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Healthchecks.io vs VictorOps: What are the differences?
What is Healthchecks.io? Cron Monitoring. Get Notified When Your Cron Jobs Fail. Healthchecks.io is a monitoring service for your cron jobs, background services and scheduled tasks. It works by listening for HTTP "pings" from your services. You can set up various alert methods: email, Slack, Telegram, PagerDuty, etc.
What is VictorOps? We make on-call suck less & help teams to solve problems faster. VictorOps is a real-time incident management platform that combines the power of people and data to embolden DevOps teams so they can handle incidents as they occur and prepare for the next one.
Healthchecks.io and VictorOps can be primarily classified as "Monitoring Aggregation" tools.
Some of the features offered by Healthchecks.io are:
- Open source, can be self-hosted
- Simple, clean dashboard
- Free for hobby projects
On the other hand, VictorOps provides the following key features:
- On-call schedule management - easily set up rotations, teams & escalation policies
- Collaborative problem-solving - get the right eyes on the problem quickly
- Post-mortem reporting
Healthchecks.io is an open source tool with 1.91K GitHub stars and 267 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Healthchecks.io's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Healthchecks.io
- Can be self-hosted3
- Great value2
- Free tier2
- Easy to understand2
Pros of VictorOps
- The transmogrifier is a game changer7
- Great Team, Great Product6
- Free tier5
- Much better than ANY of the alternatives. Todd is GREAT3
- Great tiered escalation management3
- Android app with Wear integration2
- On-call routing and the timeline is brilliant2
- Awesome Team always updating1
- Nice UI1