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Cronitor vs Squadcast: What are the differences?
Developers describe Cronitor as "Monitor cron jobs, daemons and almost anything else". Monitoring systems are often complex and require a strong sysadmin background to properly configure and maintain. Cronitor replaces all this with a simple service that anyone can set up. Receive email/sms notifications if your jobs don't run, run too slow, or finish too quickly. On the other hand, Squadcast is detailed as "The end-to-end SRE tool for efficient incident resolution". It is an end-to-end incident response platform that helps tech teams adopt SRE best practices to maximize service reliability, accelerate innovation velocity and deliver outstanding customer experiences.
Cronitor and Squadcast belong to "Monitoring Aggregation" category of the tech stack.
I'm currently on PagerDuty, but I'm about to add enough users to go out of the starter tier, which will dramatically increase my license cost. PagerDuty is, in my experience, quite clunky, and I'm looking for alternatives. Squadcast is one I've found, and another is xMatters. Between the three, I'm currently leaning towards xMatters, but I'd like to know what people suggest.
Disclosure I work at Splunk and VictorOps is a Splunk product. But I would suggest in addition to trying the others adding VO to your list. It's important to note that some of the tools are designed as Incident Response tools, others started as mass notification tools. For on-call stick to those designed for incident response.
I would say to use Squadcast, the configuration is easy, provides a lot of features such as war room, RCA tracking postmortem, RBAC and they are quick to add features on request as well, recently I asked for custom on call reminders and I am sure they will add it really soon.
Pros of Cronitor
- Quick and helpful support2
- Simple and direct1
Pros of Squadcast
- Easy Configuration2
- Intuitive UI / UX2
- Lots of Integrations2
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Cons of Cronitor
- Pricey0