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Vigil vs Better Uptime: What are the differences?

What is Vigil? Simple website-monitoring and downtime notifications. Whether you have one site, or twenty, Vigil is a simple and reliable service for monitoring the uptime and performance of your websites. View all your sites on our beautiful client dashboards, get email and push notifications when there is a problem, and receive weekly email summary reports that let you know how your sites are doing over the long-term.

What is Better Uptime? Beautiful uptime monitoring with phone calls and on-call scheduling. Reliable uptime monitoring and incident management that just works. Get notified instantly when an incident happens with a phone call, text, email, Slack message, and any other notification. Schedule on-call duties from your favorite calendar app and get useful debug info with every alert.

Vigil and Better Uptime belong to "Website Monitoring" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Vigil are:

  • Simple
  • Reliable
  • Monitor Web Sites

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

  • Uptime monitoring — get a phone call, text, and email when your website goes down
  • Sub-minute and multi-location checks — sampling interval of 30 seconds from multiple locations ensures you get notified quickly
  • 2,000+ Integrations — integrate with thousands of apps you already use like Heroku, Datadog, Grafana, Slack, and PagerDuty
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Pros of Better Stack
Pros of Vigil
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    Incident timeline
  • 44
    Error page screenshots
  • 37
    Slack integration
  • 30
    On-call duty scheduling
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    Very reliable
  • 20
    Phone call alerts
  • 20
    Detailed reports
  • 19
    Easy setup
  • 15
    Calendar integration
  • 13
    Multi-location checks
  • 9
    Intuitive UX
  • 8
    Heroku integration
  • 7
    Status pages
  • 5
    Easy to use
  • 1
    Free tier
  • 1
    Simple and reliable
  • 1
    Inexpensive

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What is Better Stack?

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.

What is Vigil?

Whether you have one site, or twenty, Vigil is a simple and reliable service for monitoring the uptime and performance of your websites. View all your sites on our beautiful client dashboards, get email and push notifications when there is a problem, and receive weekly email summary reports that let you know how your sites are doing over the long-term.

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