Cronitor vs FireHydrant
Cronitor
cronitor.io
FireHydrant
firehydrant.comSide by side
| Figure | Cronitor | FireHydrant |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $2/mo | $25/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 3 |
| Spec score · IT Alerting Software | 8.3 (#7) | 8.3 (#8) |
| Analytics | Its web analytics track traffic, errors, and performance using a lightweight cookie-free script. | Incident analytics track metrics such as MTTA, MTTM, and resolution time, with filters for teams, services, severity, and other properties. |
| Integrations | Listed alert integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Telegram, Lark, PagerDuty, Datadog On-Call, OpsGenie, Splunk On-Call, and webhooks. | Listed integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira Cloud, Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, GitHub, ServiceNow, Zoom, and Terraform. |
| Support | Business includes email and chat support, while Enterprise includes priority support and a dedicated engineer. | The Free plan has no support level listed; Pro includes standard support and Enterprise includes premium support, a dedicated customer success manager, and a solutions engineer. |
Plans
In their own words
Cronitor
Cronitor monitors cron jobs, background workers, scheduled agent tasks, websites, APIs, and heartbeats. For job monitoring, it retains each run's status, metrics, and output to help investigate failures and delays. Website and API checks run from 12+ worldwide locations and can test availability, content, performance, and certificates. Heartbeat monitoring can alert when expected activity from agents, queues, devices, or other systems stops. Monitors can feed public or private status pages, while a lightweight cookie-free script tracks web traffic, errors, and performance. Alert integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Telegram, Lark, PagerDuty, Datadog On-Call, OpsGenie, Splunk On-Call, and webhooks. The Hacker plan costs nothing and includes five monitors, email and Slack alerts, one status page, 50 included subscribers, and a fastest check frequency of five minutes. It excludes SMS alerts and premium integrations. Business costs $2 a month per monitor plus $5 a month per user, billed monthly with no contract. Cronitor lists API, Linux, and web platforms and offers a 14-day trial.
FireHydrant
FireHydrant is an incident management platform combining on-call scheduling, alerting, automation, incident response and retrospectives. Runbooks can create Slack channels, start Zoom meetings, open Jira tickets and post incident updates. Its service catalog maps services and components to owners and can sync ownership and metadata from existing systems. Signals supports rotations, escalation policies, alert routing and notifications through SMS, voice, push, email and Slack. Teams can page, acknowledge, escalate and hand off alerts from Slack or Microsoft Teams. FireHydrant AI can generate incident summaries and status page updates, transcribe video meetings, provide context and draft retrospectives. Analytics track MTTA, MTTM and resolution time. Listed integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira Cloud, Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, GitHub, ServiceNow, Zoom and Terraform. The Free plan permits up to 10 responders, two runbooks and three integrations. Pro costs $25.00 per month per responder, billed annually, and has a 14-day trial without a credit card. FireHydrant states it is SOC 2 Type II compliant and supports SAML 2.0 and SCIM.