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Why teams are switching from Better Stack
Don't need the full observability suite? Better Stack (formerly Better Uptime) bundles uptime monitoring with logs, metrics, and incident management. If you just need solid uptime monitoring, you're paying for features you don't use. OnlineOrNot focuses on doing uptime monitoring exceptionally well.
Want simpler pricing? Better Stack's pricing can get complex with different products and usage tiers. OnlineOrNot offers transparent usage-based pricing at $2 per check with all features included - no surprises.
Need the essentials done right? OnlineOrNot provides 30-second monitoring, multi-location verification, cron job monitoring, SSL tracking, and beautiful status pages. Everything you need, nothing you don't.
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Why pick OnlineOrNot
over Better Stack?
| Key Features | Better Stack | OnlineOrNot |
|---|---|---|
| Check frequency | 30 seconds | 30 seconds |
| False-alarm verification | Multi-location | Multi-location verification |
| Pricing model | Per-product pricing (uptime, logs, metrics) | Usage-based ($2+ per check) |
| Cron job/scheduled task monitoring | Heartbeats feature | Yes |
| Team collaboration & shared dashboards | Yes | All plans |
| Advanced notification routing | On-call scheduling included | Full control |
| Custom status pages with branding | Yes | All plans |
| SSL certificate monitoring | Yes | Advanced with expiry tracking |
| Log management | Included (separate pricing) | Not included (focused on uptime) |
| Customer support quality | Good | Direct founder access |
Focused monitoring, simpler pricing
Pay only for uptime monitoring. Better Stack bundles multiple products together. If you only need uptime monitoring, OnlineOrNot's focused approach means you're not paying for log management or metrics you won't use.
Transparent usage-based pricing. OnlineOrNot charges $2 per check with all features included. No complex product bundles, no usage tiers to navigate, no surprise overages.
Everything you need for uptime. Monitor websites, APIs, cron jobs, and SSL certificates. Get alerted via Slack, Discord, PagerDuty, SMS, or webhooks. Run beautiful status pages on your domain.
Seamless migration from Better Stack:
Export your Better Stack configuration
Send us your current Better Stack monitor setup and notification preferences. We'll analyze your monitoring needs and create a migration plan.
We handle the complete setup
Our team recreates all your monitors with matching settings, configures your team access, and sets up your notification channels exactly how you had them.
Focused monitoring with simpler pricing
Within 24 hours, enjoy the same 30-second monitoring with multi-location verification, plus cron job tracking and branded status pages - all with transparent pricing.
Trusted by software teams worldwide
OnlineOrNot is built for scale and runs millions of uptime checks every week. Thousands of software teams, including some of the world's leading brands have already made the switch from other uptime monitors.
- Uptime Checks last week
- 15.8M
- Users
- 5,914
- Detected incidents last week
- 1,334
OnlineOrNot has been absolutely fantastic for my bot, Noti. It completely transformed the way I monitor online services.
The real-time notifications keep me in the loop about any downtime, allowing me to take immediate action. If you're looking for a reliable way to monitor your project's status, I highly suggest using OnlineOrNot.
Adam HMaker of Noti
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I tried @RozenMD's OnlineOrNot uptime monitoring, and for a few days got notifications of 2min down time.
I thought that OnlineOrNot was wrong as Uptime Robot wasn't reporting anything.
Turns out it was the other way around.
Khaled BentoumiFounder of Data to Page
We've been using OnlineOrNot and it has been a life saver.
It, by far, has been one of the most responsive uptime services we've tried and it only gets better and better as time goes on.
Alex BowlesFounder of Casterlabs
I just set up some site aliveness checks for @Archium_io with @RozenMD's OnlineOrNot.
Took me less than five minutes and it was completely self-explanatory, not to mention gorgeous. Seriously good experience.
Great job, Max! 👏👏
Graham LeaFounder of Archium.io
OnlineOrNot by @RozenMD is all one needs
It is easy to set up and very reliable. I have been using it for almost an year now.
Rajat SaxenaFounder of CourseLit
I'm using OnlineOrNot to monitor my @cloakist customers' sites, so I can respond quickly if they stop working
Love it. Super clean interface, very intuitive. Particularly impressed at how it can wait for full page load
Thanks @RozenMD for making this awesome tool!
Louis BarclayFounder of Cloakist
OnlineOrNot does the job for me.
Charles MillerSoftware Architect at Atlassian
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Incidents happen.
Get alerted immediately.
OnlineOrNot detects problems and lets your team know before your customers do.
- Reliable alerts where you need them:
- SMS
- Slack/Discord
- Microsoft Teams
- Incident.io/PagerDuty/OpsGenie/Grafana OnCall/Spike
- Webhooks
30-second setup.
Simple to setup,
yet deeply configurable.
You don't have to be an engineer to set it up.
Simple and effective monitoring that lets you sleep a bit better at night.
Also, I just want to thank you for your responsiveness and help.
This is the best uptime monitoring we have seen so far and saved us a ton of time building our own version.
— Engineering manager, SaaS company
- Super-fast checks.
- Check as often as every 30 seconds, and catch the issues that take your website down for less than a minute.
- Configurable HTTP requests.
- You can configure the HTTP method, headers, and body for each check.
- Instant alerts.
- Alerts in the tools you already use: Email, SMS, Slack, Discord, Incident.io, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Grafana OnCall, Spike, and more.
- No false positives.
- OnlineOrNot runs every check at least twice before sending an alert, with options for even more.
- SSL Monitoring.
- OnlineOrNot will check your SSL certificates for expiration and other issues, and alert you if there's a problem.
- Geo-specific & Multi-location Checks.
- You can choose to run uptime checks from one region, or all of them.
Build trust.
Keep your customers informed
Your customers rely on your products and services. Let them know your real-time status with an automatically updating status page.
- Minimize support load.
- Add your customers as subscribers to your status page, and send consistent incident updates via email.
- Private status pages.
- Share internal status updates with your teammates and internal stakeholders with a private status page.
We pitch our website to investors and influencers all the time. If the website is down, we look like amateurs.
We know our website is online before these important meetings thanks to OnlineOrNot.
— early start-up founder
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