Deploy Uptime Kuma on a VPS
Immediately visualise the status of your services
VPS-1
From
£3.31
ex. VAT/month
£3.97 incl. VAT/month
Specifications:
2 vCores
4 GB RAM
40 GB SSD NVMe
Daily backup of the previous 24 hours
VPS-2
From
£6.29
ex. VAT/month
£7.55 incl. VAT/month
Specifications:
4 vCores
8 GB RAM
75 GB SSD NVMe
Daily backup of the previous 24 hours
VPS-3
From
£9.01
ex. VAT/month
£10.81 incl. VAT/month
Specifications:
6 vCores
12 GB RAM
100 GB SSD NVMe
Daily backup of the previous 24 hours
VPS-4
From
£17.34
ex. VAT/month
£20.81 incl. VAT/month
Specifications:
8 vCores
24 GB RAM
200 GB SSD NVMe
Daily backup of the previous 24 hours
A controllable Docker architecture for Uptime Kuma
A VPS, or virtual private server, is a server space that you administer yourself, like a digital workshop reserved for your project. It can host Docker, a tool that launches applications in isolated containers, comparable to tidy boxes where each service has its own environment. With a Docker-compatible VPS, the installation of Uptime Kuma is done manually, step by step, according to your configuration. This monitoring application checks the availability of your sites, APIs or online services from a clear dashboard. To support you, guides are available on the official Uptime Kuma website. You thus keep control of your environment, while moving forward with reliable benchmarks.
Keep control of your self-hosted monitoring
Control your monitoring data
Self-hosted monitoring meets a simple need: observing your services without entrusting your metrics to an external platform. You decide who accesses the data, how long to keep the history and how to organise the views useful for operations. For a DevOps team or IT management, this control facilitates post-incident analysis and availability reviews.
Check your web services
With HTTP/HTTPS monitoring, you regularly check that a site, an API or a web service is responding as expected. Uptime Kuma also allows you to track a public page to confirm that the information displayed to users remains consistent with the actual state of the services. Each check helps to identify a degradation or an interruption more quickly.
Separate supervision and applications
Hosting on an OVHcloud VPS provides a clear foundation for this monitoring service. You benefit from global data centres, connectivity designed for continuous operation and backup options according to your needs. Your monitoring tool remains separate from your main applications, which reduces dependencies between what you are monitoring and the location from which you are observing. This decoupling provides a more reliable reading of incidents and simplifies operational decisions.
Operational benefits for reliable monitoring
Extend supervision to network services and public statuses
Supervise network ports
Beyond classic web checks, Uptime Kuma covers more precise scenarios. You can monitor TCP and UDP ports to verify that a network service is responding correctly on the right entry point. This is useful for tracking a database exposed in a controlled manner, an internal service accessible via VPN, an application endpoint or a resource identified by name. Monitoring then becomes closer to your actual architecture.
Publish readable statuses
Status pages play another role: they transform your metrics into readable communication. You can present the status of a group of services to an internal team, to clients or to partners, with a view adapted to the desired level of detail. This transparency avoids multiplying requests during an already identified incident.
Keep useful history
The VPS NVMe storage contributes to the responsiveness of the interface and to the retention of monitoring data. Depending on your volume of checks, you can organise the history over several months in order to observe trends, not just occasional outages. To accelerate reaction, an integration with Discord or other team channels can relay state changes to the right place. Your supervision becomes clearer, more shared and better integrated into operational habits.