Rebuild on a product that still ships

The Best Freshping Alternative After the Shutdown

Looking for a Freshping alternative? Freshworks shut down Freshping on March 6, 2026 with no replacement product. DevHelm gives you 50 free monitors, a custom-domain status page, and monitors-as-code via CLI and Terraform — so you rebuild once and own your config in git.

50 free monitorsCustom domain on FreeCLI + Terraform on Free

Switch to DevHelm if Freshping shut down and you need a maintained uptime monitor with status pages, webhooks, and monitors-as-code.

Stay with Freshping if you already migrated to another tool and it meets your needs — there is no Freshping account to stay on.

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Why People Leave Freshping

The recurring pain points that drive teams to look for an alternative.

Freshping shut down with no Freshworks successor

Freshworks disabled all Freshping accounts on March 6, 2026 as part of portfolio simplification. Paid subscriptions stopped renewing, free accounts were deleted after a 90-day window (June 4, 2026), and Freshworks offers no replacement monitoring product. Every Freshping user must migrate to a third-party tool.

Source: Freshping deprecation FAQ — Freshworks

Dashboard-only config lost in the shutdown

Freshping stored monitor definitions in its dashboard — not in your repo. Users who missed the June 2026 export deadline lost every check configuration permanently. DevHelm defines monitors, alert channels, and status pages in YAML or Terraform, versioned in git and deployed with `devhelm deploy`. The next vendor change is a PR, not a panic.

No monitors-as-code or first-party developer tools

Freshping shipped a REST API and dashboard UI. There was no official CLI, Terraform provider, Python SDK, JS SDK, or GitHub Action. Teams rebuilding after the shutdown who want IaC workflows must hand-roll API scripts on most alternatives too — DevHelm ships all of these as first-party tools on every tier including Free.

No dependency intelligence for third-party outages

Freshping only monitored your URLs. When AWS, Stripe, or Cloudflare has an outage, your monitors fail like any other downtime — even though the root cause is upstream. DevHelm correlates alerts against live dependency status across 80+ vendors and can surface upstream incidents on your status page.

Feature stagnation preceded the shutdown

Freshping suspended new signups in 2023 and received no significant feature updates before deprecation. Heartbeat monitoring, MCP checks, notification policies, and monitors-as-code were never on the roadmap. DevHelm ships these today on tiers that cost less than Freshping's discontinued $36/mo Garden plan.

Source: Freshping historical pricing — Garden tier

When Freshping Is the Right Call

Not every team needs to switch. Stay with Freshping if:

You already rebuilt on UptimeRobot or Uptime Kuma after the March shutdown and it meets your needs — no reason to migrate twice.
You want self-hosted monitoring with zero SaaS dependency — Uptime Kuma is the common Freshping refugee path for ops teams comfortable running Docker.
You need SMS or voice alerts today — DevHelm's phone alerting is coming soon; UptimeRobot offers credit-based SMS on paid plans now.

DevHelm vs Freshping at a Glance

DevHelm

Freshping

Product status

Active, maintained

Shut down March 6, 2026

Free monitors

50 (historical)

Free check interval

5 min

1 min (historical)

Custom-domain status page

Free tier ($0)

Public pages only

Monitors-as-code

YAML + Terraform + CLI + SDKs

Dashboard + API only

Webhook alerts

Free tier ($0)

Via integrations (email, Twilio)

Dependency intel

80+ vendors

Not available

Free status pages

1 (custom domain)

5 (historical)

Probe locations (free)

10 (historical)

Freshworks replacement

N/A — standalone product

None offered

What DevHelm Looks Like

The live monitor list, rendered with the same components as the production dashboard.

Monitors· production

Last 24h

0down

1degraded

5healthy

0paused

MonitorLast 24hUptimeLatency

Production API

production·HTTP

99.98%12ms

Auth Service

production·HTTP

99.95%8ms

Payments Gateway

production·TCP

99.91%23ms

Search IndexDegraded

staging·HTTP

98.72%340ms

CDN Edge

production·ICMP

99.99%4ms

Webhook Relay

production·HTTP

99.87%18ms

What You Actually Pay

A real-world setup, priced on both platforms.

Real-world cost comparison

50 monitors, status page, Slack + webhook alerts

DevHelm

$0/mo

DevHelm Free — 50 monitors, 5-minute checks, custom-domain status page, webhooks, CLI + Terraform included

Freshping

Discontinued

Freshping Sprout (Free) — was $0 with 50 checks at 1-minute intervals and 5 status pages. Shut down March 6, 2026.

Pricing, Side by Side

Freshping was discontinued March 6, 2026. Pricing below is historical. DevHelm prices as of July 2026.

DevHelm

Free$0/mo
50 monitors · 5-min checks · custom-domain status page · webhooks · CLI + Terraform
Starter$12/mo
75 monitors · 1-min checks · custom-domain status page · all alert channels
Pro$29/mo
250 monitors · 30-sec checks · 2 branded status pages · email subscribers · PagerDuty + OpsGenie
Team$79/mo
500 monitors · 25 seats · 5 status pages · password-protected pages

Freshping

Sprout (Free)Discontinued
Was: 50 checks · 1-min interval · 5 status pages · 10 locations · shut down March 2026
BlossomDiscontinued
Was: $11/mo · 60 checks · 1-min interval · advanced alerting
GardenDiscontinued
Was: $36/mo annual · 80 checks · 24-month retention · 15 integrations

Pricing as of July 5, 2026.

Stack replacement

Two products folded into one

What Freshping users are rebuilding

Freshping · Sprout (Free)Shut down
pricing
Manual status page · Static HTML or Notion$0 + maintenance

TotalGone — rebuild required

DevHelm

DevHelm · Free$0/mo

50 monitors at 5-minute checks across all regions
1 branded status page with custom domain
Slack + webhook + email alert channels
Monitors as YAML + Terraform + CLI
Dependency-aware alert correlation across 80+ vendors
Actively maintained — no sunset risk from a CRM vendor

Freshping bundled monitoring and status pages for free. DevHelm bundles both too — with IaC and a product that still ships.

Switching from Freshping

Freshping shut down March 6, 2026. Free-tier data was permanently deleted after June 4, 2026. If you still have an XML or CSV export, use it as a reference to rebuild monitors in DevHelm YAML or Terraform. Otherwise, inventory URLs from runbooks and deploy with the CLI.

Recover your monitor list

If you exported Freshping data before the June 4 deadline, open the XML file for check configurations. No export? Pull URLs from your last incident runbooks, DNS records, or team docs. List every endpoint, interval, and alert recipient before rebuilding.

Map checks to DevHelm monitors

Freshping HTTP, ping, and TCP checks map directly to DevHelm monitor types. Freshping's 1-minute intervals become DevHelm Starter (1-min) or Free (5-min). Define alert channels and status page bindings in the same config file.

devhelm validate -f devhelm.yml

Deploy with the CLI

Plan first to verify the config, then deploy. Future changes go through git and CI — your monitors survive the next vendor change.

devhelm plan -f devhelm.yml && devhelm deploy -f devhelm.yml --yes

Rebuild your status page

Freshping hosted up to five public status pages. DevHelm includes one custom-domain status page on Free (two branded on Pro). Point a CNAME at your DevHelm page and verify monitor-to-component automation before announcing the new URL.

Cut over alerts and update runbooks

Route Slack, PagerDuty, and webhook integrations to DevHelm alert channels. Update on-call runbooks, customer-facing status URLs, and any Freshdesk/Freshservice links that pointed at Freshping. Decommission stale Freshping bookmarks in internal docs.

Full Feature Comparison

Every capability, side by side.

Monitoring

Feature	DevHelm	Freshping
Product availability	Active	Shut down March 2026
Free monitors included	50	50 (historical)
Fastest check interval (free)	5 min	1 min (historical)
Monitors at $12/mo equivalent	75 (Starter)	N/A — product discontinued
HTTP / ICMP / TCP / UDP
Heartbeat / cron monitoring
MCP Server monitoring
Probe regions (free)	4	10 (historical)

Developer Experience

Feature	DevHelm	Freshping
Monitors as YAML in your repo
First-party Terraform provider
First-party CLI	73 commands, all tiers
First-party SDKs (Python + JS)
MCP server for AI agents
GitHub Action for CI/CD
Public REST API		Was available

Alerting & Incidents

Feature	DevHelm	Freshping
Webhook alerts	Free tier ($0)	Via Twilio integrations
Slack / Discord / PagerDuty / Opsgenie		Email + Twilio only
Notification policies / escalation	Via PagerDuty/OpsGenie
SMS / phone-call alerts	Coming soon	Twilio integration (historical)
Dependency-aware alert correlation

Status Pages

Feature	DevHelm	Freshping
Status pages on Free	1, custom domain	5, public pages (historical)
Custom domain	Free tier ($0)	freshping.io subdomain (historical)
Subscriber email notifications	Pro ($29/mo)	Via integrations (historical)
Auto-update from monitor state
Incident timelines + maintenance		Basic incident history

Platform

Feature	DevHelm	Freshping
Vendor sunset risk	Standalone monitoring product	Discontinued by Freshworks
Freshworks ecosystem integration		Freshdesk / Freshservice (historical)
Dependency intelligence	80+ vendor services	Not available
Data export before shutdown	N/A	XML + CSV until June 2026 (expired)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Freshping still working?▾

No. Freshworks permanently shut down Freshping on March 6, 2026. All accounts were disabled and data was permanently deleted after a 90-day retention period (June 4, 2026 for free-tier users). There is no Freshworks replacement product.

What is the closest free alternative to Freshping?▾

DevHelm Free offers 50 monitors with a custom-domain status page, webhooks, and CLI + Terraform at $0. Freshping's free tier had faster 1-minute checks and five status pages; DevHelm adds monitors-as-code and dependency intelligence. UptimeRobot also offers 50 free monitors but restricts commercial use and uses 5-minute checks.

Can I still export my Freshping data?▾

The export window for free-tier accounts closed June 4, 2026. Paid accounts had 90 days after their subscription end date. If you missed the deadline, rebuild from runbooks and team docs. DevHelm has no Freshping importer — recreate monitors as YAML or Terraform and deploy with `devhelm deploy -f devhelm.yml --yes`.

How do I migrate from Freshping to DevHelm?▾

Inventory your monitor URLs from any saved XML/CSV export or internal docs. Define them in `devhelm.yml` or Terraform, validate with `devhelm validate`, and deploy with `devhelm deploy -f devhelm.yml --yes`. Set up a custom-domain status page, route Slack and webhook alerts, and update your public status URL in docs before decommissioning Freshping bookmarks.

Is DevHelm cheaper than Freshping was?▾

Freshping's Sprout plan was free with 50 monitors at 1-minute intervals — DevHelm Free matches the monitor count at $0 but uses 5-minute checks. For 1-minute polling, DevHelm Starter is $12/mo. The bigger cost is rebuilding on a product that won't disappear: Freshping was free until it wasn't.

What Freshping features does DevHelm not match?▾

Freshping's free tier offered 1-minute check intervals, five public status pages, and ten global probe locations — DevHelm Free uses 5-minute checks, one custom-domain status page, and four regions. Freshping also integrated with Freshdesk and Freshservice; DevHelm routes alerts to Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, and webhooks instead.

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