Spectate VS SolidPing

Spectate's answer

• Ploi (https://ploi.io)
• Lightbase (https://lightbase.nl)

Spectate's answer

• NextJS
• Laravel
• Redis
• Postgres

SolidPing's answer:

• Go
• SQLite and PostgreSQL
• React, TanStack Router, Tailwind CSS and Vite
• WebSocket for the agents, Ed25519 and age (X25519) for agent keys and sealed credentials
• Docker

Spectate's answer

What started as an internal tool to satisfy my monitoring and alerting needs has expanded to become a complete platform. With the use of AI, we have automated lots of tasks so your team can focus on what is important: getting that issue resolved.

SolidPing's answer:

I loved Better Stack, and then the free plan kept getting thinner. What pushed me over: incidents used to get one Slack thread each, so an outage lived in one conversation. That went away, so I built my own.

I have maintained an open-source Go FTP server library (ftpserverlib) for 10 years, so SolidPing is open source (AGPL-3.0) from day one.

Spectate's answer

Spectate is an excellent solution for SME businesses who can't afford to manage incident communication full-time. With its ease of use, it's also an excellent solution for freelancers who want to monitor their services without unnecessary hassle.

SolidPing's answer:

Developers, sysadmins and small ops teams who monitor websites, APIs and internal services, and who want the option to self-host.

Spectate's answer

Spectate isn't just another uptime monitoring service. It provides pro-active uptime & performance monitoring, status pages powered by AI updates so you can focus on the incidents, domain monitoring and internal incident management and postmortems.

SolidPing's answer:

Private agents you run inside your own network. They dial out over a WebSocket, so there is no inbound port to open. Check credentials are encrypted for the agent's own key, so the server storing them can't read them.

Everything is open source, including the agents, SSO and every check type. Sub-minute check intervals are not paywalled, hosted or self-hosted.

Spectate's answer

Spectate is focusing on making monitoring and incident management as easy and efficient as possible. With our opinionated incident management workflow, it is less flexible than competitors but makes you insanely efficient. We're not stopping just there, you get even more efficient by using automatic status page updates, supercharged by AI, so you can focus on fixing the actual issue instead of taking care of customer communication.

SolidPing's answer:

Nothing is held back for a paid edition, so you can start hosted and move to self-hosting later (or the reverse) with the same product.

One Go binary covers 40 check types, status pages, incidents and on-call escalation. If you already run Uptime Kuma, there is an importer.