Pingdom vs RapidSpike
Pingdom
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RapidSpike
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| Figure | Pingdom | RapidSpike |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $16.50/mo | £199/mo |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 8 |
| Spec score · Uptime Monitoring Software | 8.9 (#4) | 8.1 (#19) |
| Spec score · Uptime monitoring services | 9.1 (#6) | 7.7 (#32) |
| Spec score · Synthetic Monitoring | 8.7 (#6) | 8.0 (#17) |
| Alert channels | Email,SMS,push notifications,Slack,PagerDuty,Opsgenie,VictorOps,HipChat,webhooks | Slack,Microsoft Teams,WhatsApp,PagerDuty,Pushover,Opsgenie,Splunk On-Call,ilert,Zendesk,Voice Call / SMS,Webhooks |
| Alerts | Incident alerts can be sent by SMS, email, push notification, or webhook, and Pingdom performs a second check before alerting to filter false positives. | Uptime errors are retested in another region and alerts are sent after two concurrent failures are established. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Integrations | Native alert integrations named by Pingdom include Slack, VictorOps, Opsgenie and PagerDuty. | Listed alert methods and integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, PagerDuty, Pushover, OpsGenie, Splunk On-Call, ilert, Zendesk, Voice/SMS, and webhooks. |
| Server monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| SSL expiry alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Support | The site links to customer support and support tickets and lists a sales contact phone number. | RapidSpike's contact page states an average response time of 15 minutes and lists managed live chat hours on weekdays. |
Plans
Pingdom
- Real User Monitoring$16.50 a month
- Synthetic Monitoring$16.50 a month
- Real User Monitoring annual calculator$198 a year
- Synthetic Monitoring annual calculator$198 a year
- EnterprisePriced on request
RapidSpike
- Business£199 a month
- Enhanced£499 a month
- EnterprisePrice not published
- Business (Synthetics)£199 a month
- Enhanced (Synthetics)£499 a month
- Enterprise (Synthetics)Priced on request
- Lite (CartShark)Price not published
- Plus (CartShark)Price not published
In their own words
RapidSpike
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