Deploy and Host Uptime Kuma on Railway

Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted uptime monitoring tool — an open-source alternative to UptimeRobot. It watches your websites, APIs, TCP ports, and containers, alerts you through 90+ notification services (Slack, Telegram, Discord, email, webhooks), and publishes shareable status pages with response-time charts and certificate expiry tracking.

About Hosting Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma runs as a single lightweight Node.js container with an embedded SQLite database, so hosting it means one service and one persistent volume. This template deploys the official louislam/uptime-kuma image with a volume mounted at /app/data, where monitors, history, and settings live — data survives every redeploy. The app binds Railway's injected PORT automatically, and no environment variables are required: deploy, open the public URL, and create your admin account in the first-run setup wizard. Because monitoring only works if the monitor itself stays up, an always-on host with persistent storage is essential — exactly what this setup provides.

Common Use Cases

Monitor production websites and APIs with instant downtime alerts to Slack, Telegram, or Discord
Public status page for your users during incidents, with uptime history and response-time graphs
Track SSL certificate expiry and cron-style heartbeat checks for background jobs

Dependencies for Uptime Kuma Hosting

Persistent volume mounted at /app/data (SQLite database, monitor history, settings)
Outbound network access so the pinger can reach the endpoints you monitor

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

First visit shows the setup wizard — create your admin account immediately, since the instance is public. To check the service from the CLI:

curl -I https://YOUR-DOMAIN/
# HTTP/2 200 — Uptime Kuma is up

The container stores everything under /app/data; back it up by snapshotting the volume.

Why Deploy Uptime Kuma on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Uptime Kuma on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.