European uptime monitoring tools in 2026

For an uptime monitor run by a company in the EU, start with Oh Dear, a Belgian service that keeps its data in Belgium, or Phare, which says it's made, hosted and incorporated in the EU and has a free plan. updown.io from Paris suits people who want to pay per check, Hyperping adds on-call and status pages, and UptimeRobot gives you 50 free monitors. If you'd rather own the whole thing, run Uptime Kuma on a European server.

Uptime monitors at a glance

Platform	Company	Where account data is kept	Free option	Paid from
Oh Dear	Belgium	Belgium	10-day trial	€15 a month for 2 sites, excl. VAT
Phare	Lightkeeper OÜ, incorporated in the EU	EU	100,000 monitoring events a month	€5 a month excl. taxes, plus usage
updown.io	Paris, France	Not stated	Not stated	€5 for 200,000 checks, excl. VAT, no subscription
Hyperping	Hyperping SAS, Paris, France	DigitalOcean, Frankfurt	20 monitors, 5-minute checks	$24 a month, billed yearly
UptimeRobot	UptimeRobot s. r. o., Bratislava, Slovakia	Not stated	50 monitors, 5-minute checks	€10 a month, or €9 billed yearly
Uptime Kuma	Open source, MIT licence	Your own server	Free software	The cost of your server
Eurobase	Warsaw, Poland	European infrastructure run by Scaleway, a French provider	None, health checks only route traffic away from a failing container	Included in €10 or €20 a month + VAT

Prices are from each provider's own page, checked on 10 November 2026.

What to check before you sign up

• The company and its subprocessors, not only the brand. An EU company can still store your data with an American cloud. Hyperping names DigitalOcean as its main host, and UptimeRobot lists AWS, DigitalOcean and Limestone Networks for storing data. EU region vs EU company explains why the operator matters.
• Where the checks come from. updown.io runs 10 monitoring nodes, of which Roubaix, Frankfurt and Helsinki are in Europe.
• How a down alert is confirmed. One failed request from one place is often a network blip. Oh Dear and updown.io both confirm from a second location before they alert you.
• Check interval against price. UptimeRobot and Hyperping both check every 5 minutes on their free plans. Paid tiers go faster: 30 seconds on Hyperping Essentials, 15 seconds on UptimeRobot Scale. Phare counts each check as an event, so short intervals use its quota sooner.
• Monitor from outside your host. A check that runs on the same platform as your app can go down with it.

1. Oh Dear

A Belgian monitoring service started in 2018 by a developer and a sysadmin. It checks your site every minute and asks a second location to confirm before it alerts you. One subscription also covers SSL, broken links, DNS, domain expiry, cron jobs and status pages. Data is stored in Belgium on ISO 27001-certified infrastructure, and every customer can sign a data processing agreement.

• Best for: agencies and teams that look after many sites and want one tool for every kind of check.
• Price: from €15 a month for 2 sites and servers, excl. VAT, up to €399 a month for 200. Paying yearly gives 2 months free, and every plan starts with a 10-day trial without a card.
• What it lacks: a free plan.

2. Phare

Phare is run by Lightkeeper OÜ and states that it's made, hosted and incorporated in the European Union. It checks websites and APIs as often as every 30 seconds and adds incident management, maintenance windows and status pages with custom domains.

• Best for: small teams and side projects that want a free EU-run plan with unlimited users and projects.
• Price: Hobby is free with 100,000 monitoring events a month, which Phare puts at about 5 monitors. Scale costs €5 a month excl. taxes with 500,000 events and 20 SMS or voice alerts, then €0.00001 per extra event and €0.10 per extra SMS or voice alert.
• What it lacks: SMS and voice alerts on the free plan. Once usage passes the quota plus a 10% buffer, monitoring pauses until the next billing period.

3. updown.io

A monitoring service made in Paris since 2012 and, in its own words, built by one person. It checks HTTP, TCP and ICMP, watches cron jobs, warns about expiring certificates and domains, and publishes status pages. Checks run every 15 seconds up to once an hour, over IPv4 and IPv6, and an outage must be seen from at least two locations.

• Best for: developers who want to pay only for the checks they run, with no subscription.
• Price: prepaid credits, where 1 credit is 1 check. A €5 pack holds 200,000 requests and larger packs cost less per request, up to €500 for 60 million, all excl. VAT.
• What it lacks: a stated location for stored data. Most of its 10 probe nodes are outside Europe.

4. Hyperping

A French company, Hyperping SAS, whose address is on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Beyond uptime checks it offers browser checks with Playwright, cron and SSL monitoring, on-call with escalation policies, incident management, status pages and log search. Its security page says customer data sits in DigitalOcean's Frankfurt data centre, while probes run on DigitalOcean, AWS and Scaleway across 18 regions.

• Best for: startups that want monitoring, on-call and a branded status page from one vendor.
• Price: free for 20 monitors with 5-minute checks. Essentials is $24 a month billed yearly for 50 monitors and 3 seats, Pro is $74 and Business $249.
• What it lacks: its own SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification, which its security page says it doesn't hold yet. The main host is a US-based cloud.

5. UptimeRobot

UptimeRobot is run by UptimeRobot s. r. o., registered in Bratislava, Slovakia, and offers a DPA covering the GDPR. It covers website, keyword, ping, port, cron, API, DNS and SSL checks, plus status pages.

• Best for: personal and commercial projects that want many free monitors.
• Price: free for 50 monitors at a 5-minute interval. Solo costs €10 a month, or €9 a month billed yearly, for 10 monitors. Team is €41 a month, or €35 yearly, for 100 monitors and 3 seats.
• What it lacks: EU-only hosting. Its privacy policy names Limestone Networks, Amazon Web Services and DigitalOcean for sending checks and storing data, Hetzner for monitoring infrastructure and status pages, and Vercel for the dashboard.

6. Uptime Kuma, self-hosted

Uptime Kuma is a free, MIT-licensed monitor you install with Docker. It checks HTTP, keywords, JSON responses, TCP, ping, DNS records, WebSockets and Docker containers at intervals down to 20 seconds, sends alerts through more than 90 notification services, and serves several status pages. Its data lives in a local directory or volume, and NFS isn't supported.

• Best for: teams that want every check result on a server they choose.
• Price: no licence fee, only the server. A small Hetzner cloud server is listed at €5.49 a month excl. VAT in Helsinki or €6.49 in Falkenstein and Nuremberg, but on 10 November 2026 Hetzner showed its cheapest plans as unavailable to order.
• What it lacks: checks from more than one place unless you run several copies, and someone to patch and back it up. If that server fails, your alerts fail with it.

7. Eurobase health checks

Eurobase is a hosting platform, not an uptime service, so it's a partial answer here. For apps that run as containers, a deployment only goes live after its health path answers a GET with 2xx or 3xx; if it doesn't, the previous deployment keeps serving. While an instance runs, the platform requests the health path every 30 seconds and stops sending it traffic after 3 failures in a row. Each project also has a Logs page, which EU log management covers.

• Best for: keeping a broken release away from users on apps you already host on Eurobase.
• Price: included in every plan, from Free to €10 or €20 a month + VAT. Nothing is billed by usage today: past a limit, new work is refused, apps on V8 isolates and Functions pause until the monthly reset, and containers and static sites go on serving.
• What it lacks: the docs don't describe outside checks, down alerts or a public status page, so pair it with one of the tools above.

How to choose

1. You want an EU company and EU-stored data with no setup: Oh Dear, or Phare if you need a free plan.
2. You monitor a few endpoints and hate subscriptions: updown.io credits.
3. You also need on-call and a status page: Hyperping or Oh Dear.
4. You need dozens of free monitors and accept US-run infrastructure: UptimeRobot.
5. You need full control: Uptime Kuma on a European VM, watched by a second monitor.

Frequently asked questions

Is UptimeRobot an EU company?

Yes. Its legal documents name UptimeRobot s. r. o. in Bratislava, Slovakia. Its privacy policy also lists American providers such as Amazon Web Services and DigitalOcean for sending checks and storing data, so the company is in the EU but much of the infrastructure isn't run by EU firms.

Is Better Stack or StatusCake based in the EU?

No. Better Stack is run by Better Stack, Inc., a Delaware corporation, though it lets you keep data in a German region. European alternatives to Better Stack covers its log side. StatusCake is operated by TrafficCake Limited, registered in England and Wales, which is outside the EU.

Do I need a DPA for an uptime monitor?

Usually, yes. A monitor stores names, email addresses, alert phone numbers and the URLs you watch. Oh Dear, updown.io, Phare and UptimeRobot all publish a DPA. The GDPR hosting checklist lists what else to ask a vendor.

How often should an uptime check run?

Every minute is a common choice for production, which Oh Dear uses and most paid plans allow. A 5-minute check, typical on free plans, can miss short outages entirely.

Sources

• Oh Dear and Oh Dear pricing
• Phare and Phare pricing
• updown.io and updown.io about and monitoring nodes
• Hyperping pricing, Hyperping security and Hyperping about
• UptimeRobot pricing, UptimeRobot terms, UptimeRobot privacy policy and UptimeRobot DPA
• Uptime Kuma README on GitHub
• Better Stack data regions changelog and Better Stack terms
• StatusCake about and StatusCake privacy policy
• Hetzner cloud pricing
• Eurobase containers: port and health path, Eurobase pricing and Eurobase subprocessors