AlertBot

Pros: Easy to setup. We have relied on this application for many years now. It gives us a heads-up on problems before they become impactful to our customers.

Cons: The 'from' on the text alerts are always from a different source which causes many different 'senders' in the text inbox. It would be nicer to have a common sender.

Pros: Using real browsers gets you the closest to the actual real user journey. No script needed in the source code! Various test browsers and locations to choose from. Good and detailed reporting.

Cons: The setup has to be done by AlertBot support. Also depending on your server configuration, the AlertBot settings may get even trickier! More expensive than similar products. I would welcome sending SMS (to the UK) or WhatsApp alerts, as part of the service.

Pros: Knowing that our publicly consumed services are online and available is super important to us. I prefer to be the first to know if the services are down, instead of waiting on customers or end users to be the ones to inform me.

Cons: I recall it being a bit tricky to do the action script, but customer support generally takes care of it for me.

Pros: Easy to use and accurate reporting. Great way to keep an eye on your websites.

Cons: No issues that I can think of to report.

Pros: We've been using Alertbot for over eight years now. We were sick of finding out about problems with our website from end users first. While there are varying levels of complexity to AlertBot monitors, even the simple alerts let us know almost instantly when we have an issue. The prioritization of alerting groups and timing allow us to automatically escalate the notifications if someone is not immediately able to respond.

Cons: Sometimes we have an issue with logging in and the way credentials are managed, but I'm guessing this is out of an abundance of security. It has been a while since we've had that issue.

Pros: Alertbot gives us a daily snapshot into the stability of our eCommerce site. It allows us to go back and investigate issues that have sometimes not been detected by our other operational tools.

Cons: I have nothing to contribute here. Having been a customer over 2+ years, it has done everything we have expected.

Pros: It is easy to set up the monitors. alerts right away when there is an issue

Cons: none, other than maybe the price could bet a little better

Pros: This product was very easy to setup and use. Tech support has been very responsive and knowledgeable, which is very important to me.

Cons: The ability to troubleshoot a problem was a bit difficult to do but that may have just been my lack of knowledge of the product.

Pros: Has worked reliably for years, never had any problems with setup, and pricing is very well scalable. The reports feature is a handy bonus as well

Cons: The UI can sometimes be slow, but this is rare

Pros: -Easy to set up monitors. -multiple alerting methods available (texting, email, etc). -ample notice from AlertBot.com of upcoming maintenance windows. -No missed alerts. -Support are friendly, quick to reply and help.

Cons: -honestly, I can't think of anything I don't like about it.

Pros: We have been using AlertBot for many years (I dare to believe that we were some of the first users) and from that moment, it became our primary source of website availability reporting, with escalating notifications support and POST processing, it provides us a reliable way to stay on top of our servers online presence.

Cons: The software has evolved overtime to fill some of the gaps they had, from the strange billing interfaces to a streamlined integrated version; the only nice-to-have would be the ability to select the geographic location(s) to test from.

Pros: The team's willingness to work with our MFA requirements and find a customer solution to make the monitor work.

Cons: Sometimes making small changes (e.g., updating a password in a log in flow) is not as obvious as you would hope but in any situation to date I have found the support quick and ready to assist me.

Pros: The simplicity and the price. We are very happy with it and I don't think any manager will oppose to the purchase approval, it's so inexpensive.

Cons: I don't have issues with it. They even have a free tier for those who want to monitor a home server like a Plex server. What's not to like...

Pros: It is easy to set up the monitors which has you monitoring your website for outages in no time.

Cons: I really don't have anything I don't like about it.

Pros: Monitors both Web pages and servers from various locations around the globe.

Cons: Conditional alerting would be a nice enhancement; where one monitor checks other status before sending the alerts.

Pros: I like the quick notification emails to let me know if my website goes down. I also get a report of my site's speed which is great for detecting any issues.

Cons: None really. Does a great job. It does everything that I need it to.

Pros: I love that it allows us to scale confidently & spot issues as quickly as they manifest on our web sites. It's awesome to be notified and address issues in almost real time.

Cons: NA. The software is easy & the admin dashboard is super easy & the monitoring a breeze with the NOC view.

Pros: Alertbot is in a class by itself when you consider the transactional monitoring capabilities. We also use a few other cloud monitoring sites but none afford us the flexibility in scripting multi-step transactions that Alertbot does. The other thing that sets Alertbot apart is true world class support. In my role, my team has to work with many other technical support teams and I can tell you that the team we work with at Alertbot is not only very knowledgeable, but are also very easy to work with and are super fast to respond to our needs.

Cons: We do wish that the browser support was more up to date.

Pros: The product is very easy to use , which made onboarding and teaching new users how to use the tool a rapid process. My favorite aspect is the weekly reports we get that break down how all of the monitors are performing. This is especially helpful to the site owners on my team when they go to review standards for how all of the sites are functioning and to see where there are opportunities to improve their sites.

Cons: My one suggestion is to develop a dashboard view that summarizes the performance of the monitors by monitor group by a monthly/yearly basis. The dashboard would be especially helpful for our team members to quickly check and see a visual of how their monitors are performing.

Pros: Love the use of the waterfall reports that quickly shows where there are failures in the system. Also love the geolocation feature.

Cons: I honestly cannot think of anything that Alertbot does not do well.

Pros: The response time, any issues it gave detailed information and easy to troubleshoot.

Cons: Setting up test scripts, seems to be longer process.

Pros: Easy to use, great Customer Service/Support Team.

Cons: The website/reporting is a bit more complicated than it supposed to be. Not a big deal, I got used to it.