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Free error tracking and uptime monitoring

Hear about crashes and downtime before your users tell you.

6 options. Free tiers, catches and prices checked by hand on 2026-10-27; each one links to its sources.

Where we’d start: Sentry. The standard for error tracking, with a free plan for one developer.

SentryFSL-1.1-ALv2Our pick

An error-tracking and performance-monitoring service for web and mobile apps.

Best for: Catching and debugging frontend and backend errors with stack traces. Skip it if: Several people need access and the budget is $0.

Lovable connector; official hosted MCP mcp.sentry.dev (OAuth), usable on the free plan.

Developer

  • 1 user
  • 5,000 errors, 5M tracing spans, 50 session replays per month
  • 5 GB logs, 1 cron monitor, 1 uptime monitor
  • 30-day lookback

Only one user, so adding a teammate means the paid Team plan.

Team $26/mo billed yearly ($29 monthly): unlimited users, 50k errors

Checked 2026-10-27: sentry.io, mcp.sentry.dev, sentry.io

AxiomService

A cloud service for storing and querying logs, traces and events.

Best for: Storing lots of logs and events cheaply and querying them fast. Skip it if: You want a ready-made uptime or error-tracking tool rather than a log store.

Official hosted MCP mcp.axiom.co (OAuth, hosted in the US); the old local mcp-server-axiom repo is archived.

Personal

  • 500 GB/month data loading (ingest)
  • 30-day retention, 25 GB storage
  • 10 GB-hours/month query compute

Retention is fixed at 30 days and query compute is capped at 10 GB-hours a month.

Axiom Cloud $25/mo + usage: 1 TB loading, 100 GB-hours queries

Checked 2026-10-27: axiom.co, axiom.co

Grafana CloudAGPL-3.0

A hosted observability platform for metrics, logs, traces and dashboards built on open-source Grafana.

Best for: Teams wanting dashboards, metrics, logs, traces and synthetic checks on open standards. Skip it if: You want a simple single-purpose tool for a one-person app.

Official MCP server github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana.

Free

  • 10k active metric series; 50 GB each of logs, traces and profiles per month
  • 14-day retention
  • 3 active users
  • 100k synthetic API checks + 10k browser checks/month; 50k frontend sessions

Data is kept only 14 days and active users are capped at 3.

Pro $19/mo + usage (30-day retention)

Checked 2026-10-27: grafana.com, github.com

Uptime KumaMIT

A free, self-hosted uptime monitoring tool with alerts and status pages.

Best for: Free, self-hosted uptime monitoring with many alert channels. Skip it if: You don’t want to run your own monitoring server.

No official MCP server found.

Self-hosted (free)

  • HTTP, TCP, ping, DNS, keyword, Docker and push monitors
  • Checks as often as every 20 seconds
  • 90+ notification services; multiple status pages

You host, update and back it up yourself, and it should run on a different server than the app it watches.

Free; you pay only for the server

Checked 2026-10-27: github.com

UptimeRobotService

A website and API uptime monitoring service with alerts and status pages.

Best for: Generous free uptime checks for a handful of sites and APIs. Skip it if: You need checks more often than every 5 minutes for free.

Official hosted MCP (mcp.uptimerobot.com, OAuth or read-only API key); no delete operations over MCP.

Free

  • 50 monitors at 5-minute intervals
  • 1 basic status page on an UptimeRobot URL
  • 5 integrations; no SMS/voice credits
  • 3 months of data retention

The pricing page still pitches Free as 'good for hobby and non-profit projects’, although the terms updated May 26, 2026 say it 'is available for any use, including commercial’.

Solo $9/mo billed yearly: 10 monitors at 60-second checks, custom-domain status pages

Checked 2026-10-27: uptimerobot.com, uptimerobot.com, help.uptimerobot.com

Better StackService

An uptime monitoring, status page, logging and incident-alerting platform.

Best for: Uptime checks, a status page and logs in one dashboard. Skip it if: You need logs kept longer than 3 days for free.

Official remote MCP server (OAuth) for monitors, heartbeats and log queries.

Free

  • 10 monitors and heartbeats, checked every 3 minutes
  • 1 status page; Slack and email alerts
  • 3 GB logs and 3 GB traces kept 3 days; 30 GB metrics
  • 100,000 exceptions/month

The pricing page labels the free tier 'Free for personal projects’, and phone-call alerts are paid features.

Telemetry Nano $25/mo billed yearly (EU region; $38 US); Responder seat $29/mo yearly

Checked 2026-10-27: betterstack.com, betterstack.com, betterstack.com