Freshping Shut Down — What Now?

Freshworks permanently shut down Freshping on March 6, 2026 as part of a company-wide portfolio simplification. The service that monitored over 55,000 URLs for 20,000+ businesses is gone, with no replacement product from Freshworks. All data will be permanently deleted around June 4, 2026.

What Happened

Freshworks decided to focus on Freshdesk and Freshservice, dropping several smaller products including Freshping. Free accounts were disabled on March 6. Paid subscriptions won't renew. Freshworks doesn't recommend a specific replacement—they simply suggest users "explore alternative monitoring solutions."

If you still have access to your account, you can export your data via the Freshping dashboard (XML export, delivered within 48 hours) or via the REST API. Free plan users have until approximately June 4 before everything is deleted. Paid plan users get 90 days after their subscription end date.

What Freshping Offered

Freshping was popular because of its generous free tier: 50 monitors with 1-minute check intervals, multi-location checks, basic status pages, and email/Slack alerts. For a lot of small businesses and solo developers, it was good enough that they never needed anything else.

The flip side: Freshping had no security scanning, no false positive prevention beyond basic retries, no maintenance windows, and limited integrations. If a single check location had a network blip, you got paged.

What We Built Differently

At InternetSecure, uptime monitoring is one piece of a larger platform. Here's what's different from what Freshping offered:

• Multi-node consensus — Multiple global nodes must independently confirm downtime before an alert fires. No more false positives from a single location having issues.
• Security scanning built in — SSL/TLS validation, security headers, DNSSEC, DMARC, DKIM, and compliance framework mapping all run alongside your uptime checks.
• Cloudflare offline pages — When your site goes down, a branded offline page is auto-deployed on your domain via Cloudflare Workers. No separate status page to maintain.
• 5 integrations — Email, Slack, JIRA, Linear, and Microsoft Teams. Alerts delivered in ~5 seconds.
• Maintenance windows — Suppress alerts during scheduled downtime with day-of-week and time range support.
• Incident timelines — Full records with start/end times, duration, cause, affected nodes, and recovery confirmation.

The honest trade-off: Freshping gave away 50 free monitors. Our free tier includes 1 monitor—but that one monitor is checked from every global node every minute with full consensus verification. The Plus plan starts at $5/month for 10 monitors if you need more.

How to Migrate

We put together a detailed migration guide that walks through exporting your Freshping data and setting up monitors on InternetSecure step by step. Each monitor takes about 30 seconds to configure. If you're migrating a large number of monitors, open a support ticket and we'll help you bulk-add them.

For a full feature-by-feature comparison of what Freshping offered versus what InternetSecure provides, see our Freshping alternative page.