Apex Ping vs UptimeRobot

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Apex Ping

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Apex Ping vs Uptime Robot: What are the differences?

What is Apex Ping? Uptime and performance monitoring tool with rich reporting & alerting. Modern uptime and performance monitoring for websites and APIs, with rich reporting, flexible alerting, and competitive pricing. More than just HEAD requests: choose an HTTP method, headers, and body for any request.

What is Uptime Robot? Free website uptime monitor. Uptime Robot is all about helping you to keep your websites up. It monitors your websites every 5 minutes and alerts you if your sites are down.

Apex Ping and Uptime Robot can be primarily classified as "Website Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Apex Ping are:

  • Simple
  • Rich reporting
  • Flexible alerts

On the other hand, Uptime Robot provides the following key features:

  • http(s): that's perfect for website monitoring. The service regularly sends requests (which are the same as if a visitor is browsing your website) to the URL and decides if it is up or down depending on the HTTP statuses returned from the website (200-success, 404-not found, etc.)
  • ping: this is good for monitoring a server. Ping (ICMP) requests are sent and up/down status is decided according to the "if responses are received or not". Ping is not a good fit for monitoring websites as a website (its IP) can respond to ping requests while it is down (which means that the site is down but the server hosting the site is up)
  • keyword: checks if a keyword exists or not exists in a web page
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Pros of Apex Ping
Pros of UptimeRobot
  • 2
    So simple
  • 22
    Free tier
  • 18
    Easy to understand
  • 14
    Instant notifications
  • 8
    Simpler than Pingdom
  • 5
    Cheap but Reliable
  • 5
    Free public status pages
  • 4
    Keyword monitoring
  • 4
    Public Status Page
  • 3
    Mobile App
  • 1
    Receive twitter status message
  • 0
    Good api
  • 0
    SSL Checking

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Cons of Apex Ping
Cons of UptimeRobot
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    • 3
      False-Positives
    • 2
      Consistently bad UI
    • 1
      Confusing UI
    • 0
      Extremely bad UI experience

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    What is Apex Ping?

    Modern uptime and performance monitoring for websites and APIs, with rich reporting, flexible alerting, and competitive pricing. More than just HEAD requests: choose an HTTP method, headers, and body for any request.

    What is UptimeRobot?

    It is all about helping you to keep your websites up. It monitors your websites every 5 minutes and alerts you if your sites are down.

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    What are some alternatives to Apex Ping and UptimeRobot?
    Pingdom
    Pingdom is an uptime monitoring service. When problems happen with a site that Pingdom monitors, it immediately alerts the owner so the problem can be taken care of.
    Better Uptime
    Better Stack is a radically better infrastructure monitoring platform that calls the right person on your team if anything goes wrong. Schedule on-call duties, receive helpful alerts, and collaborate on solving incidents faster than ever.
    StatusCake
    Monitoring a website is one thing – finding the best way to alert you to downtime another. At StatusCake we give you as many options as possible to decide when & how often you’re contacted. Whether it’s by email, SMS, push notifications for iOS & Android or integration with third party apps including Zapier and PagerDuty – you decide how you want to be alerted and when!
    updown.io
    updown is an online service that checks your website's status by periodically sending an HTTP HEAD request to the URL of your choice. It then notifies you by email or sms when your website is not responding correctly.
    Site24x7
    Site24x7 is an all-in-one monitoring solution that allows you to monitor every part of your IT infrastructure from Websites to Applications, to Servers (both on-premise and on the cloud) as well as your Network infrastructure.
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