Alternatives to Oh Dear
A hosted website health monitor covering uptime, SSL, DNS, cron jobs, broken links and performance. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Oh Dear
A hosted website health monitor covering uptime, SSL, DNS, cron jobs, broken links and performance.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Oh Dear.
UptimeRobot
A hosted uptime monitoring service with 50 free monitors, alerts and public status pages.
UptimeRobot offers 50 free monitors with status pages, an API, CLI and mobile app, but lacks Oh Dear's site-wide broken link crawling.
Better Stack Uptime
A hosted uptime monitor that checks websites, APIs, SSL certificates and domains and sends alerts.
Better Stack Uptime covers HTTP, SSL, DNS, domain and cron checks plus Playwright transaction checks, with a free plan at 3-minute intervals.
StatusCake
A hosted monitoring service for website uptime, page speed, SSL certificates, domains and servers.
StatusCake monitors uptime, page speed, SSL, domains and servers with status pages, and has a free tier, unlike Oh Dear.
updown.io
A hosted website monitor that checks HTTP, TCP and ICMP endpoints, certificates and cron jobs.
updown.io is priced by usage, checks from 15-second intervals and confirms downtime from two locations, but does not crawl for broken links.
Pingdom
A hosted website monitoring service with uptime, page speed, transaction checks and real user monitoring.
Pingdom adds transaction checks and real user monitoring to uptime and speed monitoring, as a paid SolarWinds product aimed at businesses.
WebGazer
A hosted service for website, API, port and cron job monitoring with public status pages.
WebGazer monitors websites, APIs, ports and cron jobs with status pages and a free allowance of 50 monitors at 5-minute intervals.
Cronitor
A hosted monitoring service for cron jobs, background workers, websites and APIs, with failure alerts.
Cronitor centres on cron job and worker monitoring with uptime and SSL checks from 12+ locations, and jobs need an SDK or wrapper to report.
Statping-ng
A self-hosted status page and uptime monitor, maintained as a community fork of Statping.
Statping-ng is a free GPL-3.0 self-hosted status page and uptime monitor, so you run the server yourself instead of using a hosted EU service.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Oh Dear as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Better Stack Status Page
A hosted status page service with subscriber updates, custom domains and built-in uptime monitoring.
Oh Dear includes status pages with uptime, SSL, DNS and broken link monitoring, is EU-hosted, and has no permanent free plan.
Cert Spotter
A hosted Certificate Transparency monitor that alerts on unauthorized, expiring and invalid SSL certificates for your domains.
Oh Dear monitors SSL certificates as part of wider uptime, DNS, cron and broken link checks, and is EU-hosted with no permanent free plan.
Checkly
A code-first monitoring platform that runs Playwright browser checks and API tests from global locations.
Oh Dear covers uptime, SSL, DNS, cron and broken link crawling from an EU-hosted service, but has no permanent free plan and no Playwright browser checks.
Dead Man's Snitch
A hosted monitoring service that alerts you when a cron job or scheduled task fails to run.
Oh Dear bundles cron checks with uptime, SSL, DNS and broken link crawling for many websites, but it has no permanent free plan.
Sitechecker Website Monitoring
A hosted SEO monitoring tool that tracks website changes and technical issues that affect search ranking.
Oh Dear monitors uptime, SSL, DNS, cron jobs and broken links across whole sites with EU hosting, but it has no free plan and less focus on SEO changes.
TrackSSL
A hosted service that monitors SSL/TLS certificates and sends alerts before they expire or change.
Oh Dear monitors SSL along with uptime, DNS, cron jobs and broken links, is EU-hosted with a signable DPA, but has no permanent free plan.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Dead Link Checker
Online broken link checker that crawls a website or single page and reports dead links.
Hyperping
A hosted service for public and private status pages with built-in uptime monitoring.
Better Stack
A hosted observability service combining uptime monitoring, logs, on-call alerts, incident management and status pages.
