About
PingBoard is open-source uptime monitoring, built for developers — self-hosted in one container, unlimited and free, forever.
Why it exists
Uptime monitoring is a solved problem that's somehow still expensive. The hosted tools charge per monitor, per status page, per seat — the meter runs on things that cost them nearly nothing. The serious self-hosted options ask you to run a small datacenter: an app server, a database, a cache, a queue, four containers before you've checked a single URL. And the lightweight classics work, but their interfaces haven't moved in a decade.
PingBoard is the boring middle: a monitor you'd actually enjoy opening, running as one container on the box you already have. Watch your whole stack — endpoints, certificates, domains, cron jobs — from a single screen. No account, no limits, no lock-in. Your monitoring, your data, your box.
Principles
Self-host means unlimited
No per-monitor pricing, no seat plans, no feature gates. Every monitor type, every channel, every status page — included, forever, on hardware you already own.
Setup is the product
One container, one volume, one port. If a feature adds friction between `docker run` and the first check, it doesn’t ship. The target is under a minute, and the whole product is judged against it.
Boring technology, on purpose
A Bun server, an embedded SQLite database, Server-Sent Events, an in-process scheduler. No Redis, no queue, no external services to babysit at 2am — and backups are copying one file.
The UI is the only configuration
No YAML, no config files to reconcile, no CLI for daily operations. If you can’t do it from the dashboard, it’s a bug in the dashboard.
Who builds it
PingBoard is built by Steiner&Co. and released under the MIT license — every line of it, including the code a future hosted version will run on. The roadmap is public, the issues are public, and contributions are welcome.