A Pingdom alternative for uptime, status and on-call
Pingdom, from SolarWinds, is a long-standing website monitoring service, with uptime and transaction checks, page speed and real user monitoring. Uptime Dog focuses on uptime and what happens when it fails.
Based on public information as of October 2026. Check Pingdom's own site for current plans and prices. Pingdom is a trademark of its owner; Uptime Dog isn't affiliated with it.
Uptime Dog and Pingdom at a glance
| Area | Uptime Dog | Pingdom |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Uptime, incidents, status pages and on-call | Website availability and performance |
| Browser checks | Included from Essentials | Transaction checks |
| Real user monitoring | No | Yes |
| Status pages | Included, with custom domains on paid plans | See their site |
| On-call | Rotations, overrides and escalation policies on paid plans | See their site |
| Pricing | Flat plans in GBP: £0, then £9, £29, £79 a month | See their site |
The main differences
Performance against availability
Pingdom measures how fast pages load and how real visitors experience them. Uptime Dog doesn't do page speed or real user monitoring; it records response times for each check and tells you when things fail.
Handling incidents
Uptime Dog includes the steps after detection: incidents with public and internal updates, status pages with subscribers, on-call rotations and escalation policies with one-click acknowledge links in every alert.
Jobs and servers
Heartbeat monitors watch cron jobs and workers, and a small shell agent reports server CPU, memory, disk and load. Both are included on every plan.
What Uptime Dog includes
Four plans, priced in pounds sterling and billed monthly or yearly through Paddle. Limits per plan, from Free to Business:
- Monitors: Free 20, Essentials 50, Pro 200 and Business 1,000, checked as often as every 20 seconds.
- Status pages: Free 1, Essentials 1, Pro 5 and Business 20, with custom domains from Essentials.
- Seats: Free 1, Essentials 3, Pro 10 and Business 25.
- SMS and call credits a month: Essentials 20, Pro 100 and Business 300.
- Logs a month: Free 100 MB, Essentials 5,000 MB, Pro 20,000 MB and Business 50,000 MB.
- Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Telegram, webhook, PagerDuty and Opsgenie alerts, the REST API and the AI assistant (with your own key) on every plan.
See the full pricing table or the feature overview.
When Pingdom is the better choice
No tool is right for everyone. Pingdom is likely to suit you better if:
- You need real user monitoring or page speed analysis.
- You need checks from many locations around the world as standard.
- Your organisation already uses other SolarWinds products.
Moving from Pingdom
Recreate uptime checks as HTTP or keyword monitors and transaction checks as browser checks (open, click, type, expect text). Set up channels and an escalation policy, then point your alerts and status page at Uptime Dog.
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Uptime Dog is free for up to 20 monitors. No card needed.
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