The Big List of Website Uptime Monitoring Services

vyasvyas OGRetired
edited August 2020 in General

Some days ago I had posted about Netumo - for uptime monitoring, then there are of course the LE* favourites- Hetrix Tools and Uptime Robot.

A couple of days ago some random surfing led me to similar sites, and I started writing a post on my blog about the uptime monitoring services. I came across several 'lists' from posts by KeyCDN, and other sites. Posting some of them here.

The below list includes Free, Freemium and paid services. With time, I will update and classify these services into these three categories, similar to the way I had done in my blog post on Webpage Builders.
As always,

  • Suggestions to the list welcome and appreciated.
  • If you have used any of the services in the list other than the "LE* favourites", please mention your feedback about them in the comments.

The Big List of Website Monitoring Services

(Posting in random order)

Sr. No Service Type* Remarks
1 Hetrix Tools Freemium 15 monitors in free tier
2 Uptime Robot Freemiuum 50 monitors in Free tier
3 Site 24x7 Paid Plans 30 Day Trial
4 Updown.io Paid Credit based system. e.g. 50 sites checked 5 minute intervals @ 1 Euro/month
5 New Relic
6 Monitis
7 Pingdom
8 Status Cake
9 Website Pulse
10 Pingbreak
11 Hexometer Freemium
12 Netumo Free in Public Beta
13 Status OK
14 Freshping Freemium 50 Monitors
15 Oh Dear Paid Plans 15 Day Trial
16 Hyperping Paid Plans 15 Day Trial
17 Webgazer Freemium very limited free tier
18 Apex Ping
19 Crawly Premium 7 Day Trial
20 Upmon Freemium
21 Monitive Premium 15 Day Trial
22 Better Uptime Freemium 10 monitors in free tier
23 Easyping Premium, Free trial available
24 Nixstats Freemium Thanks @MikeA
25 Nodeping Premium 15 Day Trial
Thanks @dev
26 Nodequey Free in PUblic Beta Thanks @someshzade
27 Bearmon Freemium 50 Checks free, Thanks @Naix
28 Uptime Doctor Thanks @Ark

*Types: Free, Freemium, Premium.
Note - 1. for sake of simplicity, paid-only plans are tagged as premium. This category may be updated at a later time
2. I am not a fan of classifying services based on price alone. But in the LE world, that could be used as a filter or starting point.

List-Website-Monitoring-Tools

p.s: Link to my blog post I was referring to

Comments

  • MikeAMikeA Hosting ProviderOG

    Nixstats. Been using it for a long time for TCP monitoring.

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    ExtraVM - High RAM Specials
    Yours truly.

  • There’s also NodePing

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  • someshzadesomeshzade Hosting ProviderOG

    Nodequery

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    Nexa Racks - Reliable Web Hosting Company

  • vyasvyas OGRetired
    edited July 2020

    Thanks for the suggestions, I have updated the list, and added the three tools suggested so far.
    Will update periodically particulate the first 10 or 12 entries


    (Entirely optional)
    @AnthonySmith at a later point in time (say a few weeks from now) if the list adds value as a blog post on LESBlog, would be happy to tailor it.

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  • Nice list, thank you!
    Also, bearmon, by the same folks who run LunaNode.

    [...] free of charge, with up to fifty checks [...]
    For features such as SMS, or for more than fifty checks, you can add credit to your account (each additional check past fifty is billed hourly at $0.1/mo).

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  • Been using in the past Uptimedoctor 5 URL for 1min testing

  • visualwebtechnovisualwebtechno Hosting ProviderOG

    Using Hetrix Tools Long time

  • serverianserverian Hosting Provider

    Nodeping is the best. It never gives false positives since it confirms the downtime from a totally different geographic location and only then sends a notice.

    We have been using them for 6-7 years.

    They are worth every penny.

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  • @serverian said:
    Nodeping is the best. It never gives false positives since it confirms the downtime from a totally different geographic location and only then sends a notice.

    We have been using them for 6-7 years.

    They are worth every penny.

    Yep, I think ramnode and securedragon are using them as well iirc

  • edited July 2020

    Zilore : It's FREE. and now my primary external monitoring.
    Pro: Zero false positives. Reliable
    Cons: slow javascript heavy UI and graphs. (for once a year when I scan through)

    EDIT:
    Apparently I've been on FREE beta for nearly 2yrs. haha.
    Found on their website:

    Free plan
    Our monitoring service is in the beta-testing stage. All users of the beta version will get a free, time-unlimited subscription featuring all the checks that will become available at the launch of the commercial version.

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  • MaxKVMMaxKVM Hosting Provider

    Mr Vyas sir, I cannot stop hearing Shaggy ft Rayvon in my head. Thank you for this gift. =)

    Also, I think #4 should be updown.io unless that is a completely different service.

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  • vyasvyas OGRetired
    edited July 2020

    @dev said:

    @serverian said:
    Nodeping is the best. It never gives false positives since it confirms the downtime from a totally different geographic location and only then sends a notice.

    We have been using them for 6-7 years.

    They are worth every penny.


    Yep, I think ramnode and securedragon are using them as well iirc

    Thanks for some great feedback.
    Tempted to suggest a tag line to Nodeping folks...

    “Nodeping. The uptime monitor trusted by Webhosts.”

    @MaxKVM said:
    updown.io

    Fixed. Thanks for flagging kind sir. My typos must be a result of listening to ‘ Summertime ‘

    Hi all,
    On a related note...
    Turns out some guy has compiled a list of 150 monitoring services. And an additional 100 odd that are no longer active or shut down. Makes me wonder if there is a lot of money to be made by offering these services?

  • havochavoc OG
    edited July 2020

    Weird. I actually dreamed about setting one up recently. Might still do so. More of a tech trial though rather than commercial motive

  • vyasvyas OGRetired

    In order to further test, I have set up 5 different services. Three existing, two new ones : Ironically one (Netumo) keeps giving me false positives for @Smallweb Singapore. 20 alerts a day! Turned it off today.

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