Freshping was Freshworks' free-tier-friendly uptime monitoring product, and it no longer exists: Freshworks disabled free accounts on 6 March 2026 and stopped renewing paid subscriptions from the same date. If you are here for a replacement, this page covers what to migrate and what to check in whatever you move to.
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| Criteria | NorthDuty | Freshping |
|---|---|---|
| Core focus | Website health and journeys | Freshping was Freshworks' uptime-monitoring product; its current public product URL redirects to the Freshworks homepage |
| Best for | Business-critical websites with silent-failure risk | Existing users should consult the still-available Freshping support portal or Freshworks about current product availability and migration options |
| Page-health signals | SSL, DNS, resources, JS errors, API calls, blank pages, timing | The current Freshworks product catalog does not list Freshping, so current monitoring capabilities cannot be verified from an active product page |
| Journey monitoring | AI-suggested and plain-text flows | No currently marketed Freshping journey-monitoring feature could be verified from Freshworks' official product catalog |
Freshworks deprecated Freshping. On its own support site the dates are explicit: free accounts were disabled on 6 March 2026, paid subscriptions renewing on or after that date were not processed, and existing paid plans ran to their natural expiry. Data was kept for 90 days after an account was disabled and then permanently deleted — 4 June 2026 for free accounts.
Freshworks advised users to export their data (XML and CSV, or via the API) and move to another monitoring service. If you are searching for a Freshping alternative, this is not a comparison between two live products: it is a migration.
Whatever tool you choose, the order of work is the same.
If you can still reach an account, export the monitor list, incident history and status-page configuration. If the retention window has passed, rebuild from your own records — usually a list of URLs and who gets alerted.
Recreate the URL checks and get alerting working before anything else, so you are covered while you finish the move.
Email recipients, Slack channels and any webhooks need to be set up again, and old Freshping webhook endpoints will be dead. Send a test alert for each channel.
If customers or clients had a Freshping status-page URL, publish the new one and update every place that link appears — docs, footers, support macros, contracts.
This is the moment to add the checks a plain uptime tool could not run: checkout, login and form journeys, re-checks after deploys, and SSL and DNS expiry.
Freshping was popular because the free tier was generous. These are the things worth comparing now, rather than matching the old feature list exactly.
| What Freshping gave you | What to check in a replacement | NorthDuty |
|---|---|---|
| Uptime checks on many URLs | How many checks, at what interval, on the free or entry plan | Health checks every 5 minutes on Free and on Starter ($29/mo) |
| Email and Slack alerts | Whether all channels are on the entry plan or held back for higher tiers | Email on free; all channels (Slack, SMS and more) from Starter |
| A public status page | Whether a status page is included and can use your own domain | Included |
| Nothing beyond availability | Whether the tool can verify a checkout, login or form actually works | Journeys in a real browser, with the failing step named |
| A product that could be discontinued | Whether monitoring is the vendor's main business or a side product | Monitoring is the whole product |
The easy move is to swap one uptime checker for another and be done in twenty minutes. That restores what you had, which was a tool that told you when a URL stopped responding.
It is worth asking whether that was ever the failure that hurt. Most sites break while still returning 200: a checkout that fails at payment, a form that stops sending, a layout that collapses after an update. A like-for-like swap leaves all of that uncovered, and you are already doing the migration work.
NorthDuty's health check captures availability plus SSL, DNS, redirects, response timing, Core Web Vitals, blank pages, broken resources, JavaScript errors, and browser-side API calls.
User journeys add evidence for multi-step failures, with a screenshot of the step that broke.
Start from the cost of a silent website failure.
Every business-critical site needs to know when core pages are unavailable.
Monitor rendering, resources, JS, API calls, SSL, DNS, and timing.
Track SSL certificate and domain expiry, and DNS changes, so a missed renewal never takes the site down.
Verify the flows that move visitors toward revenue, support, or account access.
Review the product pages and supporting content that explain the monitoring depth behind the comparison.
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Monitor uptime every 5 minutes by default with HTTP, SSL, DNS, blank-page detection, broken resources, JavaScript errors, and API call tracking.
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Learn how NorthDuty combines editable user journeys and website health checks in one website monitoring project.
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NorthDuty runs your checkout, signup, login and form flows in a real browser on a schedule and reports the exact step that failed, with a screenshot.
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Use this 41-point website monitoring checklist to cover uptime, SSL, DNS, forms, checkout, journeys, alerts, launch checks, and incident response.
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How to monitor website uptime properly: check intervals, locations, false alarms — and the failures that return HTTP 200 so uptime checks never see them.
Read How to Monitor Website UptimePricing
NorthDuty plans are sized by how many checkout, signup and login journeys you monitor: Free, $29 Starter, $79 Pro, $199 Business. 7-day trial, no card.
Compare pricing plansAnswers to common buying questions for teams comparing monitoring options.
Yes. Freshworks deprecated Freshping: free accounts were disabled on 6 March 2026, paid subscriptions were not renewed from that date, and account data was deleted after a 90-day retention window. Freshworks told users to export their data and migrate to another monitoring service.
Freshworks retained data for 90 days after an account was disabled and then deleted it permanently — for free accounts that window ended on 4 June 2026. Exports were offered in XML and CSV and through the API while accounts were still reachable.
That depends on how much you need. For uptime only, several tools have free tiers with generous monitor counts. If you also want to know that checkout, login or a form still works, look for a free plan that includes at least one real-browser journey — NorthDuty's free plan runs one journey daily alongside 5-minute health checks.
For a handful of URL checks, under an hour: recreate the checks, reconnect alert channels, publish a new status page and update the links to it. The part teams forget is the old status-page URL in documentation, email footers and support macros.
NorthDuty is a good fit when simple uptime monitoring is not enough and the team needs page health and journey evidence.
Yes. Website health checks include uptime and run every 5 minutes by default.
NorthDuty monitors rendered page health, resources, JavaScript errors, browser-side API calls, SSL, DNS, and user journeys.
Choose NorthDuty when you need monitoring for reachable-but-broken pages and flows, not only uptime.
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