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Why teams switch from Instatus to OnlineOrNot
Need monitoring that catches outages faster? OnlineOrNot gives you 30-second checks during your free trial - Instatus only offers 2-minute checks until you pay. Both offer 30-second checks on paid plans.
Frustrated by monitor limits? Instatus limits you to 15 monitors on their free plan, 50 on Pro. OnlineOrNot's pricing is based on checks, not arbitrary limits - monitor as many endpoints as you need.
Want simpler, predictable pricing? Instatus pricing can get confusing with separate limits for monitors, team members, on-call members, and subscribers. OnlineOrNot has straightforward per-check pricing with everything included.
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Why pick OnlineOrNot
over Instatus?
| Key Features | Instatus | OnlineOrNot |
|---|---|---|
| Check frequency (trial) | 2 minutes | 30 seconds |
| Check frequency (paid) | 30 seconds | 30 seconds |
| Monitor limits | 15-1,000 (plan dependent) | Unlimited (pay per check) |
| Multi-location checks | Yes | 7 global regions |
| Status pages | Yes (primary focus) | Yes, included |
| Custom domains | Paid plans only | All plans |
| SMS alerts | Pro plan and up | All plans |
| Slack integration | Yes | Yes |
| PagerDuty integration | Yes | Yes |
| Cron job monitoring | Limited | Built-in heartbeat monitoring |
| API monitoring | Basic | Full API validation |
| Pricing model | Per-seat + monitor limits | Simple per-check pricing |
Monitoring-first approach vs status page-first
Instatus is primarily a status page tool. They've added monitoring, but it's not their core focus. OnlineOrNot was built monitoring-first, with status pages as a natural complement.
Faster detection means faster resolution. OnlineOrNot checks every 30 seconds on all plans and verifies from multiple global locations before alerting. Catch issues in seconds, not minutes.
No arbitrary limits. Instead of worrying about how many monitors you're allowed, OnlineOrNot's per-check pricing lets you monitor exactly what you need. Add a new service? Just add a check.
Switch from Instatus in minutes:
Sign up and add your checks
Create your OnlineOrNot account and add your URLs. We start monitoring immediately with 30-second checks from multiple locations.
Connect your alerts
Set up notifications via Slack, Email, SMS, or PagerDuty. All alert types are available on all plans - no upselling required.
Create your status page
Build your public status page with your custom domain. Your uptime data flows automatically - no manual updates needed.
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
- 15.9M
- Users
- 5,858
- Detected incidents last week
- 1,124
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
Bet on indie hackers 🚀
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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