Looking for a monitoring tool for your website or application?
HTTPCS can be a great alternative to the well-known Uptime Robot solution thanks to its advanced technology and high-quality service.
The HTTPCS solution delivers a high performance with a monitoring frequency every minutes (customizable)
Monitoring frequency: 60 seconds
Monitoring by HTTPCS performs its tests from 50 data centers in over 7 worldwide locations. The solution offers a complete and efficient monitoring of your website or web application.
Most of the checkpoints are located in Dallas, USA
The tests are performed from probes all around the world, and not only near the geographical localization of the company.
Worldwide testing
Monitoring warns its users at any time with a text, Email or by API integration.
Alerts by Email, SMS, vocal, API integration (with extra cost)
There is no restriction regarding the number of alerts sent by SMS, email or by API integration. Unlimited alerts are included in the plan
Limited number of alerts
Unlimited number of recipients. For the same price, your whole working team can be part of your website monitoring
Unlimited recipients
Monitoring alert limits can be set up in order to dissociate real performance loss from real functioning
Advanced settings available (limitations)
Thanks to our exclusive technology of "Virtual Browser", we offer you a very simple tool to record your scenarios without any technical skill being required. (no external program installation, no browser extension, no programming).
No monitoring scenarios
The fingerprint feature recognizes "proof", proving a website normal functioning. If there is no proof, the anomaly will immediatly be sent to our working teams
Fingerprint testing unavailable
HTTPCS monitors all your web applications and web services
Web applications and web services management
You can check the respect of your service level agreement with your service provider by benefiting from an impartial and infallible third person's data
Service Level Agreement not mentionned
HTTPCS offers a 0 false positive guarantee to its users, so it can send alerts about real and proven anomalies
False positive management not mentionned
HTTPCS Monitoring perfectly checks your server availability
Perfect server management
HTTPCS Monitoring is part of the complete HTTPCS cybersecurity suite. The users can easily find the modules they subscribed to within a single console
No additional module related to cybersecurity
Thanks to its Machine Learning technology, the HTTPCS Monitoring robot learns from previous anomalies to anticipate them more efficiently in the future
No Machine Learning to foresee or improve the service
A 99.999% monitoring service continuity, which guarantees a false positive management
No service continuity guaranteed
Since the HTTPCS console is 100% SaaS, no installation is required. You just need to access a web interface by logging in with your login ID
SaaS interface with no installation
Unlimited number of users. The accounts can easily and quickly be set up with just a few clicks
Unlimited number of users
The reports can be exported at any time to create detailed statistics
Export feature available
An API is made available, just so the users can incorporate the HTTPCS modules within their favorite applications
An API is made available to make the connection easier with the different tools
The HTTPCS interface is available in French and English
Interface only in English
The HTTPCS interface is easy to access, intuitive and ergonomic. No training is required to get familiar with the console
Online interface, easy to access and intuitive, no download required
The Monitoring by HTTPCS prices are fixed and include all the features without any additional cost
The price of the solution varies depending on the features chosen, the number of users and alerts set up.
The Monitoring by HTTPCS montly prices are ranging between 17 € and 21 € if you choose a montly or annual plan
From 4.50 € to 5.50 € / month (+ SMS alert extra cost)
No installation fee required to benefit from the monitoring solution
No installation fee
HTTPCS provides a quality technical support in 7 languages, including French and English
Only available in English
Technical support can be reached over the phone during office hours and 24/7 by email
Available during office hours and 24/7 by email
Technical support can be reached over the phone, by email, SMS and online chat. A detailed FAQ is made available to answer your questions at any time
Email, helpline, chat and FAQ
European Cybersecurity leader, HTTPCS is a French company, also available in the United States. HTTPCS protects your data in accordance with the GDPR
Company located in the United States. The privacy policy is GDPR-compliant
Technology
Comparing the features of these two monitoring tools is useful in order to highlight their differences and similarities.
Both solutions differ through the checkpoint locations. Monitoring by HTTPCS performs its checks from 50 data centers equally allocated around the world. Uptime Robot also has a large number of checkpoints but most of them are located in the USA, which calls into question their absolute reliability.
Just like HTTPCS, Uptime Robot solution is efficient on both web applications and servers to detect security incidents.
While the HTTPCS monitoring tool automatically performs a test every minutes (customizable), the Uptime Robot frequency efficiency depends on chosen plan. Therefore, it can differ from 1 to 5 minutes if the service is part of the plan or not.
HTTPCS and Uptime Robot can both perform tests based on complex scenarios, with evidence-based searching that goes deeper than the standard ping. By performing multiple tests, both solutions guarantee flawless false positives management (false alerts). With its advanced technology, HTTPCS even performs complex fingerprint tests, which anticipates downtimes.
Both monitoring tools offer unlimited users, which is very useful for larger working teams.
Monitoring by HTTPCS stands out from Uptime Robot with its data storage policy:
Lifetime data storage is a real asset because it shows the company’s evolution by using data for statistical purposes.
HTTPCS, thanks to its exclusive “Virtual Browser” technology, provides a very simple tool to record monitoring scenarios (transaction monitoring tool) with no technical skill required. The scenarios are automatically replayed every 15 minutes by a real browser, and are manually re-playable at any time.
Therefore, HTTPCS has a real technological advantage over Uptime Robot that does not offer this monitoring scenario feature which is yet essential to ensure the functioning of your websites (retail websites, CMS, business web applications, SaaS applications).
Technology
Technology
Alerts
When using a monitoring solution, being immediately notified is essential in case of a disturbance. The alert feature can be received by email, text messages, phone, or with API integration.
If an error is detected, the Uptime Robot user will receive an alert by email, text or phone call. Unlike HTTPCS, only 20 monthly alerts are included in the plan. Beyond this limit, each alert will be charged 0.15 € per unit. The alerts can be sent to unlimited recipients, a common feature of both solutions.
Monitoring by HTTPCS provides alerts by text, email and API integration to ensure the users' comfort.
Alerts
Alerts
Specificities
Uptime Robot specificity, a key player on the market, is to provide a free basic formula. Although its features are limited, especially in the number of servers to be monitored, it enables small companies to benefit from a monitoring tool.
As for Monitoring by HTTPCS, its clever Machine Learning makes it stand out from its competitor. Incorporated into the HTTPCS monitoring solution, Machine Learning is a robot able to forecast high-risk situations. By predicting security incidents that may happen, the clever robot eliminates anomalies before the user even notices them. The HTTPCS Machine Learning is even more accurate than a standard ping solution and provides a continuous monitoring.
Specificities
Specificities
Technical Assistance
In the event of emergency, the HTTPCS support staff makes every effort to help your company as quickly as possible. Available in 7 languages, Monitoring by HTTPCS provides a 5/7 support over the phone, by email and online chat. Frequently asked questions are also available online at any time.
Uptime Robot also offers telephone and e-mail assistance, which is open during office hours, but is based in Malta and is only available in English.
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance
Overview of the interface of our Monitoring tool
Interface
Thanks to our exclusive technology of "Virtual Browser", we offer you a very simple tool to record your scenarios without any technical skill being required. (no external program installation, no browser extension, no programming).
You will be able to monitor the important steps of your users (login, form, shopping cart, sso, ...) by adding a text presence proof and be alerted in real time when one of them is inaccessible or unavailable.
The scenarios are replayed automatically every 15 minutes by a real browser, and can be replayed manually at any time.
Pages performance are recorded and viewable: network measurements (DNS, server connection, TLS ...), time and number of redirects, DOM interactivity time, full loading time of pages and their resources with response sizes and compression ratio.
Scenario monitoring (transaction monitoring tool) is an essential tool to guarantee the functioning of your sites (e-commerce sites, CMS, business web applications, SaaS applications) to your customers and users.
Monitor right away the availability of your website or web application in real time!
Pricing
Both solutions have a different pricing strategy.
Uptime Robot offers a free version with limited features. The "pro" plan starts from $ 4.50 / month (4 €) with an annual subscription, and $ 5.50 / month (5 €) with a monthly subscription without commitment.
Then the additional cost of text notifications, which is not included in the "pro" formula, must be added: $ 30 / month for 200 notifications or about 27 € / month.
Monitoring by HTTPCS is available at $ 17 / month with annual subscription or $ 14.17 / month without commitment, with unlimited alerts included.
Pricing
Pricing
No study would be complete without a final benchmark of its functionalities! The features of each solution have been graded out of 5 with an overall maximum score of 25. Visualize at a glance the potential of HTTPCS and Uptime Robot.
Technology
Technology
Alerts
Alerts
Specificities
Specificities
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance
Pricing
Pricing
Overall comparative rating
Although Uptime Robot’s basic plan is free, the notification system is not included whereas HTTPCS provides all these features for only $ 14.17 / month with an annual subscription. Monitoring by HTTPCS has a final perfect score of 25 points out 25. Uptime Robot lost with a score of 16 points out of 25.
Don’t let downtimes ruin your company’s activities, choose our monitoring tool now
Strengths and weaknesses study of each solution shows that Monitoring by HTTPCS is an excellent alternative when it comes to choose a web monitoring tool. The solution stands out with its international support and Machine Learning able to anticipate the early signs of an incident before it even happens.
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