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Healthchecks.io vs Pingdom: What are the differences?
Developers describe Healthchecks.io as "Cron Monitoring. Get Notified When Your Cron Jobs Fail". Healthchecks.io is a monitoring service for your cron jobs, background services and scheduled tasks. It works by listening for HTTP "pings" from your services. You can set up various alert methods: email, Slack, Telegram, PagerDuty, etc. On the other hand, Pingdom is detailed as "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.
Healthchecks.io can be classified as a tool in the "Monitoring Aggregation" category, while Pingdom is grouped under "Website Monitoring".
Some of the features offered by Healthchecks.io are:
- Open source, can be self-hosted
- Simple, clean dashboard
- Free for hobby projects
On the other hand, Pingdom provides the following key features:
- Uptime & Response time reports
- Multi-step transaction monitoring
- Email, text & twitter alerts
Healthchecks.io is an open source tool with 1.91K GitHub stars and 267 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Healthchecks.io's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Healthchecks.io
- Can be self-hosted3
- Great value2
- Free tier2
- Easy to understand2
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 Healthchecks.io
Cons of Pingdom
- UI is incredibly complicated3
- Expensive3
- Hard to set up alerts properly2