RapidSpike VS Downtime Monkey

The RapidSpike tool helps secure, understand & improve online business by capturing, aggregating, & analysing multiple data sources to provide key insights about your digital platforms & your real user experiences. At RapidSpike we want people to have a clear understanding of their digital platforms and real user experiences so they can make more informed decisions on how to improve user happiness, revenue conversion, and platform stability.

RapidSpike also improves stakeholder visibility by monitoring system performance, availability & reliability, assessing security vulnerabilities and using synthetic monitoring alongside real user experience data to alert you to real-time issues.

RapidSpike brings you visibility, understanding, and clarity enabling better decision making which will keep you online & secure, enhance your user experiences & improve revenue conversion which helps you gain a competitive advantage.

Downtime Monkey provides a complete website monitoring service with both Free and Pro plans. Features include:

• Global Monitoring: a network of global servers checks websites from 6 locations worldwide eliminating false positive downtimes

• Response Time Monitoring: monitor the speed of your website and view graphs of response times

• Keyword Monitoring: get notified when the content of your website changes unexpectedly

• Alerts to email, SMS and Slack

• Custom Alert Times: set the time a website should remain down before an alert is sent

• Manage Multiple Sites: bulk upload, edit and delete sites. View the status of all your sites at a glance

• Uptime Stats and Downtime Logs: uptime stats to 3 decimal places (e.g. 99.999%), logs of every individual downtime including the timestamp, duration, response code from the server and a short explanation of the reason for the downtime

• 60 monitors, every 3 minutes completely free

• Pro accounts with all the features from $0.48 per month (or from €0.48, £0.36 or A$0.68 and over 100 other currencies)