For Freelancers
Uptime Monitoring for Freelancers
Be the freelancer who already knew. Monitor every client site for free to start, get pinged the moment one goes down, and fix it before anyone sends you a message.
Why freelancers choose Sentinel
Peace of mind that fits a freelance budget
You don't have a NOC or an on-call team. It's just you. Sentinel quietly watches every site you've built so a downed homepage or expired certificate never becomes an awkward client conversation.
- Fix issues before the client notices
- Start free and only pay as you grow
- Look as polished as a bigger studio
Made for a team of one
Simple monitoring that earns its keep
Free to start
A genuinely free plan covers your first sites at no cost. Add paid monitoring only when your client list grows, with no upfront commitment.
Set up in minutes
Paste a URL, pick how often to check, choose where to be alerted. No agents to install and no complicated config to wrestle with.
Look more established
Hand clients a clean status page and the occasional uptime report. Small touches that make a one-person shop feel like a serious operation.
Alerts on your phone
Get a heads-up by SMS, email, Slack or Discord the second a site drops, so you can quietly fix it before the client emails you.
Catch what you'd forget
SSL certificates, domain renewals and DNS changes are easy to lose track of across clients. Sentinel watches them and warns you early.
One simple dashboard
Every client site in one tidy list with current status, response time and history. No tool sprawl, no per-site logins to remember.
FAQ
Freelancer uptime monitoring questions, answered
What is uptime monitoring for freelancers?
Uptime monitoring continuously checks that the sites you build and maintain are reachable, and alerts you the instant one goes down. For a freelancer it means you find out about an outage before your client does, so you can fix it quietly instead of getting an angry message.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Sentinel has a free plan you can start on at no cost, which is ideal when you're monitoring a handful of client sites. Paid plans add more monitors and faster checks, and include a 14-day free trial. You can cancel anytime.
Do I need a team or any technical setup?
No. Sentinel is built to work for a single person. There's nothing to install; you add a monitor by entering a URL, choosing a check interval, and picking where alerts go. It takes about a minute per site.
How will I know when a site goes down?
You can be alerted by email, SMS, Slack and Discord. Checks run from four global regions and an outage is confirmed by consensus before you're notified, so you get real alerts without constant false alarms.
Can I give clients a status page?
Yes. You can publish a status page so clients can check their site's uptime themselves, which makes a solo freelancer look polished and cuts down on "is my site down?" messages.
What can Sentinel monitor besides uptime?
Beyond uptime it checks SSL certificate expiry, domain expiration, DNS changes, page keywords and API responses, exactly the things that are easy to forget across a roster of client sites.
Never get the “my site is down” message again
Add your client sites in a couple of minutes and let Sentinel keep watch. Free to start, no commitment.