Is Odown the right Pingdom alternative for you?
Pingdom, part of SolarWinds, is one of the longest-running website monitoring services. It covers uptime checks, multi-step transaction checks, page speed and real user monitoring. Teams usually look for an alternative when they only need uptime and API monitoring and want customer-facing status pages, incident updates and SSL monitoring in the same plan. That is what Odown is built for: monitoring from 17 regions every minute, with status pages included and incident management from the Pro plan.
Where Odown is the better choice
- Status pages your customers can subscribe to. Pro ($29 a month) includes unlimited status pages on your own domain, 1,000 subscribers, incident updates and scheduled maintenance notices alongside 40 monitors.
- SSL monitoring that stays separate from uptime. Every plan includes unlimited SSL monitors, checked daily, with an alert any number of days before expiry (30 by default), set per alert channel. Your uptime checks keep running normally while a renewal is due.
- Alert channels built in. Email, SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, webhooks, PagerDuty and Opsgenie are available on every plan. On Pro and Advanced you can also send SMS to subscribers through your own Twilio or Vonage account.
- Three simple plans. Basic, Pro and Advanced each set the number of monitors, SMS credits and status page features, so you know exactly what you get.
- API monitoring with full request control. Set the method, headers and body for each check, and run it every minute.
Where Pingdom is the better choice
Odown is not the right fit for everyone. Choose Pingdom if one of these matters most to you:
- You need transaction checks. Pingdom can script multi-step flows such as logging in or checking out. Odown checks single URLs and API requests.
- You need real user monitoring. Pingdom measures page loads from real visitors, with plans from 100,000 to a billion pageviews a month. Odown does not offer real user monitoring.
- You monitor thousands of endpoints. Pingdom's Synthetic Monitoring scales to 30,000 uptime checks, with unlimited users. Odown's largest plan, Advanced, covers 300 monitors.
How to switch from Pingdom to Odown
- Export or list your Pingdom uptime checks, their intervals and your alert contacts.
- Start a free 14-day Odown trial and add the same URLs as monitors. For APIs, set the method, headers and body.
- Add SSL monitors for your domains, then in Alert Settings choose how many days before expiry each alert channel should warn you.
- Connect your alert channels, such as Slack, SMS or PagerDuty, and send a test alert.
- Run both tools side by side for a week, compare the alerts, then cancel Pingdom and pick an Odown plan.
Pingdom alternative FAQ
What is the best alternative to Pingdom?
It depends on what you use Pingdom for. If you mainly need uptime, API and SSL monitoring with status pages and incident updates in one flat-priced plan, Odown is a strong fit. If you rely on transaction checks or real user monitoring, Pingdom covers those and Odown does not.
Is Odown cheaper than Pingdom?
Odown's Basic plan is $12 a month for 10 monitors, 50 SMS credits, 1-minute checks and a status page on your own domain. Pingdom's entry Synthetic Monitoring tier also covers 10 uptime checks and 50 SMS, and status page subscribers and incident updates are included on Odown Pro at $29 a month. Compare the tier you actually need on both pricing pages.
Does Pingdom alert before an SSL certificate expires?
Yes. Pingdom can alert a set number of days before expiry as part of an HTTPS uptime check. From that day the check is marked as down, so Pingdom recommends a separate check for expiry. Odown uses separate SSL monitors, so expiry alerts never affect your uptime checks.
Can I move my checks from Pingdom to Odown?
Yes. Add the same URLs as monitors in Odown, connect your alert channels, and run both tools side by side during the 14-day trial before you cancel Pingdom.
Does Odown offer real user monitoring like Pingdom?
No. Odown monitors your sites and APIs from 17 regions but does not measure real visitors' page loads. If you need real user monitoring, Pingdom sells it as a separate product.
Comparing more tools? See how Odown compares with UptimeRobot, StatusCake and Statuspage, or try the free SSL certificate checker.