hostnag vs Hyperping

Hyperping is an uptime monitor with polished status pages and incident management: HTTP, keyword, port, ping and DNS checks from 18 locations, cron monitoring, Playwright browser checks and SSL monitoring on paid plans. One timeline of what will break (certificates, domains, mail setup) and what is broken, with the mail records and blocklists that no uptime check reads.

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Hyperping read from its public documentation on 2026-09-17. Tell us if it changed.

What breaks, and whether Hyperping or hostnag covers it
What breaks	Hyperping	hostnag
A host goes downwebsite, API, VPN, mail, gateway	YesHTTP, keyword, TCP/UDP port, ping and DNS checks, retried from several locations before an alert.	Yes
Hyperping: HTTP, keyword, TCP/UDP port, ping and DNS checks, retried from several locations before an alert.
A certificate expiresdays-before thresholds, daily inside the last window	YesAlerts 30 days before a certificate expires, on paid plans.	Yes
Hyperping: Alerts 30 days before a certificate expires, on paid plans.
A domain lapsesregistration expiry from RDAP	UnknownThe SSL and uptime pages do not mention domain registration expiry.	Yes
Hyperping: The SSL and uptime pages do not mention domain registration expiry.
A certificate is swappedfingerprint changed, wrong host, chain not trusted	PartlyCommon name mismatches, self-signed certificates and incomplete chains are detected; nothing documents alerting when the certificate is replaced.	Yes
Hyperping: Common name mismatches, self-signed certificates and incomplete chains are detected; nothing documents alerting when the certificate is replaced.
A DNS record driftsexpected answer missing or changed	UnknownDNS checks "verify they resolve correctly"; nothing documents comparing the answer with an expected value.	Yes
Hyperping: DNS checks "verify they resolve correctly"; nothing documents comparing the answer with an expected value.
An ISP link dropsthe public address from several locations, by ping or a TCP port, confirmed by a ping from inside the site	UnknownPing checks watch a public address from outside; nothing documents an inside confirmation for an office or ISP link.	Yesoutside and inside
Hyperping: Ping checks watch a public address from outside; nothing documents an inside confirmation for an office or ISP link.hostnag: outside and inside
Mail stops being deliveredMX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and blocklists, at the expiry cadence of your plan	UnknownPort checks reach a mail server; nothing documents SPF, DKIM, DMARC or blocklist checks.	Yes
Hyperping: Port checks reach a mail server; nothing documents SPF, DKIM, DMARC or blocklist checks.
Someone issues a certificate for your domainnew certificates in the transparency logs, daily	UnknownNo certificate transparency log watch is documented.	Yes
Hyperping: No certificate transparency log watch is documented.
A scheduled job stops runningcron, backups, workers: a heartbeat that goes quiet	YesCron monitoring listens for periodic pings and alerts when one is missed, on Essentials and above.	Yes
Hyperping: Cron monitoring listens for periodic pings and alerts when one is missed, on Essentials and above.
Your nameservers or registrar changenameservers, registrar, DNSSEC, certificate issuer, DNS answers, redirect targets	UnknownNothing documents watching nameservers, a registrar, DNSSEC or redirect targets.	Yes
Hyperping: Nothing documents watching nameservers, a registrar, DNSSEC or redirect targets.
A vendor you depend on has an incidenttheir status page read for an outage or degraded state, the incident named	UnknownNothing documents reading a vendor's status page.	Yesread from their own status page
Hyperping: Nothing documents reading a vendor's status page.hostnag: read from their own status page

UNKNOWN means their documentation did not say either way on the day we read it. PARTLY is covered with a limit noted in the cell.

What Hyperping has that we don't

Incident management with on-call scheduling and escalation policies on every paid plan.
Playwright browser checks for multi-step flows, and 20-second checks on Business.
Status pages with several per plan, plus a Terraform provider, a Python SDK and a Prometheus exporter.

Switching

01List your monitors from the Hyperping API; each is one row.
02Put them in a CSV with at least the columns type and target (name, interval, port, keyword, expected_status and record_type are optional; the import dialog links a template) and upload it in the import dialog.
03HTTP and keyword monitors become http (keyword in its column), port monitors tcp, DNS monitors dns with their record_type; cron monitors become heartbeats with a new hostnag ping URL to point the job at.
04Ping (ICMP) monitors carry over as Ping monitors, run from hostnag's own probes.
05Browser checks have no counterpart in hostnag; watch the URL they exercise instead.
06Check intervals snap up to the nearest hostnag preset (1, 5, 15, 60, 360 or 1440 minutes).
07Monitors are created up to your plan's limit; the rest stay listed in the preview so nothing is lost silently.

Pricing

A free plan covers 20 monitors at 5-minute checks with one basic status page; Essentials is $24 a month billed yearly for 50 monitors at 30 seconds, Pro $74 for 100, Business $249 for 1,000 at 20 seconds, and Enterprise is custom.

Free

$0/ mo

For your own handful of hosts.

Monitors: 5
Groups: 1
Status pages: 1
Seats: 1
Every: 5min
Locations: 1
History: 30days
Channels: Email

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Pro

$19/ mo

For a team's sites, APIs and gateways.

Monitors: 50
Groups: 10
Status pages: 10
Seats: 5
Every: 1min
Locations: 3
History: 90days
Channels: Email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Webhook

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Business

$79/ mo

For many groups: clients, products or offices.

Monitors: 500
Groups: ∞
Status pages: ∞
Seats: 25
Every: 1min
Locations: 5
History: 365days
Channels: Email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Webhook, SMS, PagerDuty, Opsgenie

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