Uptime Kuma 2.1 Drops: Global Ping, Domain Expiry Alerts, and More!

After months of behind-the-scenes wizardry, the self-hosting world’s favorite uptime monitoring tool just leveled up. Uptime Kuma 2.1 has officially landed, and it’s packing enough new firepower to make sysadmins, DevOps engineers, and indie hackers alike sit up and take notice.

With over 80,000 GitHub stars and a fiercely loyal community, Uptime Kuma has become the go-to open-source solution for keeping tabs on your services, APIs, and infrastructure. Now, version 2.1 is here to make monitoring smarter, faster, and way more flexible.

🌍 Globalping Support: Monitor from Anywhere on Earth

One of the headline features in this release is Globalping support. Previously, Uptime Kuma relied solely on your own server to run health checks. Now, you can tap into a global network of probes scattered across the planet to test your services from multiple geographic locations.

Why does this matter? Imagine you’re running a global SaaS platform. A server in New York might be up, but users in Tokyo or Sydney could still be experiencing latency or downtime. With Globalping, you can simulate real-world user experiences from dozens of countries, ensuring your service is truly global-ready.

📬 New Notification Channels: Jira, Google Sheets, and More

Uptime Kuma 2.1 introduces two major new notification options:

• Jira Service Management: Perfect for teams already embedded in the Atlassian ecosystem. Now you can automatically create tickets when a monitor goes down, streamlining incident response.
• Google Sheets: For those who live and breathe spreadsheets, this integration lets you log uptime data directly into Google Sheets for custom reporting, trend analysis, or even sharing with non-technical stakeholders.

But that’s not all—notifications have been supercharged across the board. Discord and ntfy now support message templates, format presets, and richer alert details. Slack notifications can now include monitor group names, making it easier to triage issues in busy channels.

🏷️ Domain Expiry Monitor: Never Lose a Domain Again

Here’s a feature that might just save your bacon: the Domain Expiry monitor. If you’ve ever had a domain slip through the cracks and expire (hello, awkward emails from squatters), you’ll appreciate this addition.

With the new Domain Expiry monitor, you can:

• Track when your domains are set to expire
• Get alerts well in advance
• Reduce noisy expiry logs and improve validation behavior
• Handle RDAP lookups more reliably, including support for multi-level public suffixes and static RDAP DNS data

It’s a small feature with massive peace-of-mind value.

🔧 Under-the-Hood Polish: Fixes, Performance, and Localization

As always, Uptime Kuma 2.1 isn’t just about flashy new features. The team has also squashed a bunch of nagging issues:

• Certificate expiry now respects your configured settings
• MongoDB JSON parsing has been improved
• RSS pubDate time zones are handled correctly
• RADIUS client errors have been addressed
• Monitor selection and nested group collapsing now work smoother than ever

Localization continues to expand, with Bavarian German now supported. Plus, dozens of translation updates from the Weblate community have been merged in, making Uptime Kuma more accessible to users worldwide.

🔒 Security and Maintenance

Like previous releases, Uptime Kuma 2.1 comes with internal maintenance, updated dependencies, workflow tweaks, and some small but important security improvements. The team remains committed to keeping the platform lean, secure, and battle-tested.

🚀 Ready to Try It?

If you haven’t yet jumped on the Uptime Kuma bandwagon, now’s the perfect time. The tool is self-hostable, lightweight, and ridiculously easy to set up. For a step-by-step guide, check out our detailed tutorial on setting up Uptime Kuma with Docker in minutes.

Happy monitoring!

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