Freshping alternative: Vigil
Freshping is gone, so this is less a comparison than a migration guide. Vigil offers the same simple HTTP checks with a 1-minute interval on paid plans, a status page, and a Free plan that never expires, plus the server, log and API monitoring Freshping never had. The catch: Vigil Free is 10 monitors, not 50.
Why people look for a Freshping alternative
Freshping pricing September 2026
- Discontinued. Free accounts were disabled on March 6, 2026; paid subscriptions did not renew after that date; all data was deleted about 90 days later.
- Before shutdown its free plan was famous for 50 checks at 1-minute intervals, multiple status pages and a global set of probe locations.
- Freshworks offers no replacement product.
Source: as of September 2026, from Freshping's deprecation FAQ at support.freshping.io. Vendors change prices; the Freshping site is authoritative.
Vigil pricing
- Free: 10 monitors, 1 server, 1 status page, 7 days of history, Telegram/Slack/Discord alerts. Free forever.
- Pro $10/month: 100 monitors at 1-minute intervals, 5 servers, 5 seats, 5 status pages with custom domain, password and white-label, 1M log lines, 3 Kubernetes clusters, RUM, 100 AI analyses. 10-day trial, no card.
- Enterprise $25/month: 500 monitors, 50 servers, unlimited seats, SSO, SLOs, private locations, 1-year history. 30-day trial.
- Self-hosted $49/month per instance on your own server or air-gapped network.
- Add-ons from $2: +25 monitors, +5 servers ($3), +5 seats, +5 status pages, +1M log lines.
Flat monthly prices, no per-host, per-GB or per-run meters. Full plan matrix.
Feature and price comparison
✓ included · ~ partial or paid add-on · ✕ not offered. Vigil figures are for the $10 Pro plan unless stated.
| Freshping | Vigil | |
|---|---|---|
| Uptime / API monitors and fastest interval | ✕ Shut down March 2026. Was 50 checks at 1 minute on the free plan | ✓ 10 Free / 100 Pro / 500 Enterprise. 1-minute checks on paid plans, 11 monitor types (uptime, API assertions, multi-step flows, heartbeats, TCP, domain/DNS, app health, dependency, change, price, keyword) |
| Servers (infrastructure agent) | ✕ Never offered | ✓ 1 / 5 / 50 servers included. Single-file agent for Linux and macOS: CPU, memory, disks, network, processes, services, Docker, packages, vulnerabilities, disk forecasts |
| Logs | ✕ Never offered | ✓ 100k / 1M / 5M lines included. File and journald shipping, full-text search, live tail, log-alert rules |
| APM / traces | ✕ Never offered | ~ Endpoint latency and 5xx rates, request traces and a service map through the agent's Python and Node SDKs. Not a full APM: no profiling, no distributed tracing across other languages |
| Kubernetes | ✕ Never offered | ✓ 3 clusters on Pro, unlimited on Enterprise. DaemonSet manifest; incidents for CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, NotReady, pressure |
| Real User Monitoring | ✕ Never offered | ✓ Web Vitals p75, page views, JS errors. 1 site Free, 5 sites / 500k views Pro, 50 sites / 5M views Enterprise |
| Status pages: private, custom domain, white-label | ✕ Public status pages only; gone with the service | ✓ Private by default, password or private-link sharing, custom domain with automatic HTTPS, white-label and custom CSS on Pro. 1 / 5 / 50 pages |
| Team seats | ✕ Gone | ✓ 1 Free, 5 Pro, unlimited Enterprise. Owner / admin / member / viewer roles, +5 seats for $2 |
| Alert channels (incl. Telegram) | ✕ Email, Slack, webhooks, SMS on paid; gone | ✓ Telegram, Slack, Discord, Teams, Google Chat, Matrix, ntfy, Gotify, Pushover, webhooks (HMAC, templates), email. Tickets to PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira, ServiceNow, Zendesk on paid plans. No SMS or phone calls |
| Self-hosted option | ✕ Never offered | ✓ Full product on your server or air-gapped network, $49/month per instance, one-line installer, signed releases |
| AI incident analysis | ✕ Never offered | ✓ One-click root cause, fix and postmortem draft from the incident's evidence. 5 / 100 / 500 analyses a month |
| Small team: 3 servers, 50 monitors, 5 people | Not available. Vigil Free covers 10 monitors; Vigil Pro covers 100 monitors, 5 servers and 5 seats for $10/month | ✓ $10/month on Pro (5 servers, 100 monitors, 5 seats included) |
Small-team estimate uses public list prices and the cheapest tier that covers 3 servers, 50 monitors at 1-minute intervals and 5 people. Where a vendor meters by run, GB or hour we show the arithmetic so you can redo it with your own numbers.
What Freshping does well
- The free tier was the most generous in the industry: 50 checks every minute, for nothing.
- Simple, clean, no configuration to speak of.
Where Vigil is ahead
- It no longer exists. Any monitors still configured there stopped in March 2026.
- It never did servers, logs, API assertions or private status pages, so most teams need more than a straight swap anyway.
When to pick Freshping instead
You cannot. Freshping no longer accepts logins. If a free 50-monitor tier is your only requirement, UptimeRobot's free plan (50 monitors at 5 minutes) is the closest match; Vigil Free is smaller at 10 monitors but includes a server agent, logs, a private status page and chat alerts.
What Vigil does not do
- No browser / Playwright checks: Vigil scripts APIs, not clicks in a real browser.
- No SMS or phone-call alerting; alerts go to chat apps, push services, email, webhooks and ticketing tools.
- No on-call rotations or schedules: escalation policies and acknowledgements only.
- APM covers Python and Node apps on hosts running the agent; it is not a substitute for a full APM suite.
- Checks run from Vigil's servers plus private locations you host; there is no menu of dozens of public regions.
Moving from Freshping to Vigil
1. Export what you have
List your Freshping monitors (their API or UI export). You need a name, URL or host, interval and the expected status or keyword for each.
2. Apply as code
Write them as Vigil's YAML and apply with PUT /api/v1/config; the same endpoint exports everything back, so monitors can live in git. Or create them one by one through the REST API (monitors, incidents, maintenance, deploy markers).
3. Reconnect alerts
Add Telegram, Slack, Discord, Teams, ntfy, Pushover, email or webhook channels; set escalation to a second channel set. Point your cron jobs at the new heartbeat URLs and install the server agent with one command.
Run both side by side during the trial: Vigil's alert ingestion accepts Alertmanager and Grafana-style webhooks, so existing alerts can appear on a Vigil status page while you move over.
Frequently asked
Is Freshping really shut down?
Yes. Freshworks announced the deprecation, disabled free accounts on March 6, 2026, stopped renewing paid plans after that date and deleted data about 90 days later. There is no successor product from Freshworks.
Does Vigil have a free plan like Freshping's?
Vigil Free has 10 monitors of any type at 10-minute intervals, 1 server with the agent, 100k log lines, 1 private status page, Telegram/Slack/Discord/webhook alerts and 5 AI incident analyses a month. It never expires. The 10-day Pro trial needs no card.
How do I recreate my Freshping checks in Vigil?
Write them as a YAML list (name, url, interval, expected status) and apply with PUT /api/v1/config on a paid plan, or add them one by one in the dashboard. A monitor takes about 20 seconds to create.
Can Vigil replace Freshping's public status page?
Yes. Vigil status pages support groups, latency charts, custom domains with automatic HTTPS, subscribers and badges. They are private by default; flip a page to public if that is what you had.
Ready to leave Freshping?
Start free: 10-day Pro trial, no card. Everything you set up stays on the Free plan when the trial ends.
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