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Decisions about Pingdom, StatusCake, and updown.io
Kevin Williams
We needed a monitoring tool to track application uptime, response time and provide a public status page.
After looking at several options including the big ones like Pingdom and Pingometer, we went with updown.io. Their pricing model allowed us to pay for exactly what we needed (number of endpoints and frequency) without selling us anything we weren't going to use.
Their interface is easy to use, service has been rock solid and their public status pages look great.
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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
Pros of StatusCake
- Easy to use and reliable14
- Free tier12
- Public Reporting6
- Domain monitoring4
- Cheaper3
- SSL Certificate Monitoring3
- No false positives3
- Group Notification3
- Great Customer Support2
- WhoIs Domain Monitoring1
- Real Browser Testing1
- Malware and Virus Scanning1
- Multiple User Accounts1
- Mobile App1
- Full Featured API1
Pros of updown.io
- Nice and clean UI14
- Cheaper11
- Super easy setup8
- Better than pingdom6
- Great support6
- Ridiculously simple pricing2
- SSL certificate checks2
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- Expensive4
- UI is incredibly complicated3
- Hard to set up alerts properly2
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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.
What is StatusCake?
Monitoring a website is one thing – finding the best way to alert you to downtime another. At StatusCake we give you as many options as possible to decide when & how often you’re contacted. Whether it’s by email, SMS, push notifications for iOS & Android or integration with third party apps including Zapier and PagerDuty – you decide how you want to be alerted and when!
What is updown.io?
updown is an online service that checks your website's status by periodically sending an HTTP HEAD request to the URL of your choice. It then notifies you by email or sms when your website is not responding correctly.
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What are some alternatives to Pingdom, StatusCake, and updown.io?
New Relic
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PagerDuty
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Datadog
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Uptrends
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UptimeRobot
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