Detailed Comparison
| Services Offered | Site24x7 | AlertFox |
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| Website monitoring | ||
| Website performance monitoring from a global perspective |  Over 100 global locations |
3 global locations |
| Web transaction monitoring using a Real Browser for applications from a global perspective. | |
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| Video stream monitoring |  |
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| Slow component capture in webpages (for CDN-based websites) | |
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| DNS configuration and resolution checks for a distributed DNS infrastructure | |
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| FTP server availability as well as file upload and download time monitoring | |
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| REST API endpoint check and response validation | |
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| REST API transaction monitoring (web application workflow) | |
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| Mail server performance monitoring (POP, IMAP, SMTP) | |
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| Website defacement and content integrity check | |
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| DNSSEC checks for authenticating DNS responses | |
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| Ping and Port availability monitoring | |
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| SSL certificate validity and expiration check as well as certificate tampering detection | |
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| Domain name expiration check | |
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| On-premises support (monitor applications inside your data center) | |
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| Synthetic Transaction Monitoring | ||
| Technologies monitored | ||
| Java | |
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| Ajax | |
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| Silverlight | |
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| ActiveX | |
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| Flash | |
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| HTTP/HTTPS | |
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| HTML5 | |
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| Transaction playback browsers supported | ||
| Firefox | |
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| Chrome | |
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| IE | |
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| Other features | ||
| Keyword checks to monitor string availability | |
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| Data retention period for captured metrics | Daily average upto 5 years | 60 days |
| Incident communication that allows you to transparently publish your service status to your customers | |
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| Add multiple users to manage the monitoring account | |
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| Root cause analysis report on outages | |
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| Threshold-based alerting to capture unusual spikes in collected metrics | |
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| AI-based anomaly detection that captures weekly spikes for performance attributes | |
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| Incident management with a dedicated Alarms dashboard | |
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| NOC dashboard for your IT teams to keep an eye on the live status of monitors | |
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| Custom dashboard that can be used to build your own KPI metrics-based dashboard | |
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| Infrastructure Monitoring | ||
| Monitoring uptime and performance of your server infrastructure (Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Mac OS) | |
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| VMware infrastructure monitoring | |
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| Nutanix Monitoring | |
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| SNMP based Network monitoring | |
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| VoIP Monitoring | |
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| Custom script monitoring based on plugin for monitoring custom objects | |
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| Manage application logs and troubleshoot critical issues from a single console in the cloud | |
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| Cloud Monitoring | ||
| Amazon Web Services monitoring | |
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| Azure monitoring | |
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| Application Performance monitoring | ||
| Troubleshoot performance issues in Java, .Net, PHP, Ruby on Rails and NodeJS based applications | |
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| Gain insight into the experience of the real user while accessing your web/mobile applications | |
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| Alerting | ||
| SMS | |
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| Voice call | |
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| Integration with third party services | ||
| PagerDuty | |
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| Slack | |
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| HipChat | |
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| Microsoft Teams | |
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| Zapier | |
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| Webhook integration to push outages to any platform using REST API | |
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| Reporting | ||
| Resource level Availability reports for custom time periods | |
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| Resource level performance report for custom time periods | |
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| Health trend report | |
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| Busy hours report | |
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| SLA management and report | |
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| Top N report | |
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| Licensing | ||
| Pricing | Starts with 25 websites for $10/month | Unlimited DNS, FTP, and HTTP availability testing and two Real Browser tests: $99/month |
| Subscription | Monthly/yearly subscription model with flexible add-on packages that allow as little as 20 websites, 5 servers and 1 application to be added for monitoring in the Professional pack. | Monthly subscription model with no option for add-ons |
| Payment methods | Credit card, Paypal, PO | Credit card, wire transfer, fax |
