Uptime.com
This monitoring solution provides comprehensive visibility into the availability and performance of websites and essential services.
Our verdict
Who it's for
Ensure your website and services are always available and performing optimally.
Who should look elsewhere
There is no free tier and the cheapest paid plan starts around 20 dollars per month, making it notably more expensive than budget alternatives like UptimeRobot that offer a free plan and paid tiers costing a fraction as much for comparable monitor counts.
Pros
- +Unmatched visibility into service availability.
- +Empowers engineering, operations, and SRE teams.
- +Helps maintain high uptime for essential services.
Cons
- −There is no free tier and the cheapest paid plan starts around 20 dollars per month, making it notably more expensive than budget alternatives like UptimeRobot that offer a free plan and paid tiers costing a fraction as much for comparable monitor counts.
- −Reviewers repeatedly cite complex configuration and a steep learning curve during initial setup, so getting checks, transaction tests, and alerting fully dialed in takes more effort than lighter-weight monitoring tools.
- −Transaction and synthetic checks are capped by a 60-second timeout, which users found hard to work around for longer multi-step testing flows that cannot be split into separate tests.
- −Users report false alarms and an excessive volume of notifications, along with weak or missing recovery and plan-change alerts, which can create alert fatigue and confusion.
Key features
- ✓Unmatched visibility
- ✓Availability monitoring
- ✓Empowers engineering teams
- ✓Empowers operations teams
- ✓Empowers SRE teams to monitor essential services
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website Monitoring | $9 | month | Uptime Monitoring; Transaction Monitoring; API Monitoring |