Pingdom vs UptimeRobot vs Vigil

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Pingdom

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UptimeRobot

326
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+ 1
84
Vigil

1
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Pros of Pingdom
Pros of UptimeRobot
Pros of Vigil
  • 224
    Simple and reliable
  • 103
    Monitoring your websites
  • 75
    Easy to use dashboard
  • 65
    Email, text & twitter alerts
  • 43
    Free tier
  • 23
    Performance data
  • 14
    Detailed Reports
  • 11
    Email Reports
  • 9
    Mobile App
  • 9
    Root Cause Analysis
  • 1
    30-day risk free trial
  • 1
    Easy setup
  • 1
    IOS app
  • 22
    Free tier
  • 18
    Easy to understand
  • 14
    Instant notifications
  • 8
    Simpler than Pingdom
  • 5
    Cheap but Reliable
  • 5
    Free public status pages
  • 4
    Keyword monitoring
  • 4
    Public Status Page
  • 3
    Mobile App
  • 1
    Receive twitter status message
  • 0
    Good api
  • 0
    SSL Checking
  • 1
    Simple and reliable
  • 1
    Inexpensive

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Cons of Pingdom
Cons of UptimeRobot
Cons of Vigil
  • 4
    Expensive
  • 3
    UI is incredibly complicated
  • 2
    Hard to set up alerts properly
  • 4
    False-Positives
  • 3
    Consistently bad UI
  • 2
    Confusing UI
  • 0
    Extremely bad UI experience
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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 UptimeRobot?

    It is all about helping you to keep your websites up. It monitors your websites every 5 minutes and alerts you if your sites are down.

    What is Vigil?

    Whether you have one site, or twenty, Vigil is a simple and reliable service for monitoring the uptime and performance of your websites. View all your sites on our beautiful client dashboards, get email and push notifications when there is a problem, and receive weekly email summary reports that let you know how your sites are doing over the long-term.

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      Datadog
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      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!
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