpoints against conditions defined in YAML, with alerting and incident announcements.
Website uptime, page speed, transaction and real user monitoring with alerts, from SolarWinds.
Configuration lives in files, with no UI for adding monitors, which suits engineers more than operators.
It is pricier and less developer-friendly than newer uptime tools.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
Go, Vue, PostgreSQL and SQLite
Not published
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source, sold by SolarWinds
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
12k GitHub stars
25 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 7 years ago, latest release v5.38.0.
Not known
Other comparisons
More uptime monitors
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.