Oh Dear vs Solarwinds

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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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?	$0.31	$0.31
Free trial?	30 days	30 days
Uptime locations?	16	100
Real user and transaction checks?	No	Yes
Lighthouse, SSL, DNS, Domain, Sitemap, Cron, Health monitoring?	Yes	Yes
Status pages?	Unlimited	Unlimited

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

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Cost per monitor?

$0.31

$0.90

Free trial?

30 days

Uptime locations?

100

Real user and transaction checks?

Yes

Lighthouse, SSL, DNS, Domain, Sitemap, Cron, Health monitoring?

Yes

Status pages?

Unlimited

1 per check

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Frequently asked questions

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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