Comparisons

Great tools. Different questions.

We respect every tool on this page — we use several of them ourselves. But generic uptime monitors answer "is the host reachable?", while VPN operators need to know "does the tunnel actually carry traffic?". Here is how we compare, honestly.

Capability	Generic uptime tools	ExitProbe
Real VPN protocol handshakes		Yes
Exit IP verification (anti-pooling)		Yes
Per-protocol & per-probe incidents		Yes
Private probes you control		Yes
8 protocols incl. VLESS Reality & Hysteria 2		Yes

Self-hosted uptime monitor

ExitProbe vs Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma is a fantastic self-hosted status page and uptime checker. We run it ourselves for internal services. But it was built to answer "is this host reachable?", not "does this VPN tunnel actually carry traffic?"

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Hosted synthetic monitoring

ExitProbe vs UptimeRobot

UptimeRobot is one of the biggest names in hosted uptime monitoring, and for HTTP/ping/port checks it does the job well. VPN tunnels are simply outside what its check types can express.

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Premium observability suite

ExitProbe vs Better Stack

Better Stack (formerly Better Uptime) is a polished, premium monitoring and observability suite. It is genuinely great infrastructure software — aimed at SaaS and web workloads rather than VPN fleets.

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Dead-man’s-switch cron monitoring

ExitProbe vs Healthchecks.io

Healthchecks.io popularised the inverted model: your job pings them, and they alert when the pings stop. Brilliant for cron jobs — but it relies on your system being honest about its own health, which is exactly what fails during VPN outages.

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