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StatusCake vs Vigil: What are the differences?

What is StatusCake? Feature Rich Uptime Monitoring, Domain Monitoring, SSL Monitoring and a whole lot more. 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!.

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.

StatusCake and Vigil can be categorized as "Website Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by StatusCake are:

  • Truly Global Monitoring
  • SureAlert – No False Positives
  • Domain Monitoring

On the other hand, Vigil provides the following key features:

  • Simple
  • Reliable
  • Monitor Web Sites
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Pros of StatusCake
Pros of Vigil
  • 13
    Easy to use and reliable
  • 11
    Free tier
  • 5
    Public Reporting
  • 4
    Domain monitoring
  • 3
    Group Notification
  • 2
    Cheaper
  • 2
    No false positives
  • 2
    SSL Certificate Monitoring
  • 1
    WhoIs Domain Monitoring
  • 1
    Malware and Virus Scanning
  • 1
    Real Browser Testing
  • 1
    Multiple User Accounts
  • 1
    Mobile App
  • 1
    Great Customer Support
  • 1
    Full Featured API
  • 1
    Simple and reliable
  • 1
    Inexpensive

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What is 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!

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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    What are some alternatives to StatusCake and Vigil?
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    Uptrends
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    Site24x7
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