How is Oh Dear different from Solarwinds?

Solarwinds Pingdom provides advanced monitoring features such as 'real user' and 'transaction' monitoring. Oh Dear offers straightforward, no-fuss, monitoring essentials for your entire website with a clean user interface. We believe in keeping things simple so you can focus on running your application.

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Oh Dear vs the competition

What we have that Solarwinds doesn't

1. Intuitive interface

Our UI is designed with simplicity in mind making navigation a breeze allowing you to monitor your sites effortlessly.

2. Unlimited notifications

Oh Dear offers unlimited notifications configurations across Email, SMS, Slack, Webhook, Teams, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Telegram and more

3. Monitor everything

We provide uptime, performance, lighthouse, DNS, SSL, domain, cron and health monitoring. We also check every single page for broken links and mixed content.

Oh Dear compared with Solarwinds

Cost per monitor?
Oh Dear
$0.31
Solarwinds
$0.90
Free trial?
Oh Dear
30 days
Solarwinds
30 days
Uptime locations?
Oh Dear
16
Solarwinds
100
Real user and transaction checks?
Oh Dear
No
Solarwinds
Yes
Lighthouse, SSL, DNS, Domain, Sitemap, Cron, Health monitoring?
Oh Dear
Yes
Solarwinds
No
Status pages?
Oh Dear
Unlimited
Solarwinds
1 per check

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Frequently asked questions

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Oh Dear offers unlimited status pages with every plan. You can also group your sites into as many different public or private status page as you need with your branding. We also support custom domains, badges, subscriptions and translations.

Pingdom supports email, SMS, and webhook. Oh Dear also provides integrations with Slack, Teams, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Pushover, Telegram and Discord. You can also manage notification configurations with our API.

In addition to uptime and performance monitoring Pingdom provides, Oh Dear also monitors lighthouse scores, DNS, SSL, domain, cron and health monitoring. We also check every single page on your website for broken links and mixed content. Pingdom provides 'real user' and 'transaction' services.

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