Free uptime monitoring for social-impact projects
Fast 30-second checks, reliable alerting, and hosted status pages for initiatives trying to make the world slightly less terrible.
Made and hosted in the
European Union
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Uptime monitoring, status pages and incident management
Keep the technology behind your mission online with fast 30-second checks, reliable alerts, and hosted status pages.
Keep mission-critical civic and community technology online
Technology built to make the world slightly less terrible deserves rock-solid reliability. Track platforms, sensor dashboards, and tools under real conditions.
- Keep real-time sensor dashboards, air quality feeds, and open datasets available.
- Protect civic tools, public records search engines, and independent media archives.
- Ensure community mutual aid finders and resource locators stay reachable.
- Run 30-second uptime checks from independent European infrastructure.
A status page for when things go sideways
When community platforms or civic tools experience issues, clear communication prevents confusion. A hosted public status page keeps users informed with live updates and uptime history.
- Share live operational status across your public tools, portals, and endpoints.
- Communicate openly during service disruptions while technical fixes proceed.
- Provide timestamped progress notes and transparent post-mortem summaries.
- Host on your own custom domain with automatic SSL and zero complexity.
Incident triage and automated alerts
Handle unexpected outages with calm coordination. Get notified instantly when problems appear and keep your team in sync.
- Receive immediate alerts via Telegram, Discord, Slack, or email.
- Catch SSL certificate expirations before they block public access.
- Track incident response progress from first alert to final resolution.
- Collaborate with core organizers, maintainers, and volunteers without per-seat fees.
“Thanks to Phare for Good, Internews enjoys pro-bono uptime monitoring and AI tools that keep our sites resilient and efficient. This partnership powers the platforms that serve independent media and vulnerable communities, supporting access to reliable information around the world.”
Internews Europe
Industry: Media Support
Team size: 150-250
What's included?
Full access to core monitoring features with generous quotas and no credit card required.
- Uptime monitoring
- Checks every 30 seconds from independent European edge locations to spot downtime immediately.
- SSL certificate monitoring
- Automated TLS certificate checks that alert before certificates expire and cause an unnecessary outage.
- Alerts when something breaks
- Instant notifications via Discord, Slack, Telegram, email, and webhooks.
- Incident management
- Track outages, post updates, coordinate fixes, and keep a clean timeline without assembling spreadsheets at 2am.
- Status pages
- Host public status pages on your own custom domain with automatic SSL and subscriber feeds.
- Maintenance windows
- Schedule planned maintenance to avoid false alarms during upgrades and deployments.
- Unlimited members & projects
- Invite all your colleagues to contribute in unlimited projects, no per-seat surcharges.
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Phare-tastic feedback
They all came for a free uptime monitoring tool, they stayed for the superior platform, and the vibe.
We’ve been using Phare for months now, and the dev is actively working on improving the system! He responds to messages and even reached out to us when we didn’t know there was a problem. We’ve used lots of systems and by far this takes the cake and works perfect for what we need.
Amazing uptime management! Works automatically and notifies me via email.
Phare offers a nice status page that is incredibly easy to use. It’s free to play, no credit card required. Incident management has internal and external communication.
Phare can be described simply in two words: Absolutely amazing.
It’s a great product, I was able to participate in the beta and it’s really a great project, I’m very happy that we have a solution like that in Europe. Can’t wait to see what happens next.
I simply love it. The UI is very clean and clear. You only pay what you use. That is for every request that is made. You can even adjust the frequency for each monitor individually. However, for me the best feature is the well-documented API that makes it possible to embed phare.io into your existing infrastructure in no-time.
It has all the important features and its UI is just lovely!
I think Phare has a very clean and to the point interface and feature list. I use for my personal projects right now but I am considering it for work related things as well.
Nice UI, clear UX, custom domain, custom status page. I sign up and 5 minutes later I get : - 2FA secure auth - A nice status page on my own domain - Telegram & email alert working The product is simple and powerful, I love it. Bravo !
Checked many, many competitors, and Phare is fairly the best option to go with!
Super slick. Ridiculously simple to setup. Took me a minute to figure out where the badge was but otherwise this was setup in a blink of an eye.
Frequently asked questions
You could not find the answer to your question? Ask support.
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Is uptime monitoring free for social-impact projects?
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Yes. Initiatives built for positive social, environmental, or civic impact qualify for free monitoring, status pages, alerts, and incident management.
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What is included in Phare for Good?
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You get 30-second uptime checks, multi-channel alerts, SSL tracking, incident management, and branded public status pages with generous quotas tailored to your project.
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Can social-impact projects get a free status page?
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Yes. Every approved project can publish a public status page on a custom domain with automatic SSL and subscriber updates.
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What can Phare monitor?
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Phare monitors websites, APIs, web applications, SSL certificates, HTTP and TCP endpoints, and servers with ICMP ping monitoring from multiple edge regions around the globe.
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How do I apply for Phare for Good?
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Send an email to support@phare.io with a link to your project and a quick note about the impact you are working toward. Applications are reviewed within 24 hours.
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Does my project qualify?
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If your project is working toward social good, civic improvement, environmental progress, or public benefit and isn't an ordinary commercial business, it likely qualifies. When in doubt, send an email to support@phare.io to ask.