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Comparing website monitoring services.
Website monitoring services can look alike until you line up what is actually included. Here is what every BinaryCanary plan includes, and the questions worth asking any provider.
Included on every plan
What BinaryCanary uptime monitoring includes.
Every feature below is on all four plans, from $2 to $20 a month.
| Feature | Every BinaryCanary plan |
|---|---|
| Monitor frequency | 1 minute on every plan |
| Website checks | Text found / not found, regular expressions, page size and checksum, password-protected pages, cookies, redirects |
| Email server checks | SMTP, POP3, IMAP, plus SMTP > POP3 and SMTP > IMAP round trip |
| Service checks | FTP, telnet, DNS, ping, custom TCP port, DNS entry, SSL certificate expiry, domain expiry |
| Notifications | Email, SMS, SMS by email, and phone (Hyper plan) |
| Alert features | Unlimited escalation profiles, do-not-disturb periods, alert acknowledgement, local time zones |
| False alarm prevention | Multi-network simultaneous monitoring and multi-network error confirmation |
| Reporting | Graphical executive dashboard, 1 year detailed history per monitor, performance comparison, notification and failure history |
| Users | Multiple users per account |
| Free trial | Yes, 14 days |
How we compared
What our previous competitor review found.
Our previous site published a side-by-side review of BinaryCanary against three other monitoring services: Hyperspin, Alertra, and SiteUptime. As published there, BinaryCanary was the only one of the four to include round-trip email monitoring, SSL certificate expiry monitoring, domain expiry monitoring, cookie support for website checks, and a graphical executive dashboard. It was also the least expensive of the four for three monitors checked every minute.
Those competitor figures are as published on our previous site and were not dated, so competitors' current features and prices may differ. Check each provider's own site before deciding.
A buyer's checklist
Six questions to ask any uptime monitoring provider.
- How often are checks run on the plan I'd actually buy — and does faster checking cost extra?
- Is a failure confirmed from a second location before I'm alerted, or will network blips wake me up?
- Can it check more than a homepage: page content, email round trips, databases, and custom ports?
- Are escalation, acknowledgement, and do-not-disturb periods included, or add-ons?
- How many users and client sub-accounts can I add?
- Is there a free trial, and what happens if it isn't right for us?
BinaryCanary's answers: 1-minute checks on every plan, second-location confirmation, all of the above included, unlimited users and sub-accounts, a 14-day free trial, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. See plans and pricing.
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