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Why teams are switching from expensive Pingdom
Tired of expensive per-monitor pricing? Pingdom's enterprise pricing quickly adds up when you need to monitor multiple services. OnlineOrNot's usage-based pricing is more predictable and often cheaper than Pingdom's per-monitor fees.
Need faster, more reliable monitoring? OnlineOrNot checks every 30 seconds with multi-location verification, eliminating false positives while detecting issues faster than Pingdom's standard intervals.
Need more than just HTTP pings? OnlineOrNot monitors cron jobs, scheduled tasks, SSL certificate expiry, and supports custom HTTP headers/POST requests. Plus team features and status pages that Pingdom either lacks or charges premium for.
Why pick OnlineOrNot
over Pingdom?
| Key Features | Pingdom | OnlineOrNot |
|---|---|---|
| Check frequency | 60 seconds (1 min minimum) | 30 seconds |
| False-alarm verification | Basic | Multi-location verification |
| Pricing model | Per monitor pricing | Usage-based ($2+ per check) |
| Cron job/scheduled task monitoring | No | Yes |
| Team collaboration & shared dashboards | Enterprise only | All plans |
| Advanced notification routing | Limited customization | Full control |
| Custom status pages with branding | Expensive add-on | All plans |
| SSL certificate monitoring | Basic alerts | Advanced with expiry tracking |
| API & webhook integrations | Limited | Extensive integrations |
| Customer support quality | Tiered support | Direct founder access |
Same features as Pingdom, better pricing model
Better pricing model. OnlineOrNot provides the same reliability and features as Pingdom with transparent usage-based pricing at $2 per check. Compare the math for your monitoring needs to see which pricing model works better.
Beyond basic uptime monitoring. Monitor cron jobs, scheduled tasks, SSL certificates, and APIs with custom headers. Get comprehensive infrastructure visibility that Pingdom charges enterprise prices for.
Designed for actual development workflows. Route alerts to different team members based on time/service, create incident timelines, and run status pages on your own domain - all included instead of expensive add-ons.
Seamless migration from Pingdom:
Export your Pingdom configuration
Send us your current Pingdom monitor setup and notification preferences. We'll analyze your monitoring needs and create a cost-effective migration plan.
We handle the complete setup
Our team recreates all your monitors with enhanced settings, configures your team access, sets up advanced notifications, and enables features you didn't have with Pingdom.
Enhanced monitoring with better pricing
Within 24 hours, enjoy faster 30-second monitoring, cron job tracking, team collaboration, and branded status pages - all with transparent, usage-based pricing.
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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
- 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
Frequently asked questions
Software teams ❤️ OnlineOrNot
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
- 11.5M
- Users
- 3,784
- Detected incidents last week
- 12,985
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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