Arewedown

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A simple self-hosted HTTP uptime checker with a dashboard and alerts, configured in YAML and run in Docker.

Adopt it when

Only if you already run it; Uptime Kuma and Gatus are maintained alternatives.

Watch out

No pushes since August 2023.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

JavaScript, Node.js and Docker

How established

Established: started 7 years ago, latest release 0.3.0.

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Arewedown → V8 → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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