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StillAlive vs Panopta: 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 Panopta? Infrastructure monitoring as a service. It is an Infrastructure monitoring as a service for public/private cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments. Built for SaaS, e-commerce, service providers and enterprise.
StillAlive and Panopta 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, Panopta provides the following key features:
- Application monitoring for public and private servers
- Server health monitoring
- Monitoring behind the firewall
