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Apex Ping vs Uptime Robot: What are the differences?
What is Apex Ping? Uptime and performance monitoring tool with rich reporting & alerting. Modern uptime and performance monitoring for websites and APIs, with rich reporting, flexible alerting, and competitive pricing. More than just HEAD requests: choose an HTTP method, headers, and body for any request.
What is Uptime Robot? Free website uptime monitor. Uptime Robot is all about helping you to keep your websites up. It monitors your websites every 5 minutes and alerts you if your sites are down.
Apex Ping and Uptime Robot can be primarily classified as "Website Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Apex Ping are:
- Simple
- Rich reporting
- Flexible alerts
On the other hand, Uptime Robot provides the following key features:
- http(s): that's perfect for website monitoring. The service regularly sends requests (which are the same as if a visitor is browsing your website) to the URL and decides if it is up or down depending on the HTTP statuses returned from the website (200-success, 404-not found, etc.)
- ping: this is good for monitoring a server. Ping (ICMP) requests are sent and up/down status is decided according to the "if responses are received or not". Ping is not a good fit for monitoring websites as a website (its IP) can respond to ping requests while it is down (which means that the site is down but the server hosting the site is up)
- keyword: checks if a keyword exists or not exists in a web page
Pros of Apex Ping
- So simple2
Pros of UptimeRobot
- Free tier22
- Easy to understand18
- Instant notifications14
- Simpler than Pingdom8
- Cheap but Reliable5
- Free public status pages5
- Keyword monitoring4
- Public Status Page4
- Mobile App3
- Receive twitter status message1
- Good api0
- SSL Checking0
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Cons of Apex Ping
Cons of UptimeRobot
- False-Positives4
- Consistently bad UI3
- Confusing UI2
- Extremely bad UI experience0