Early access
Switching from Pingdom
Bring your monitors over as a CSV export or a list of URLs. You get checks with confirmation before anyone is paged, a status page, and one alert per outage that says what broke and what to check first. Flat prices, no per seat fees.
5 monitors free. No card. The first 100 workspaces get Solo free for a year.
What changed at Pingdom
- •Pingdom has no free plan; the entry plan is about $16.50 a month billed annually for 10 uptime checks.
- •It is sold as part of SolarWinds, with the product aimed at larger accounts and real user monitoring.
As published on Pingdom's site and comparison pages in October 2026. Check their pricing page for the current figures.
Pingdom
- Entry price
- about $16.50 a month, 10 checks
- Free plan
- none
- Aimed at
- larger accounts, real user monitoring
Infrachamp
- Entry price
- Free for 5 monitors; Solo $12 for 25
- Free plan
- yes, with a status page
- Aimed at
- small teams and solo builders
The alert is the difference
Most monitors tell you something is down. Ours reads the evidence the checks already have, which regions failed, the response code, whether the port and DNS and certificate answer, which of your other monitors are fine, and writes it back in plain words with the first thing to check. One message when it breaks, one when it recovers.
Start for freeapi.example.com is down
Down for 4 minutes from 3 of 3 regions. The server accepts the connection but the load balancer returns 502, which usually means the app behind it crashed or is restarting.
Check first: the app container, then the deploy that landed at 9:42. The marketing site and the database port are fine.
Status page set to Investigating at 9:47. We will send one more message when it recovers, and nothing in between.