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StillAlive vs Distill: What are the differences?
What is StillAlive? A simple, easy to implement way to check that your website is up, and also that it's still working properly. Using our stories feature, you can test many different features of your live, production website. It could be you need to find out if logins are working. Whatever it is, StillAlive can (or will) be able to test it.
What is Distill? Tracking website updates, automated and simplified. It is a web monitoring tool that keeps you up to date and up to speed. If you're looking to keep track of updates on any website or social platform, it is the tool you need.
StillAlive and Distill belong to "Website Monitoring" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by StillAlive are:
- Nothing to install- All you need to do is create a script that mimics the behaviour path you want to have us test.
- Make sure your site works as expected- StillAlive doesn't just ping your website to see if it is online. It mimics the actual behaviour of your users, viewing your site as your users would and navigating around doing real stuff. So don't just make sure your website is responding with a 200 OK, make sure your shopping cart works, or that users can log in.
- High Availability- StillAlive helps you make sure your application is online, 24x7.
On the other hand, Distill provides the following key features:
- Easy content selection from any webpage
- Highlighted changes
- Change history