What is Oh Dear?
Checks sites and servers every minute and alerts agencies and developers before their clients notice.
Who is Oh Dear best for?
Oh Dear is best for web agencies that watch client sites for outages, expiring certificates and broken links.
Agencies with many client sites
Sites group by client, each client gets a branded monthly report, and read-only access can be limited to their own sites.
More than uptime
One account checks uptime, certificates, broken links, mixed content, DNS records, domain expiry and Lighthouse scores.
Laravel and PHP apps
Application health checks read queues, the scheduler and disk space, and cron monitoring alerts when a job misses its ping.
Public status pages
Status pages update from your checks and can run on your own domain with your logo.
How much does Oh Dear cost?
Oh Dear has no free plan: after a 10-day free trial, plans run from €15 a month for 2 sites to €399 a month for 200, with every feature on every plan.
- 2 sites and servers
- Every check and feature, unlimited users
- Status pages and single sign-on included
- 5 sites and servers
- Same features as every plan
- 10 sites and servers
- Same features as every plan
- 25 sites and servers
- Same features as every plan
Larger plans are Agency (€149, 50 sites), Agency Plus (€199, 75), Portfolio (€249, 100), Portfolio Plus (€329, 150) and Scale (€399, 200) a month; Enterprise beyond 200 is quoted. Prices are in euros before VAT, and US dollar prices run from $17 for Solo to $439 for Scale. Paying yearly costs ten months' price. Every plan starts with a 10-day free trial without a credit card, and there is a 30-day money-back guarantee. Full pricing on ohdear.app. We checked these prices on .
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How do I connect Oh Dear to my AI agent?
Oh Dear MCP is Oh Dear's official MCP server. Add it to your agent once, then ask it to check uptime, certificates and broken links in Oh Dear.
Gives your agent your Oh Dear monitoring, covering downtime alerts, certificate expiry, broken links, DNS changes, cron checks and status pages, so you can ask about a site's health.
$ claude mcp add --transport http oh-dear https://ohdear.app/mcp
Claude Code connects to Oh Dear over the web.
Oh Dear's setup guide covers the sign-in.
Then ask your agent
- Runs
- On the web
- Sign-in
- See guide
- Checked
- Answered 13 Nov
What are the best Oh Dear alternatives?
One tool on Recaply does Oh Dear's job. It is open source, so you can run it on your own server.
Questions about Oh Dear
What is Oh Dear?
Checks sites and servers every minute and alerts agencies and developers before their clients notice.
Who is Oh Dear for?
Oh Dear is best for web agencies that watch client sites for outages, expiring certificates and broken links.
Is Oh Dear free?
No. Oh Dear has no free plan, but every plan starts with a 10-day free trial that needs no credit card, and paid plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee. The smallest plan, Solo, is €15 a month for 2 sites.
How much does Oh Dear cost?
Oh Dear's paid plans are Solo at €15 per month, Solo Plus at €29 per month, Freelance at €49 per month and Studio at €99 per month.
Does Oh Dear have an MCP server?
Yes. Oh Dear MCP is Oh Dear's official MCP server, so agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot can check uptime, certificates and broken links in Oh Dear. Oh Dear runs it on the web.
Is there an open source alternative to Oh Dear?
Yes. OneUptime is an open source tool that does the same job, so you can run your own.
What are the best Oh Dear alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are OneUptime.
Where can I try Oh Dear?
On its official website, ohdear.app.
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