15 website monitoring services compared
We have compared 15 most popular monitoring service providers – from a point of view of a webmaster looking for a simple availability service for one website.
Our observations:
- Most of the providers don’t offer 1 minute monitoring. The ones that do, usually charge a lot for it.
- Almost every profider enables customers to try the service with 14- or 30-day free trial period.
- All the providers send email alerts, most of them SMS alerts, only a few generate RSS feed with notifications.
- The number of monitoring servers vary from 1 up to 37. Although 3-4 are perfectly enough.
Here is a detailed table with all the information we have gathered from provider’s websites. We hope it will help you make the proper choice.
| Service Provider | annual cost (USD) | trial period (days) | notifications | monitoring stations | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cheapest plan | 1 minute monitoring | SMS | RSS feed | ||||
| 1stwarning.com | 59,40 | - | 30 | yes | via email* | no | 2 |
| alertfox.com | 588,00 | - | 30 | yes | no | no | 3 |
| alertmefirst.com | 162,00 | - | 30 | yes | no | no | 1 |
| atwatch.com | 155,88 | - | 14 | yes | via email* | no | 6 |
| dotcom-monitor.com | 959,88 | 4199,88 | 30 | yes | yes(0) | no | 12 |
| netwhistle.com | 75,96 | - | 14 | yes | via email* | no | 6 |
| periscopeit.co.uk | 163,20 | 897,60 | 30 | yes | yes(48-720) | no | 5 |
| pingdom.com | 119,40 | 125,40 | 30 | yes | yes(20-200) | no | 6 |
| serviceuptime.com | 59,40 | 630,00 | - | yes | yes(0) | no | 10 |
| siterecon.com | 119,40 | - | 14 | yes | via email* | yes | ? |
| siteuptime.com | 60,00 | - | - | yes | yes(0) | no | 4 |
| uptrends.com | 271,44 | - | 30 | yes | yes(240) | yes | 22 |
| watchmouse.com | 150,00 | 5940,00 | 30 | yes | yes(240-500) | no | 42 |
| website-monitoring.com | 59,00 | 59,00 | 14 | yes | yes(200) | yes | 3 |
| websitepulse.com | 60,00 | 228,00 | 30 | yes | via email* | no | 37 |
*via email – email notifications sent to chosen USA cell network operators’ gateways. No actual SMS notifications.
