Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Create Your Own Domain's Monitoring Page with Free Freshping Services

11/10/2021 Cloud

Freshping ( a product from Freshworks) provides a Reliable & FREE FOREVER uptime and performance monitoring tool for startups, SMB's, Bloggers, Managed Service providers (MSPs) and DevOps communities. So far, it is most generous free service provider in the market. It also provides a free page which you can customized with your own domain to provide the monitor status to public.

In this post, I am going to show you how to register, add monitor and set up your own domain for your monitor status page.

Demo site: http://monitor.51sec.eu.org

Main features:

[June 2024] no further free services provisioning.

50 Monitors, 1-minute interval, Public status pages, Multi-user login (30 users), Slack/SMS/Email alerts - FREE FOREVER

Cons:

Free not support SSL well.

Free forever plan : SPROUT featuers

For login to previous created Freshping service, you iwll need to login following sites:

https://johnyanca.freshping.io/
https://johnyanca.myfreshworks.com/

Existing free account is still valid, but no more support based on banner notificaiton.

Register

Site: https://www.freshworks.com/website-monitoring/

You will get a free subdomain from freshping.io. If you do not have your own domain, this can be used to show your monitor status to public. Most situation, it is enough.

You will need a domain name to proceed to next step then log in with your username / password, or a google account.

Login and Add Check

You can add 50 checks using http/https, web sockets, ping, tcp, udp or DNS

Create Status Page

The steps are very straightforward. You can create multiple public access page to show certain sites' status.

Use Your Own Domain

You will have two cname verification information to be set in your domain management provider site. In my case, I am using cloudflare as an example to show you how to add those records。