Better Uptime

Avantages

Very easy to use and endless options are available.

Inconvénients

It's ideal to use for a few sites, but It's a little clumsy when you have 100+ sites.

Avantages

Better Uptime is the only tool I've used that actually resulted in better uptime. This tool does everything perfectly from monitoring to reporting. Everything is customizable down to every detail. Every time something happens Better Uptime is there to make sure you are aware of the problem and has all the information you need to quickly rectify it as well as preventing it from happening again.

Inconvénients

Everything I thought could be improved has been improved by the fantastic team behind Better Uptime. The only small thing I am still missing is support for more languages on the status page.

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Avantages

Free domain on status page
Pretty fast support for free users

Inconvénients

Cannot use Google analytics on status page unless i choose paid plan
Cannot use Webhooks for the same reason as google analytics
Really, and i mean REALLY limited choosing of services to integrate for free

Avantages

I love how polished Better Uptime is firstly, that makes a great deal of your experience better when using and managing the product. Secondly the featureset is huge, with a great emphasis on teams and incident management.

Inconvénients

I can see it getting expensive when I run out of website slots on my current plan.

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Avantages

It's so easy to use. It does one thing, and it does it well. Setting up my status page, and connecting it to a custom domain, took me less than five minutes. I haven't had to improve it since.

Inconvénients

I honestly can't think of something I didn't like. I actually emailed the dev team to say well done because using it was so enjoyable!

Avantages

Better Uptime was so simple and quick to set up. We had been using another good tool for many years, and I didn't think that this system would surpass that, but surpass it did. The reporting is so much better, the flexibility over the time periods for monitoring and configuration for checking systems with sign on walls was so much simpler and easier to set up that any other system I had come across.

The 'on call' scheduler is also really cool and useful. No more midnight callouts for me when a server goes down because I can get other team members to take care of them without having to set on/off times.

They have a rich set of integrations with a lot of communication and server management platforms, so I don't think you will run out of ways to be informed when a server goes offline.

Really appreciate the way we can set up multiple status pages too - we have one for our customers, and one for our internal devops team to monitor non customer facing servers. Additionally, we actually save costs on TWO other services that we can retire, because Better Uptime has heartbeat monitoring as well. We haven't really used this part yet, but can't wait to try it out.

Inconvénients

Not much to dislike at all. I would have loved a raw HTTPS Webhook for server incidents so we can tie it into our existing paging system, but their team have said this is coming so I can be patient.

Avantages

If you are living or at least side income from any website, you definitely need to check your Website's availability. So a website uptime checker is what needed for you to check your server's availability in real time. And that is how you can track your business. If its down, at least you can talk to support to fix the issues so that your business can still kick back on time.

The Better Uptime team made the uptime monitoring like piece of cake. You can check your Websites uptime in realtime with a minute interval and can get notified if there is any downtime via SMS or call. Yes, you can still get notified via Slack and email or so. But getting notified via SMS or Call is what makes you free from being online forever.

Inconvénients

To be honest nothing. I can't point out even a single thing that I didn't like. May be being a small marketer, I really got what I mostly needed for my usecase. So I don't need to ask more from it.

Avantages

It is a very easy to use tool, you only have to create the domains and you already have the website monitored

Inconvénients

The users and calendars part is a bit complicated to understand, but once you understand it, it is very useful.

Avantages

I love the status page. It gives a bird's eye on all the servers. The free version is very generous with up to ten servers. I heard about their service on AppSumo. They regularly add new features to the monitor. Best of all is the ease of use and setting it up. It has an email, in-app messages, SMS, and phone call notifications. I woudl recommend Better Uptime over the competition because of the price and ease of use.

Inconvénients

Response time across the regions is for the last 24 hours. I think it would be better to select a longer period.

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Avantages

Ease of deployment - sign in, add a URL and away you go. You can set the site to be monitored every 30 seconds if you wish which is a great feature for such a low priced tool.

Inconvénients

Its a fairly new company and there have been a couple of glitches, but nothing to stop me using it to its full potential - The error reporting has been 100% but i've had the odd site that didn't auto resolve the incident - I believe better uptime have now fixed that issue

Avantages

We like how easy it is to set it up.
Once you have the url or ip of the service. The system will be able to start operating immediately. System administrators usually know how to configure it. It has a very intuitive user interface. The app makes things a lot easier. Sometimes we can't check the mail, so having a personalized notification on the smartphone doesn't help to identify what problems there are, without even seeing the phone. It is these small details that enhance these systems.

Inconvénients

I would like to be able to self host the system for internal service monitoring within VPN networks. But for this, there are other alternatives

Avantages

You can fully customize the monitoring test endpoint to call (maybe require a POST call? perhaps my not ok response is a 400 HTTP status?) and also create escalation policies to notify incidents. It's great that It can notify someone in charge of it based on a calendar and escalate it to all the team if the incident got no solution.
The status page you can add is fully customizable as well, and you know how important it is to have a professional-looking status page.

The best feature is you can receive a call on a phone number if an incident is occurring. Fantastic!

Inconvénients

The thing I don't like is that you can't have a dashboard with the current status of every monitor you set up on more than one team. It's great that you can have an oversight view of a team's monitors, but if you have more than one team, you have to switch them to have a global view of the situation. The mobile app works fine for notifications but doesn't have any other feature, and it just lets you go to the web app dashboard through the mobile browser.

Avantages

I operate several websites and needed a tool that would alert me as quickly as possible when the server was down. Better Uptime does this job better than any other software I've used. It checks my websites every 30 seconds so I am always able to respond to issues very quickly.

Inconvénients

For what I need the software to do, there isn't one negative comment I can say about Better Uptime.

Avantages

It independently monitors your site for any downtime and lets you know if/when it happens. It lets uses know the status and history of how reliable your service are.

Inconvénients

There should be another tier for the costs for startups, very small businesses with less than 10 websites to check. The jump from free to paid is too much.

Avantages

I like the simple interface. It doesn't overwhelm you with too many options but still provides lots of integrations and functionality. For example, creating an alert based on URL or with keyword is a snap.

I'm on the free tier and am very pleased with their service updates and weekly emails.

Inconvénients

This is a nit, but the timezone shows as HDT. I don't see where I could change the timezone to one more appropriate. I prefer GMT or my local zone.

Avantages

Every website that i manage i use this software to be the monitoring of it. I love this so much and i cant stress enough how good it is to work with.

Inconvénients

It is a little expensive for a software, but the value for me has skyrocketed.

Avantages

In particular, I think it is one of the best tools for monitoring activities. Easy to use and I really like the variety of features and customization options.

Inconvénients

Particularly, so far I have nothing tangible to complain about

Avantages

Really solid infrastructure, interface, lightning fast notifications, status pages are awesome. Clean Ui and intuitive dashboard.

Inconvénients

None that i can think of. Will be back to update

Avantages

It is very easy to create monitors for webpages, in just a few clicks you are able to generate a simple monitor, but when needed you can use the advanced settings to create very specific monitors for your use case.

Its also possible to check the heartbeat of your application by simply making a request to a custom generated URL. I was able to create a heartbeat monitor in just a minute to notify me when my importer program ever stops running.

Finally, you're also able to create a status page. They made this, again, very simple and intuitive for a basic status page with enough options in the advanced settings for when you have more specific needs.

Inconvénients

I have yet to find a real downside to this product.

Avantages

Easy to set up. I was able switch all websites being monitored over quickly and easily.

Inconvénients

Been using Better Uptime for over 6 months, have not had any issues.

Avantages

I got the unlimited monitors and status pages, and now i can monitor all my client websites and also send let them check the quality of hosting that i use (earlier i just use to say but now i can show them), and its all through Better Uptime. Great Product, Great Support.

Inconvénients

I wish there was a way to integrate Google Sheet or download the Incidents or a way to download incidents so we can email our clients, if they are using some other host for their website, we might be able to move them around and increase our revenue

Avantages

BetterUptime is one of the best monitoring solutions I have used. It has a sleek and intuitive design, rich feature set, and good customization options. Especially love that you can create multiple, personalized status pages and easily associate with monitored services.

Inconvénients

Nothing really yet that I disliked, perhaps only automatic dark mode for status pages would be cool.

Avantages

I was cautious at first, but Better Uptime surprised me in a really good way. It works very well and I could easily setup notifications for slack and email. I started using some features that I wasn’t looking for at first and they really made a lot of things easier for me. All in all, the service is very convenient and extremely polished for a company that hasn’t been around for long.

Inconvénients

I tried to think of something, but there isn’t anything really. It’s just a reliable piece of software.

Avantages

I use it to get notified if my customers sites every go down.

Inconvénients

I tried to get the android app working and couldn't

Avantages

Better Uptime is super simple to use and get started. The dashboard is easy to follow and just a neat tool in general. With Better Uptime, I make my website host accountable for my server's performance.

Inconvénients

Nothing - I love it and has literally saved me money from my website's downtime.