Checkmate Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Checkmate hosting and watch your sites and services from your own server, with incident history and public status pages. xCloud runs the pinned Checkmate v3.12.0 image beside a private MongoDB 8.0 container, generates the session secret, mounts a persistent volume for your monitors and history, and publishes the app over HTTPS in minutes — your monitoring data stays on your server, not in a third-party SaaS.

Deploy your Checkmate

No terminal
No technical skills needed
No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is Checkmate?

Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted uptime and infrastructure monitor from Bluewave Labs. It checks websites and services on a schedule, records response times, opens and resolves incidents, and can publish public status pages for your users.

Users, monitors and check history live in a MongoDB database that you run yourself. It is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

From Sign-Up to a Live Monitor In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Checkmate stack normally means an API container, a MongoDB database, a session secret, a volume, a domain and a certificate before the first check runs. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Checkmate from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Checkmate image and a private MongoDB 8.0 container with no published ports, both pinned by immutable digest, mount the mongo_data volume, generate the session secret (JWT_SECRET) and publish the app over HTTPS. First boot takes about a minute.
Step 03
Register And Add A Monitor
Open your HTTPS Checkmate URL and register straight away — the first account becomes the superadmin and later sign-ups need an invite from it. Then create your first monitor with the short wizard.

Everything Checkmate Does, On Your Own Server

Checkmate runs in full here: monitors, incidents and status pages on your own domain, backed by a MongoDB database you own.

Many Kinds Of Monitor
Upstream supports HTTP checks with SSL expiry, ping, port, DNS, Docker, gRPC, WebSocket and game-server monitors, plus page-speed monitoring.
Incident Tracking
Incidents open and resolve as monitors go down and recover, with a history kept for each monitor.
Public Status Pages
Publish a status page for your users; upstream ships five themes. Pages are served on the same host as the app.
Alerts In Your Channels
Send notifications through email, webhooks, Discord, Slack, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams and Telegram, configured inside Checkmate after you sign in.
First Account Is The Superadmin
There is no preset password. The first account registered becomes the superadmin, and later sign-ups need an invite from it.
Private MongoDB Included
MongoDB 8.0 holds users, monitors and check history on the mongo_data volume, reachable only inside the install's private network.

Everything You Need To Run Your Uptime Monitor 24/7

Managed hosting for Checkmate, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Checkmate v3.12.0 deployed instantly
Official images pinned by digest
Session secret generated for you
Private MongoDB, no published ports
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Checkmate

Watch your sites and APIs
Keep an eye on website and service uptime and response times from your own infrastructure, including SSL certificate expiry on HTTP checks.
Cover more than websites
Monitor ports, DNS, Docker containers, gRPC and WebSocket endpoints and game servers alongside plain HTTP checks.
Tell users what is happening
Publish a public status page so customers can see current status without asking your support team.
Get alerted where your team already works
Route alerts to email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, PagerDuty or a webhook so downtime reaches the right people.
Keep monitoring data in-house
Hold users, monitors and history in MongoDB on a server you control instead of a third-party monitoring SaaS.

Checkmate Screenshots

The Checkmate Uptime monitors list showing one HTTP monitor with status Up and 100 percent uptime

A Checkmate monitor details page with response time, uptime and certificate expiry

The Checkmate create monitor form listing HTTP, ping, port, game, gRPC, WebSocket and DNS check types

Checkmate vs Alternatives

Uptime Kuma: Another self-hosted uptime monitor. Checkmate is the choice when you want its monitor types, incident history and status pages backed by a MongoDB database you run.
Gatus: A self-hosted service-health monitor with status pages. Checkmate is set up from its web interface, with a monitor wizard and notification channels configured in the app after sign-in.
UptimeRobot: A hosted monitoring service. Checkmate is open source and runs on your own server, so monitor data stays with you rather than with a third party.
Better Stack: A hosted monitoring and status-page product. Checkmate offers monitors and public status pages you run and own yourself.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Checkmate hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Checkmate sits alongside other monitoring and ops tools.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Checkmate itself is licensed by Bluewave Labs under AGPL-3.0.

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Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Checkmate on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own Uptime Monitor?

Checkmate on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

What does Checkmate monitor?

Per upstream, HTTP (with SSL expiry), ping, port, DNS, Docker, gRPC, WebSocket and game servers, plus page-speed monitoring.

How do I sign in the first time?

There is no preset password. Open the site and register; the first account becomes the superadmin and later sign-ups need an invite from it. Register right away after the site comes up.

What runs alongside Checkmate?

A private MongoDB 8.0 container with no published ports. Checkmate itself is stateless; users, monitors and history are stored in MongoDB.

Can I publish a status page?

Yes. Status pages are served on the same host as the app. Extra custom domains for status pages are not part of this baseline.

How do I set up alerts?

After signing in, configure notification channels inside Checkmate, such as email, webhooks, Discord, Slack, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams or Telegram. SMTP and notification settings are stored in Checkmate, not in environment variables.

What should I back up?

The mongo_data volume, and the generated JWT_SECRET in the site environment file. Back up before any upgrade.

Backups in xCloud

What happens if I change JWT_SECRET?

JWT_SECRET is read on every container start. Change it in the site environment file and redeploy; existing sessions are then signed out.

Can Checkmate monitor Docker containers on my other servers?

Remote Docker monitors over TLS need an optional ENCRYPTION_KEY. Access to the host's Docker socket is not included in this template.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Checkmate?

No. The template pins Checkmate v3.12.0 and MongoDB 8.0 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release and existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the readable tag and digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 1 CPU core, 1024 MB of RAM and 4 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 260 MiB for both containers combined. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

What survives a restart?

Data on the mongo_data volume. After both containers were restarted in QA the app came back healthy and a monitor created before the restart was still there.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Checkmate?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Checkmate project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Checkmate project.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.