28 Best Website Monitoring Tools (Tried & Tested)

Looking to formalize your website monitoring by picking a professional solution? Or just checking alternatives to what you’re already using?

Then look no further.

Since website monitoring includes anything from basic availability (uptime) checks to monitors that simulate browser behavior on different devices, we grouped the most well-known tools into common categories:

• Availability monitoring tools: For teams and indie hackers looking to get the most vital functions like uptime, SSL certificate, and ping checks.

• Browser and transaction monitoring tools: Tools focused on simulating perceived user experience on a given website using a specific device or browser and for checking common user paths like signup, user login, or payment confirmations.

• Real user monitoring (RUM) tools: Used for measuring real-life analytics of website users - very similar to browser and transaction monitoring tools just in real-time, not simulated.

• Open-source monitoring tools: Simple and advanced tools that can be self-hosted and customized to a great extent.

• Incident management and On-call tools: For teams that need advanced alerting and incident management not-offered by regular monitoring tools.

• Status page tools: Used to communicate website downtime and incidents to users, clients, or internal teams on a dedicated page.

• Complete observability platforms: Alternative to dedicated monitoring tools. Some platforms offer monitoring together with logging, visualizations, and other tools under one roof.

Sidenote: Several of the mentioned tools have multiple functionalities. For example, offer both availability monitoring and RUM. In those cases, we have put them into the category based on what we thought the tool was most suited for.

What didn't make the list?

We didn’t include APM: Application Performance Monitoring (Application Performance Management) tools.

An APM tool is a good addition to a monitoring stack, giving insights into errors, traces, and key transactions. However, it can be replaced by dedicated logging, bug tracking, or observability tools depending on the specific problem one is trying to solve. Since they are not essential in solving the website monitoring challenge, we have left them out of this selection. Alternatively, if you are interested in reading more about APM, head over to our APM tools to see who made it onto our list.

Availability monitoring tools

Also called uptime monitoring tools - they alert you when your website goes down.

🧭 Availability vs. synthetic monitoring, what’s the difference?

Availability monitoring is a part of the synthetic monitoring toolbox, which consists of monitoring for:

• Availability (with availability or uptime monitoring)
• Performance (with real-browser monitoring)
• Function (with transaction monitoring)

Synthetic monitoring works by sending automated requests from a robot client to your app, simulating what a regular user would do. Availability monitoring is a subset of those checks, specifically aimed at whether the service is reachable.

Recommended reading: What is synthetic monitoring?

1. Better Stack

Better Stack is a tool that offers monitoring, incident management, and status pages in one product.

Monitoring includes basic uptime and keyword checks, as well as SSL, ping, port, and DNS checks.

Better Stack alerts have screenshots, responses, and incident timelines for better debugging.

Alerting options include unlimited phone and SMS alerts on paid plans as well as E-mail, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and other 1-click integrations.

🌟Key features

• Incident management & on-call escalations
• Global uptime monitoring
• Log management
• Compliance monitoring
• HTTPS and API monitoring
• Multi-channel alerts (Slack, Teams, phone, email notifications..)
• Collaborative dashboards
• AI incident silencing
• Log and event aggregation with seamless integrations (e.g., AWS, Datadog, Prometheus)

➕Pros

• Branded Status Pages
• 30-second check frequency
• Global location checks
• On-call scheduling
• Customizable alert rules
• Dozens of integrations with cloud services and incident management
• Automated workflows and automatization

➖Cons

• Not a full-stack observability solution

💲Pricing

Better Stack offers a free plan that includes both uptime monitoring and logs or a pay-as-you-go plan starting at $25/month. The free plan includes 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, and e-mail alerts with 3-minute checks, including 3 GB ingested logs per month retained for 3 days and 10M ingested metrics data points retained for 30 days with a 2-month incident history.

2. UptimeRobot

Most known uptime monitoring solution, which has been around for years.

It’s a basic tool for uptime monitoring that also includes SSL and ping checks. Recently they have also added status page functionality.

Alerting is the main limiting factor with only 20 SMS or phone calls on the first tier of their paid plan.

Their free plan has 5-min checks and 1 status page, which is suitable for smaller indie hacker projects.

🌟Key features

• Uptime monitoring
• HTTPS, Ping, TCP, SSL, and keyword monitoring
• 60 seconds checks on a pro plan
• Email, SMS, push notifications, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or integrations with Zapier
• Public status pages

➕Pros

• Simple interface
• Flexible notification settings
• Good for beginners

➖Cons

• 5-minute interval checks in the free plan
• Basic analytics reporting
• Missing on-call schedules, incident timelines, and detailed performance metrics
• Limited team collaboration features

💲Pricing

Uptime Robot offers 4 types of plans. Starting with a Free plan that provides up to 50 monitors with 5-minute check intervals and email alerts, along with 1 public status page, makes it a great starting option for basic needs. For more advanced features, the Solo plan starts at $8 per month and includes previous features, 1-minute checks, multiple alert channels (including SMS, voice calls, and Slack), SSL monitoring, and up to 10 customizable public status pages. Users can also purchase extra SMS alerts if needed.

3. StatusCake

StatusCake offers basic availability monitoring as well as insights into page speeds. A status page also offered, however only as an add-on and not within the regular plans.

Alerting includes SMS credits and emails. Phone call alerting is available via 3rd party integrations.

🌟Key features

• Uptime monitoring
• Page speed monitoring
• Domain monitoring
• Server monitoring
• SSL monitoring
• Status pages
• SMS, email, integration alerting

➕Pros

• 30 seconds checks
• Easy setup

➖Cons

• Limited synthetic monitoring features
• No APM monitoring
• Fewer advanced reporting features

💲Pricing

StatusCake offers three plans. They start with a free plan with 10 uptime checks, 5-minute testing intervals, and 1 status page. Their Superior plan starts at $20 per month, providing 100 uptime checks, 1-minute testing intervals, and additional integrations. The last plan - Business starts at $70 per month, offering unlimited checks, 30-second testing intervals, premium support, and more advanced features.

4. Updown

Great project of a French indie hacker, with a pay-per-request model. You can select a number of websites, check frequency, and immediately see the price you will pay.

Offers all availability monitoring options and a hosted status page.

Also accepts cryptocurrency alongside regular methods as a mode of payment.

🌟Key features

• Uptime monitoring
• HTTPS checks
• SSL monitoring
• Status pages
• Detailed response time breakdowns (DNS, TCP, SSL, TTFB)
• Webhook and integration support for tools like Slack, Telegram, and PagerDuty

➕Pros

• Available 15 seconds checks
• Comprehensive response time breakdowns

➖Cons

• Lacks synthetic and APM monitoring
• Fewer integrations compared to competitors

💲Pricing

Updown uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model, starting at around $1.46 per month for 1 website check every 15 seconds, allowing you to customize the frequency of checks and only pay for the monitoring you need. This flexible pricing structure lets you control costs based on actual usage, making it a highly affordable option for small to medium-sized monitoring needs.

Tools Summary:

Real-browser and transaction monitoring tools

These tools give you visibility into the perceived user experience and valuable user actions on a given website.

⚙️ How do real-browser and transaction monitoring work?

It checks the website not by sending an automated HTTP request as a regular uptime monitoring tool would, but by emulating a browser window and checking a website from it.

This way the website loads all its elements exactly how a regular user would see it. Because of this, it’s also called real browser monitoring or mobile website monitoring (when simulating screen sizes of specific mobile devices).

5. ChecklyHQ

Using Puppeteer and Playwright frameworks ChecklyHQ offers reliable workflow monitoring. Currently, only the Google Chrome browser is available for browser and transaction checks.

On top of browser simulating transaction monitoring an option to include error traces is available.

Overall a very nicely designed product with a modern look and easy-to-integrate alerting.

🌟Key features

• Synthetic monitoring for APIs and web applications
• API checks with automated workflows and response validation
• Uptime monitoring
• Status pages
• CI/CD pipeline integration for continuous monitoring during development
• Real-time alerting via integrations like Slack, PagerDuty, and email
• Public dashboards and status pages for transparency

➕Pros

• Global uptime monitoring
• Flexible alerting options with a variety of integrations

➖Cons

• Lacks built-in log management or advanced incident response tools

💲Pricing

Checkly offers a free plan with limited checks and features, ideal for smaller projects. Paid plans start at $80 per month, offering additional checks, real browser monitoring, and more. There is also a custom plan where pricing scales based on the number of checks and usage.

6. Uptrends

Uptrends offers monitoring from Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer browser. It also has one of the best selections of worldwide monitoring locations (IPs): 229.

Uptrends offers availability monitoring and a basic status page and RUM together with browser and transaction checks.

There is no free plan available. Priced plans are based on the number of monitors used.

🌟Key features

• Uptime and performance monitoring for websites, servers, and APIs
• Real browser monitoring for user experience insights
• Global monitoring
• Synthetic transaction monitoring for multi-step user flows
• Real-time alerting via SMS, email, and integrations (e.g., Slack, Microsoft Teams)
• Public status pages
• Detailed reporting with dashboards

➕Pros

• Extensive global monitoring network checks
• Easy to setup
• Customizable dashboards with in-depth performance metrics
• Multiple alerting options

➖Cons

• Pricing is higher compared to some competitors, especially for advanced features
• Fewer integrations with developer-focused tools compared to some modern platforms
• No built-in incident management, requiring additional tools for end-to-end alert resolution

💲Pricing

Uptrends offers options segmented into what your business needs - API monitoring, browser monitoring, real user monitoring, private location, or uptime and availability which starts at $5.25 per monitor/month.

7. Dotcom-Monitor

Dotcom-monitor has both browser and transaction monitoring capabilities. Compared to others, it offers auto-generation of Google Lighthouse reports.

There is no free plan available. Pricing is quite complex based on what monitors are used and how.

🌟Key features

• Uptime monitoring for websites, servers, and APIs
• Real browser-based monitoring to simulate user interactions
• Synthetic transaction monitoring for multi-step user flows
• Global monitoring
• SMS, email, and third-party integrations alerting
• Performance monitoring for page load times and errors
• Public status pages

➕Pros

• Global monitoring locations for detailed performance metrics across regions

➖Cons

• Lacks integrated incident management or collaboration tools
• Fewer native integrations compared to some newer monitoring platforms

💲Pricing

With a flexible pricing structure, starting at $19.99 per month for basic website and server monitoring, more advanced plans, such as those with real browser checks and synthetic transaction monitoring, start at $38.95 a month. Pricing is based on the type of monitoring with the first two types mentioned the other two are page performance and web applications.

Tools summary:

Real user monitoring (RUM) tools

Get real-life analytics of website users including core web vitals, load times, and more.

⚖️ RUM vs. synthetic monitoring, what’s the difference?

Synthetic monitoring is called an active monitoring solution as it runs automated tests at a pre-defined frequency. In comparison, RUM is considered a passive monitoring solution, meaning it needs real users to initiate the test.

In brief, synthetic monitoring simulates user experience by sending automated requests from a robot client, while RUM monitors the experience of real users on the website.

7. & 8. Google Analytics and Google Search Console

Many of the main functionalities of RUM tools can be found in those two free tools.

If you don’t need detailed analytics of specific features, like load times of different website elements in real-time then this might be a great alternative to the majority of RUM tools.

Google Analytics offers all the information about browsers, regions, bounce rates, and more in real-time.

Google search console offers in-depth performance analytics including core web vitals with a 1-day delay. It might not be the best, but it’s very reliable and free.

9. Pingdom

An established tool from SolarWinds, it offers both uptime monitoring and RUM.

Pingdom’s RUM offers all the basic statistics about active sessions, bounce rates, visits from different regions, load times, and more. Overall it doesn’t have many more features than Google products offer.

There is no free option available and the pricing is based on monthly page views.

🌟Key features

• Uptime monitoring for websites and servers
• RUM for interactions and performance
• Synthetic transaction monitoring to simulate and test multi-step user interactions
• SMS, email, and third-party integrations (e.g., Slack) alerting
• Public status pages
• Performance and error reports with customizable dashboards

➕Pros

• Easy-to-use interface with quick setup
• Global monitoring from multiple regions

➖Cons

• Pricing can become expensive, especially with high monitoring volumes or advanced features
• Lacks in-depth application performance monitoring (APM) tools
• Limited features for teams needing more advanced incident management and collaboration tools

💲Pricing

Pingdom provides flexible pricing with both annual and monthly billing options. Their plans are usage-based, starting at $15 per month, and are divided into synthetic monitoring and real user monitoring. For teams needing anywhere from 500K to over 5M pageviews per month, Pingdom offers an Enterprise plan with customizable solutions with pricing available upon request.

10. Uptime.com

Very similar offering to Pingdom’s RUM. Has all the basic tracking metrics including device, OS, browser, and location usage.

There is no free option available and the pricing is based on features and longer data retention.

🌟Key features

• Uptime and performance monitoring for websites, servers, and APIs
• Synthetic monitoring
• Real user monitoring (RUM) to track user behavior
• SMS, email, or third-party integrations (e.g., Slack, PagerDuty) alerts
• Public status pages
• Dashboards with detailed reports on performance, downtime, and response times

➕Pros

• Global location checks
• Customizable dashboards
• Strong alerting options with multiple integrations
• Detailed reporting and customizable dashboards for clear performance insights
• Public status pages for easy downtime communication with users

➖Cons

• Limited in-depth application performance monitoring (APM) features
• Some users may find the synthetic monitoring setup a bit complex
• Fewer advanced collaboration tools for incident management

💲Pricing

Uptime provides a generous 2-month free trial on all three of its plans when billed annually, excluding the custom option. The Starter plan is priced at $20 per month, offering 30 checks with a 5-minute frequency. The Essential plan starts at $67 per month, allowing 50 checks with a 3-minute frequency, while the Premium plan offers 1-minute checks for $285 per month. For teams with specific needs, the custom plan allows you to tailor features to your requirements, to only pay for what you need.

11. Raygun

Apart from basic web vitals and load times, Raygun offers great performance analytics based on different deploys. This is useful for correlating and improving performance over time.

Pricing is based on monthly sessions (per 10.000), which can be cheap for smaller projects, but quite expensive for sites with high traffic.

🌟Key features

• Real-time error and crash reporting for web, mobile, and desktop apps
• Application performance monitoring (APM)
• Real user monitoring (RUM)
• Dashboards for monitoring errors, crashes, and performance in one place
• Alerts and notifications via email, SMS, or third-party tools when issues arise

➕Pros

• Customizable dashboards
• Integrations with popular tools like Slack, Jira, GitHub, and Microsoft Teams

➖Cons

• Lacks some features specific to synthetic monitoring
• May require additional tools for infrastructure or log management

💲Pricing

Raygun offers separate pricing for its core services—Crash Reporting, Real User Monitoring (RUM), and Application Performance Monitoring (APM). Pricing starts at $40 per 100,000 errors for Crash Reporting, $80 per 100,000 sessions for RUM, and $80 per 100,000 traces for APM. Each service can scale based on usage, allowing businesses to tailor their plans based on their specific monitoring needs.

Tools summary:

Open-source monitoring tools

Simple and advanced tools that can be self-hosted and customized to a great extent.

12. Upptime

Upptime is a GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page manager. It uses GitHub actions, which allows a minimum interval of 5 minutes, which explains its monitoring frequency.

Upptime automatically opens a new issue in your GitHub repo. You can edit this repo and add additional information about the outage, including the root-cause analysis.

Recommended reading: Best open-source monitoring tools

🌟Key features

• Uptime monitoring for websites and APIs, powered by GitHub Actions
• Public status pages hosted on GitHub Pages to keep users informed of downtime
• Automated GitHub Issues for incidents and alerts
• Historical uptime and incident tracking with markdown-based reporting
• Integrates seamlessly with GitHub for version control and collaboration

➕Pros

• Free, without hosting with full control over the code
• Customizable monitoring intervals and locations
• Highly customizable and configurable based on your needs
• Strong community support with frequent updates and improvements

➖Cons

• No hosting
• Lacks some of the advanced features found in paid solutions (e.g., real user monitoring, synthetic transaction monitoring)

💲Pricing

Upptime is completely free as an open-source project hosted on GitHub. There are no fees for using the core features.

13. Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool with a UI that feels a lot like Uptime Robot.

It offers integration with more than 70 notification services, including Telegram, Discord, Slack, Email, and more. Uptime Kuma does not have a website. However, everything you need can be found on GitHub.

🌟Key features

• Uptime monitoring for websites, servers, and APIs
• Status pages
• Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, and more alerts
• HTTP(s), TCP, ping, and DNS checks
• Uptime statistics and detailed reporting

➕Pros

• Self-hosted, giving you full control over your data
• Free
• Highly customizable with support for various notification channels

➖Cons

• Requires self-hosting
• Lacks some advanced features like synthetic monitoring or real user monitoring (RUM)
• No native support for incident management or collaboration tools

💲Pricing

Uptime Kuma is entirely free and open-source, with no subscription fees. You can self-host it on your own infrastructure, which means the only costs involved are for the server hosting it.

14. Prometheus

Probably the most popular open-source monitoring tool - having over 42k stars on GitHub.

It has all the monitoring functionalities imaginable (from uptime to server or container monitoring) and offers wide customization opportunities and integrations. Especially when it comes to visualizations with Grafana - an open-source visualization tool with over 49k stars on GitHub.

Prometheus has a built-in alert manager that handles basic on-call alerting. However, for more options, a dedicated incident management tool (mentioned below) is recommended.

Recommended reading: Monitoring linux servers with Prometheus and Prometheus vs. Grafana comparison

🌟Key features

• Database and monitoring system
• Powerful query language (PromQL) for flexible querying of metrics
• Built-in alerting system integrated with Alertmanager for notifications
• Service discovery and automatic target configuration for dynamic environments
• Easy integration with visualization tools like Grafana for dashboards

➕Pros

• Free
• Active community
• Pull-based metrics collection (e.g., servers, databases, apps)
• Highly customizable with support for a wide variety of exporters and integrations
• Native alerting system with flexible configuration

➖Cons

• No built-in support for log management or tracing, requiring additional tools for full observability
• Lacks native support for real-time user monitoring or synthetic monitoring
• Storage can become complex for long-term metrics retention, requiring external solutions

💲Pricing

As an open-source project, Prometheus is free with no licensing or subscription fees.

15. Zabbix

Zabbix is an enterprise-build solution allowing you to monitor networks, servers, cloud, logs, databases, apps, and yes, websites.

Although powerful, it’s one of the tools that require a lot of learning. Its UX is very basic and honestly quite dated.

🌟Key features

• Monitoring for networks, servers, applications, and services
• Agent-based and agentless monitoring for flexibility in data collection
• Email, SMS, scripts, and integrations alerting
• Auto-discovery of network devices and services for easier setup and scaling
• Built-in support for SNMP, IPMI, and JMX monitoring

➕Pros

• Customizable dashboards
• Historical data storage
• Scalable from small setups to large enterprise environments

➖Cons

• No native support for synthetic monitoring or real user monitoring (RUM)
• Complex environments may require more resources and time to manage

💲Pricing

Zabbix is free.

Tools summary:

Incident management and On-call tools

These tools work in tandem with purely monitoring tools, offering advanced alerting options and on-call schedules.

Once a monitoring tool spots an incident, it sends the alert to the incident management tool, which then decides who, how, and when is someone (or everyone) alerted. For example, it can hold off a low-priority alert till the morning and then send a Slack message or immediately call the whole team in case of a severe incident.

🔔 What is incident management?

It’s the process used by the developer teams to respond to system failures (incidents) and restore normal service operations as quickly as possible. It can be broken down into four main parts:

• Monitoring: detecting incidents, usually via monitoring tools
• Communication: communicating incidents, usually via status page
• Resolution: working on resolving incidents, usually via incident management tools
• Learning: learning from incidents, by writing postmortem, usually via incident management tools

What is on-call?

On-call calendar is a set of scheduled duties that define which team member is responsible for incoming incident alerts. Being on-call means that you are the first person who will receive an alert when something goes wrong.

Recommended reading: What Is Incident Management? Beginner’s Guide and How to Create a Developer-Friendly On-Call Schedule in 7 steps

16. Pagerduty

Pagerduty is an established tool offering all the main capabilities an incident management tool needs:

• Customizable on-call scheduling
• Many alerting options
• Incident lifecycle for collaboration
• Plentiful integrations

It has probably all the functionality anyone could ever need, however, it’s compensated with more complex maintenance and the time it takes to onboard and learn.

Recommended reading: Pagerduty vs Opsgenie, side-by-side comparison

🌟Key features

• Real-time alerting and on-call scheduling
• Automated escalations and incident response workflows to reduce response times
• Dashboards for tracking incidents and team performance
• Advanced analytics and reporting for root cause analysis and incident resolution efficiency
• Email, SMS, push notifications, and phone call alerts
• Automation features

➕Pros

• Integrations with over 600 tools
• Customizable dashboards
• Automated workflows

➖Cons

• May require integration with other monitoring tools for a complete observability solution

💲Pricing

PagerDuty’s pricing is divided based on features - AiOps, automation, incident management, and customer service Ops. The only free plan is for the incident management response features, followed by professional, business, and enterprise tiers.

17. Better Stack: Incident Management

Better Stack combines incident management, monitoring, and status pages into a single product.

On top of regular on-call scheduling capabilities and alerting, Better Stack offers an easy importing and exporting of on-call calendars to and from Google and Microsoft calendars.

Better Stack's incident dashboard has a timeline where team members can be tagged with @ like in Slack and easily collaborate on any ongoing incidents.

🌟Key features

• Incident management with on-call scheduling and escalation policies
• Email, SMS, and Slack alerts with other popular integrations (intercom)
• Timeline view to track incident history and response in real-time
• Seamless integration with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana)
• Automated incident routing to the right teams based on escalation rules
• Public and private status pages to keep internal teams and users informed
• Post-mortem reports and insights to improve future incident handling

➕Pros

• Customizable on-call rotations, escalations, and alert policies
• Strong integration with monitoring tools and communication platforms
• Offers post-mortem reports for thorough incident analysis and prevention
• Automation and custom workflows

➖Cons

• Not a complete observability platform

💲Pricing

Better Stack offers a free plan with basic incident management and alerting features. With several additional features, there is a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pricing model that scales with your usage, making it a flexible solution for both small teams and larger organizations with complex incident management needs.

18. Opsgenie

A very similar tool to Pagerduty, with a slightly more modern design.

It’s a part of the Atlassian family of products, allowing for easy integrations of Trello and Jira as well as a unified Atlassian login.

Recommended reading: Pagerduty vs Opsgenie, side-by-side comparison

🌟Key features

• Incident management with on-call scheduling, escalations, and automated workflows
• Real-time alerting through SMS, email, mobile push, and integrations
• Advanced routing rules to ensure incidents reach the right team based on severity and schedule
• Incident timelines for tracking, managing, and collaborating on ongoing incidents
• Post-mortem reporting and analytics for continuous improvement
• Seamless integration with tools like Jira, Slack, Datadog, and AWS

➕Pros

• Customizable automatizations
• Integration with a wide range of monitoring, ticketing, and collaboration tools
• Post-incident analytics and reporting

➖Cons

• Lacks native performance or synthetic monitoring, requiring integration with other tools

💲Pricing

Opsgenie offers a free plan with basic alerting and on-call management. Annual plans start at $9 per user per month with a free 14-day trial, offering more advanced features like custom routing rules, incident analytics, and escalations. The standard plan, starts at $19 per user per month and includes advanced reporting, post-incident analysis, and integration with ITSM tools. Lastly, the enterprise plan starts at $29 per user per month and offers advanced incident management with enterprise collaboration and business visibility.

19. Splunk

Splunk on-call is an enterprise-focused tool, with all imaginable incident management capabilities.

🌟Key features

• Real-time data collection and analysis from any source (servers, applications, devices)
• Search and analytics engine with a query language (SPL) for customized insights
• Dashboards and visualizations
• Alerts and automated incident response workflows based on customizable triggers
• Machine learning-powered insights and anomaly detection
• Integrations with various platforms for data ingestion, alerting, and incident management

➕Pros

• Customizable on-call rotations and routing rules
• Customizable dashboards

➖Cons

• Requires significant setup and configuration to fully leverage its capabilities

💲Pricing

Splunk provides flexible pricing plans tailored to your business needs, focusing on three key areas: Security ($15), Observability ($60), and Platform ($75). Each category offers more detailed pricing options. For example, within Observability, you can choose between Infrastructure, App & Infra, or End-to-End monitoring, allowing you to pay only for the features you need. Pricing for specific services starts as low as $1 for synthetic monitoring, making it easier to customize your plan based on your priorities.

Tools summary:

Status page tools

Once a monitoring solution spots an issue it’s necessary to communicate it both internally to other teams (especially support) and externally to customers. Status page tools automate this process.

📣 Why use a status page?

The 4 main benefits of using a status page are:

• Saving customer support resources: by reducing customer support tickets during incidents
• Saving IT resources:  by automating the incident communication process
• Saving business resources:  by aligning operations to accommodate for incidents
• Supporting marketing and sales:  by building trust with current and potential customers

Recommended reading: What is a status page?

20. Better Stack: Status page

Better Stack Status pages are seamlessly integrated with monitoring and incident management.

Once a monitor is created it can be added with one click to the status page. Any incidents can be then automatically shown on the status page.

Both private (password-protected) and public status pages are available.

Custom domain status pages are available even on the free plans.

🌟Key features

• Customizable public status pages to display uptime and incident reports
• Real-time incident updates
• Historical uptime and performance tracking
• Custom branding options for a professional look and feel
• Email, SMS, Slack, Teams, and webhook notifications
• Easy integration with monitoring and incident management systems

➕Pros

• Simple to set up and fully customizable, allowing companies to reflect their branding
• Seamless integration with a wide range of monitoring tools
• Easy to set up
• Public and private status pages

➖Cons

• Some advanced customization features are available only in higher tiers

💲Pricing

Better Stack offers a free plan with 1 status page, 10 monitors & heartbeats, and monitoring capabilities. For advanced customization, incident automation, and integrations, the pricing is flexible with a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model. Paid plans start at $30/month for more features like historical reporting and custom domains.

21. Atlassian status page

Statuspage made by Atlassian is the main player on the status page market.

It offers a great selection of various integrations. Since all status changes need to be set up via integrations, almost all monitoring providers are available.

There are also great customer success integrations like Intercom allowing for live chat directly on the status page.

Be aware of the pricing that is based on subscribers.

Recommended reading: 7 best status page examples in 2023

🌟Key features

• Public and private status pages
• Real-time incident updates with customizable messaging for users
• Integrates with monitoring tools like Datadog, PagerDuty, and New Relic for automated incident updates
• Historical uptime tracking and analytics to build trust with users
• Subscriber notifications via email, SMS, or webhooks

➕Pros

• Easy integration with popular monitoring and alerting tools
• Customizable status pages with branding and personalized incident notifications
• The Subscription feature allows customers to receive real-time updates directly

➖Cons

• Some advanced features, like automation and advanced analytics, are only available on higher-tier plans
• The platform may require integration with other tools for a full incident management workflow

💲Pricing

Atlassian Statuspage offers a free plan with basic functionality for up to 10 users and a single status page. Paid plans start at $11 per month, offering more customization, incident templates, and up to 250 subscribers. For larger teams, higher-tier plans provide features like automation and additional integration options.

22. Statuspal

Very similar tool to Atlassian’s status page, with good multi-language support.

There is no free plan and the pricing is based on subscribers.

🌟Key features

• Public and private status pages
• Real-time incident updates with customizable notifications via email, SMS, or integrations
• Customizable branding and themes
• Integrates with monitoring tools like Pingdom, Datadog, and UptimeRobot for automated incident reporting
• Historical uptime and incident tracking

➕Pros

• Multi-language support is ideal for companies with global user bases
• Integration with a wide range of monitoring tools for automated status updates

➖Cons

• Limited advanced analytics and reporting

💲Pricing

Statuspal offers a 14-day trial with every plan, although it doesn’t include a free tier. The available pricing options are Hobby, Startup, Business, and Enterprise, each providing unlimited public and private status pages. The Hobby plan supports up to 5 team members, 500 subscribers, and 10 monitoring services. As you move up through the plans, the features scale as well, with the Enterprise plan offering a custom quote, SSO monitoring, and the ability to scale the number of users across various features.

23. Cachet (open-source)

Built on Bootstrap 3, Cachet offers responsive status pages that work well on any device.

A great benefit to anyone looking for extra security is that Cachet offers two-factor authentication, which is compatible with the Google Authenticator app.

Recommended reading: Best open-source status page tools

🌟Key features

• Open-source status page system
• Customizable public status pages
• Incident tracking and updates
• Scheduled maintenance notifications with customizable messaging
• Performance metrics tracking
• Easy integration with external monitoring tools

➕Pros

• Customizable themes for branding
• Free & open source
• Self-hosted, offering flexibility for developers and enterprises
• Active community and frequent updates for improved functionality

➖Cons

• Requires self-hosting and infrastructure management

💲Pricing

Cachet is completely free and open-source, with no licensing or subscription fees.

24. Statping (open-source)

Statping has slightly more features included in their dashboard compared to Cachet - mainly well-designed maintenance and status announcements.

However, the main benefit of Statping is the notifiers, which are built-in. These include Slack, Discord, Telegram, Webhooks, and emailing.

For those who don't want to host and maintain your status page, there is a hosted option as well.

🌟Key features

• Open-source, self-hosted status page, and monitoring system
• Real-time monitoring of websites, applications, and services
• Customizable public status pages
• Built-in alerting via email, SMS, Slack, and more for incident notifications
• Historical performance tracking

➕Pros

• Multi-language support and customizable branding
• Completely free and open-source

➖Cons

• Requires self-hosting

💲Pricing

Statping is completely free and open-source.

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What about complete observability platforms?

For more advanced users an alternative to having a dedicated website monitoring solution might be using an observability tool. These tools offer monitoring, logging, APM, and more in one place - making it easier to integrate and manage.

🔭 What is Observability?

Observability means that we can understand a system from the outside, without knowing its inner workings. Practically this means we can troubleshoot novel problems and improve the system’s overall performance.

To achieve observability we need to edit our code to emit signals like traces, metrics, and logs. Observability tools allow us to do this, with a present side effect of solving website monitoring for us in the process (the majority of tools offer some type of monitoring together with other features such as logging).

Recommended reading: What is Observability?

25. Better Stack: Logs

Better Stack observability stack is centered around Logs. Better Stack Logs centralizes logs from different services (from apps, servers, Kubernetes clusters, and yes even Heroku hosted websites) into one place.

Better Stack Logs has charting capabilities thanks to built-in Grafana. This allows us to draw conclusions from metrics and logs and optimize websites or any other services.

Its 1-click integration with Better Stack Uptime passes any irregularities in the form of an alert and notifies the right team members.

🌟Key features

• Log aggregation and analysis from multiple sources (servers, apps, databases)
• Easy integration with popular tools and platforms like AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Advanced search and filtering capabilities for efficient log exploration with SQL
• Customizable dashboards and visualizations
• Instant alerting based on log patterns and errors via email, Slack, and other integrations
• Long-term log retention and historical analysis for audit and compliance needs

➕Pros

• Simple and intuitive interface for log aggregation and monitoring
• Real-time log search with fast filtering and powerful query capabilities
• Custom team dashboards
• Instant alerting

➖Cons

• Lacks some advanced features for enterprise logging

💲Pricing

Better Stack Logs operates on a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pricing model, allowing users to scale based on their log volume and retention needs. There is a free plan offering 3 GB ingested logs per month retained for 3 days, following a paid plan where the price increases with the amount of data ingested and stored.

26. Datadog

Datadog offers a wide range of tools including RUM, synthetic monitoring, logging, APM, infrastructure monitoring, and more. It’s a very powerful platform with all the major observability features one might need.

🌟Key features

• Centralized log management and aggregation from multiple sources, including servers, containers, applications, and cloud services
• Real-time log analysis with powerful filtering, search, and tagging capabilities
• Seamless integration with Datadog’s infrastructure monitoring, APM, and security tools
• Performance dashboards
• Machine learning-powered insights for detecting anomalies and patterns in log data
• Built-in alerting based on log patterns and thresholds, with notifications via email, Slack, and other integrations
• Long-term log retention options to meet compliance and auditing needs

➕Pros

• Customizable dashboards
• Unified platform combining logs, metrics, and traces, providing a comprehensive observability solution
• Powerful search and filtering with custom tagging
• Highly customizable dashboards
• Flexible alerting system

➖Cons

• Steep learning curve for new users
• Advanced analytics and monitoring features may require additional setup and configuration
• Some users may find it overkill if they need only basic log management without full observability

💲Pricing

Datadog offers a pay-per-ingested-GB pricing model, with prices starting at $0.10 per GB of ingested logs, or $1.70 per million log events a month with 15-day retention. Additional costs can be incurred based on retention period and advanced features like live tailing and machine learning-powered insights.

27. New Relic

Very similar to Datadog and its main competitor. Offers similar functionality including RUM, synthetic monitoring, APM, infrastructure monitoring, error tracking, and log management.

🌟Key features

• Centralized log management integrated with full-stack observability (infrastructure, APM, and more)
• Real-time log ingestion, analysis, and search across distributed systems
• Performance dashboards
• Automated log parsing and tagging
• AI-driven anomaly detection and insights
• Advanced alerting based on log patterns with notifications via email, Slack, and other integrations

➕Pros

• Unified view of logs, metrics, and traces
• Customizable dashboards
• A unified platform providing logs, metrics, and traces in one view
• Real-time search and filtering with automated log tagging

➖Cons

• Pricing can escalate quickly for large-scale log ingestion and long retention periods
• Learning curve for new users
• May require additional configuration to fully leverage advanced features like AI insights
• Not ideal for users only seeking basic log management without full observability needs

💲Pricing

New Relic Logs operates on an ingestion-based pricing model. The free plan offers 100GB of data ingestion per month, with paid plans starting at $0.35 per GB ingested beyond the free tier. New Relic also offers flexible pricing options based on data retention, log volume, and additional observability features, making it scalable for organizations of any size.

28. Splunk

Splunk is an enterprise-first solution for observability. Apart from the on-call tool, it offers RUM, synthetic monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring as well as APM and log management.

The main downside is that Splunk on-call is not directly integrated with other Splunk apps, which means users need to integrate them like they would any other external app.

🌟Key features

• Centralized log management with real-time ingestion, search, and analysis from diverse sources (servers, apps, networks, cloud)
• Powerful search and analytics using the SPL (Search Processing Language) for customized log queries
• Log correlation with metrics and events for full-stack observability and incident response
• Performance dashboards
• Scalable log storage and long-term retention
• Alerting based on customizable thresholds and patterns with notifications via email, Slack, and other integrations

➕Pros

• Customizable dashboards
• Machine learning-powered insights for anomaly detection and predictive analytics

➖Cons

• Steeper learning curve due to SPL and the complexity of its platform
• Infrastructure management and setup may require significant resources, especially for self-hosted deployments

💲Pricing

Splunk offers a pricing model based on data ingestion. To get the quote, you have to contact sales.

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Final thoughts

As you can see, picking the right website monitoring tool depends mainly on the desired functionality you want to get out of it.

I would recommend writing down the things you really want to monitor on your website and then finding a solution to accommodate those needs. It’s tempting to go with a powerful solution because it has all the features. But it’s often the case that such features are never used and just result in more complex management, longer onboarding, and a higher price tag.

There are plenty of amazing tools around, so explore and pick the one that’s the most right for you.