Airbrake vs Pingdom
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Pingdom is an uptime monitoring service. When problems happen with a site that Pingdom monitors, it immediately alerts the owner so the problem can be taken care of. | Airbrake collects errors for your applications in all major languages and frameworks. We alert you to new errors and give you critical context, trends and details needed to find and fix errors fast. |
Uptime & Response time reports;Multi-step transaction monitoring;Email, text & twitter alerts;Multiple check locations;Root cause analysis;Public and email reports;Monitor that your websites and servers are working- Pingdom tests your websites and other infrastructure components as often as every minute to make sure it is all up and running.;Be the first to know if something breaks- When an error occurs, you can get alerted via email, text (SMS), Twitter, or a mobile notification to your Android and iOS device.;Easily spot trends in your performance- The results of all tests that we perform are saved, and we use that data to create graphs of your site's historical uptime and performance.;When it breaks, find out why- If an issue occurs with one of your sites, we use additional tests such as a traceroute to help you find out where the problem is.;Identify broken and slow website interactions- Monitor parts of a website like the login, search, check out, or other user interactions that are important to you.;Use it wherever you are- You can use our mobile apps for Android and iOS to view report data and the current status of your sites while on the go. | Dupe Detection- Developers will only receive an email once when an error occurs — rather than getting buried under an error email avalanche.;Auto Resolve- An action on each application deployment — that way developers can focus on the problems that exist today, not the ones from last month.;Github Aware- Airbrake is github-aware, and can link code in your Airbrake error stack traces to the corresponding locations on github.;RSS- Airbrake offers an RSS feed of error activity, so errors can be monitored using feed readers.;Lighthouse Integration- Airbrake integrates with the Lighthouse bug/ticket tracking application, for easy discussion of errors and integration with your existing workflow.;SSL Secure- Airbrake can be accessed over SSL-protected secure connections to keep your data completely private. The application itself is updated regularly with the latest security patches.;Multiple Projects- Easily track and navigate errors from multiple projects for up to 64 projects.;Fully supported platforms/languages- Ruby on Rails, iOS |
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