Distill Web Monitor vs SolidPing

Distill Web Monitor tracks selected website or document content on a schedule, compares it for changes, and sends alerts. Local monitors run in a browser or on the user's computer; cloud monitors run on Distill's servers without requiring the device to stay on. Users can select a whole page or a portion visually, then refine the selection with XPath, CSS, regular expressions, or JavaScript. Monitor types include webpages, PDFs, JSON, Word, XML, feeds, uptime, and sitemaps. Alert rules can use text matches, numeric ranges, and regular expressions. Notifications include email, SMS, phone push, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and webhooks. Macros can fill forms and click, and API access is available on request. Local checks can run at intervals as short as five seconds; Free cloud checks start at six-hour intervals. The free plan costs nothing and includes 25 monitors, five cloud monitors, 1,000 cloud checks per month, two devices, and 30 email alerts per month. Starter begins at $15 a month. Unused resources expire at the billing period's end, and cloud checks count in ten-second units.

SolidPing is an open-source uptime monitoring platform available as hosted cloud software or self-hosted software. It offers 40 check types, including HTTP, TCP, DNS, databases, email servers, Docker, Kubernetes, headless-browser and custom JavaScript checks, with intervals as frequent as every 10 seconds. The product lists monitoring from six locations, server monitoring and SSL expiry alerts. Alerts can reach a wide range of chat services, email, webhooks, PagerDuty, push services, SMS or voice through Twilio. Rotation schedules, overrides, iCal feeds and multi-step escalation policies are included even on Free. Public status pages can show sections, subscribers, incident updates, uptime and response-time metrics; custom domains are metered by plan. SolidPing also offers a REST API and MCP endpoint. The self-hosted version is a Go binary using SQLite or PostgreSQL, licensed under AGPL-3.0. Hosted plans run from Free to Scale, and hosted account, monitoring and incident data and backups are stored in France on OVHcloud. SolidPing states it does not currently hold ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification.