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Cronitor vs Pingdom: What are the differences?
Cronitor: Monitor cron jobs, daemons and almost anything else. Monitoring systems are often complex and require a strong sysadmin background to properly configure and maintain. Cronitor replaces all this with a simple service that anyone can set up. Receive email/sms notifications if your jobs don't run, run too slow, or finish too quickly; Pingdom: Uptime and performance monitoring made easy. 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.
Cronitor belongs to "Monitoring Aggregation" category of the tech stack, while Pingdom can be primarily classified under "Website Monitoring".
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Pros of Cronitor
- Quick and helpful support2
- Simple and direct1
Pros of Pingdom
- Simple and reliable224
- Monitoring your websites103
- Easy to use dashboard75
- Email, text & twitter alerts65
- Free tier43
- Performance data23
- Detailed Reports14
- Email Reports11
- Mobile App9
- Root Cause Analysis9
- 30-day risk free trial1
- Easy setup1
- IOS app1
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Cons of Cronitor
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Cons of Cronitor
- Pricey0
Cons of Pingdom
- Expensive4
- UI is incredibly complicated3
- Hard to set up alerts properly2
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What is Cronitor?
Monitoring systems are often complex and require a strong sysadmin background to properly configure and maintain. Cronitor replaces all this with a simple service that anyone can set up. Receive email/sms notifications if your jobs don't run, run too slow, or finish too quickly.
What is Pingdom?
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.
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