Comparisons
Compare Monitoring Approaches
Your uptime tool says the server answered. Your customers see a broken page. Most of the failures that cost you happen while the server responds normally — a missing script, broken styling, a checkout that quietly fails. Compare what different monitoring approaches catch, and what they miss entirely.
- Side-by-side: what uptime tools see vs. what website monitoring catches
- Real failure scenarios where "server up" and "page works" are very different things
- Find the right monitoring stack for your sites and team
01Why comparisons matter
The failures that hurt most are the ones your tools ignore
Website monitoring vs uptime
Uptime tools check if the server responds. Website monitoring fetches the page, parses the HTML, and validates every linked asset. One tells you the server is on. The other tells you the page actually works.
What pings cannot see
A 200 status code tells you nothing about whether JavaScript loaded, stylesheets rendered, or images displayed. The deploy that broke your checkout? Your uptime tool saw nothing. Your users saw everything.
What $19/month actually buys you
A $5/month uptime ping tells you the server is on. A $19/month Sitewatch Pro plan checks every part of the page across 100 sites, catches files served the wrong way, detects redirect loops, and flags unexpected content changes.
Tools that work together
Website monitoring does not replace APM, error tracking, or log aggregation. It covers the gap between "server is healthy" and "page works for users" -- the gap where most silent failures live.
20 detection rules, one tool
Missing files, files served the wrong way, redirect loops, pages that quietly moved, outages, slow responses, API failures, broken links, oversized pages, third-party outages, sudden slowdowns, and more. Sitewatch covers 20 specific checks that uptime tools simply can't match.
Right-sized for your team
Free plan for 1 site if you are just starting out. Starter for 25 sites. Pro for up to 100 client sites at $19/month ($190/yr annual). No per-seat pricing, no surprise overages.
20
Detection rules
5–30 min
Check intervals
$19/mo
Pro plan, 100 sites
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02FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Not necessarily. Sitewatch catches a different class of failures — the ones where your server responds normally but the page is broken for visitors. Many teams run both: uptime monitoring for server availability, and Sitewatch to confirm the page itself actually works.
Error tracking tools like Sentry catch JavaScript errors after they happen in a visitor's browser. Sitewatch detects problems before visitors encounter them — a missing script, broken styling, a redirect loop — by checking from outside your infrastructure on a schedule, plus on demand.
APM tools monitor server-side performance, database queries, and request traces. They do not check if your frontend assets actually load or if a CDN is serving files with the wrong content type. Sitewatch fills this gap by validating the user-facing result -- the page and every asset it depends on.
Sitewatch replaces basic uptime checkers for teams that need to know more than "is the server on." It does not replace APM, logging, or error tracking. It covers the frontend and asset layer -- the part of your stack where silent failures live and where uptime tools have a structural blind spot.
Start with what actually breaks. If your team regularly discovers broken deploys, missing assets, or client-facing failures after customers report them, website monitoring should be your next addition. If server-side errors and latency are your main problems, APM comes first. Most teams eventually need both layers.
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