Dumza watches everything that can quietly take your site down: websites, APIs, TCP ports, SSL certificates, domain renewals and cron jobs. One dashboard, one flat price, and an alert in your pocket within a minute of something breaking.
✓ 10 monitors free, no credit card·✓ Every monitor type on every plan·✓ Import your existing setup in one pass
An expired certificate takes a site off the internet just as completely as a crashed server, and a backup job that silently stopped running is worse than both. Every type below is on every plan, including Free.
GET, HEAD or POST against any URL, as often as every minute. Send custom headers or a request body, and check for a keyword the response has to contain.
Wrong status code, timeout, or a 200 that's missing the keyword you expected
The certificate on any hostname, checked daily. Dumza reads the real expiry date from the live handshake rather than trusting a renewal calendar.
Certificate expiring soon, already expired, or a broken chain
Registration dates for the domains you own. The failure nobody monitors, because it happens once every few years and takes everything down at once.
Registration approaching its renewal date, well before the grace period
Scheduled jobs that should check in on a timetable. Your backup, your billing run, your nightly export. Add one line to the end of the script and Dumza expects the ping.
The job didn't call in inside its window, so it never ran or it died halfway
A raw connection to any host and port. Databases, mail servers, game servers, SSH, message brokers, anything that answers on a socket but doesn't speak HTTP.
Connection refused, or the handshake takes longer than your timeout
Part of the website check rather than a separate monitor, and worth calling out. A page that returns 200 while rendering a stack trace is still broken, and only a keyword check finds it.
Expected text missing from the response, or forbidden text present in it
Every type counts as one monitor against your plan. No separate heartbeat allowance, no add-on packs, no per-type pricing.
If you have one side project, most free tiers are fine. Dumza is for the point where you're responsible for a list, and the list has other people's money on it.
Forty client sites means forty domains, forty certificates and forty chances to find out from an angry email. Dumza charges by plan, not per site or per person, so adding a client costs nothing until you outgrow the tier.
Your API, your auth service, your webhook receiver, your database port and the nightly job that reconciles billing. One place to see all of it, without adopting an incident platform to get there.
Start on Free and stay there as long as it fits. Every monitor type and all four alert channels are included, so the free plan is a smaller version of the product rather than a demo of it.
Detection is the easy half. The part that decides whether you keep a monitoring tool is what happens in the ninety seconds after.
Email, HMAC-signed webhooks, Telegram and Slack. Connect Telegram or Slack once on your account and reuse it on every monitor. A Telegram alert is a push notification on your phone with no credit pack behind it.
Free plan includedA single failed request is usually a network blip, not an outage. An incident opens after a set number of consecutive failures, closes on recovery with the duration logged, and acknowledging it stops the re-alerts entirely.
A live page on a custom slug with your logo and auto-generated incident history. Subscribers are emailed when a monitor drops and again when it recovers. Embed a compact version on your own site with one snippet.
Free plan includedLatency history with our own worker outages marked on the chart, so a gap in Dumza's infrastructure never gets recorded as your downtime. Uptime percentages sit next to it for the trend.
Custom request headers for authenticated endpoints, a request body for POST checks, the status code you actually expect rather than any 2xx, and your own timeout. Stored credentials are encrypted at rest.
Drop in an Uptime Kuma backup or a spreadsheet exported from whatever you use now. An editable preview lets you fix bad rows before anything is created, and the file is parsed in your browser.
Free plan includedThe reason people stay on a tool they have outgrown is usually the afternoon of re-typing URLs. Export what you have now, drop the file in, and check the preview.
.json, straight from Settings → Backup → ExportMonitor types are close to a solved problem across this category. Where the tools differ is what happens to your invoice as you add people, sites and channels. That comparison is worth making explicit.
| How pricing works | Dumza | UptimeRobot | Better Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price for 1-minute checks | $7/mo, 20 monitors | ~$12–13/mo, 10 monitors | $29/mo per responder |
| Per-seat / per-responder fees | None ✓ | $15–19 per login seat | Every responder is a seat |
| Monitors sold in add-on packs | No, set by your plan | No, set by your plan | ~$21 per 50-monitor pack |
| Metered SMS / voice credits | No credits. Telegram push instead | One-time packs, per-country burn rate | Folded into the responder seat |
| Your bill is made of | The plan price. That's it | Plan + credits + seats | Responders + packs + add-ons |
| Product scope | Uptime, alerts, status pages | Monitoring suite, incidents, IT alerting | Incident and telemetry platform |
UptimeRobot figures read from uptimerobot.com/pricing on 9 Aug 2026 (annual billing; monthly runs higher). Better Stack figures from its published responder and add-on pricing, same date. Both change their plans regularly, so check their current pricing pages before you decide.
Every monitor type and every alert channel is on every plan. What you're buying as you move up is how many things you watch and how often.
10 monitors of any type at 5-minute checks, two alert channels per monitor from email, webhook, Telegram and Slack, a public status page, and bulk import. Commercial use is included, and there is no card required to start.
No. Every monitor type is available on every plan and each one counts as a single monitor against your limit. There is no separate heartbeat allowance and no per-type surcharge.
Email, HMAC-signed webhooks, Telegram and Slack, all four on every plan. Webhooks also cover Discord and anything else that accepts an inbound hook. There is no SMS or phone call, and no plan to sell credit packs for them.
A single region in Europe today. If you need a check confirmed from several continents before it alerts, we are not the right tool yet, and we would rather tell you here than after you have moved your monitors.
No. Every plan is a single flat price for one account. We do not sell responder seats or login seats, so the price on the card is the whole bill.
Yes, and it costs nothing on any plan. Import an Uptime Kuma backup file, or a CSV or Excel export from whatever you use now. You review an editable preview before anything is created.
Not yet. Webhooks cover the outbound direction today, and a REST API for managing monitors is planned rather than shipped. We would rather say that than list it on a pricing card.
You keep your paid features until the end of the period you already paid for, then drop to Free automatically. No mid-cycle cutoff, no clawback.
Import your Kuma backup or a CSV, run Dumza alongside your current tool for a week, then switch. Start free, no card, commercial use included.