European Alternatives to Pingdom
Looking for a European alternative to Pingdom? Pingdom is sold by SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC according to the copyright line on its own site, and its pricing page builds the plan from quantity bundles of uptime checks, advanced checks and SMS alerts, with real user monitoring billed by pageviews in a separate configurator. Teams that want a contract under European law, a simpler price or a free tier look at alternatives.
The European tools below cover the same ground, from plain uptime checks and status pages to browser and API tests, with vendors in Belgium, France, Estonia, Germany and the UK.
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11 European Alternatives to Pingdom
Oh Dear
Belgian uptime, SSL and broken-link monitor built by developers
Hyperping
French uptime checks, status pages and on-call in one account
updown.io
Pay-per-check uptime monitoring with no subscription, run by one person
Phare
Estonian uptime monitoring and status pages on usage-based pricing
Checkly
Berlin synthetic monitoring with Playwright checks and monitoring as code
StatusCake
UK uptime and website monitor since 2012 covering sites, servers and SSL
Monitive
Romanian uptime monitor with email, SMS and phone-call escalation
UptimeRobot
Long-running uptime monitor with a free plan and euro yearly prices
Uptrends
Dutch-founded web and API monitor now part of ITRS Group in London
Zabbix
Open-source monitoring platform from Riga for servers, network and services
Paessler PRTG
Nuremberg sensor-based monitor, self-hosted or as PRTG Hosted Monitor
Key takeaways
- Pingdom is sold by SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC according to the copyright line on its own site, and the terms of use page did not return readable text when we fetched it.
- Pingdom prices synthetic monitoring in bundles that start at 10 uptime checks, 1 advanced check and 50 SMS alerts, and prices real user monitoring separately by pageviews.
- Pingdom states that uptime monitoring runs from over 100 locations worldwide, while Uptrends lists more than 230 checkpoints on its Pro plan and Checkly mentions 20+ data center locations.
- Oh Dear in Belgium and Phare in Estonia are the European uptime tools on this page that pair checks with incident handling or status pages and have a free plan.
- Zabbix in Latvia is free and open source, so it is the one option here with no per-check or per-host licence cost, at the price of running it yourself.
Why people leave Pingdom
Pingdom is the website monitor that many agencies and web teams installed years ago and never questioned. The footer of its own site names SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC as the owner, and the home page describes the product as two halves: synthetic monitoring, meaning scheduled uptime, page speed and transaction checks, and real user monitoring, meaning measurements from actual visitors. A first check takes minutes to set up, and the vendor offers a 30-day trial that covers both halves.
The reasons to look elsewhere are rarely about whether Pingdom works. They are about how the bill is assembled and who the contract is with.
The pricing page sells synthetic monitoring in numbered bundles of uptime checks, advanced checks and SMS alerts, and sells real user monitoring separately by monthly pageviews, with a calculator that adds the two into a yearly price. A site owner who only wants to know whether the shop is up has to read a configurator to find out what that costs.
A procurement or data-protection review adds a second question. The owner is a US limited liability company, the sales line on the pricing page is a US number, and the terms of use page did not load its text when we fetched it, so we cannot tell you which law governs the contract or where results are stored.
Buyers who need that answered in writing, or who simply prefer a European counterparty, are the ones who end up comparing the tools below.
- The price is a configurator, not a list Pingdom builds the synthetic plan from quantity steps that run from 10 uptime checks, 1 advanced check and 50 SMS alerts up to 30,000 uptime checks, 2,500 advanced checks and 1,500 SMS alerts. Real user monitoring is a second slider in pageviews. The amounts load client-side, so the yearly figure only appears after you choose. Tools such as UptimeRobot publish euro prices per plan, and updown.io counts credits.
- Two product lines, two meters Pingdom meters uptime checks and advanced checks (the transaction type) in one slider and SMS alerts as a bundled count, then meters real user monitoring by pageviews in another. A team that only needs uptime pays attention to three numbers it may not care about. Most European alternatives here collapse this into a monitor count, a check interval or a flat tier.
- A US owner behind the contract The copyright line reads SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC, and the contact line is a US telephone number. The terms of use page returned no readable terms on our fetch, so jurisdiction and data location stay unconfirmed. If a European client asks you to name the contracting entity and the storage region of your monitoring data, Oh Dear, Hyperping or Phare answer with a company registered in Belgium, France or Estonia.
- Infrastructure and APM belong to other products Pingdom's own navigation points to infrastructure monitoring and application performance monitoring powered by SolarWinds AppOptics, log management powered by Loggly, and a SolarWinds Observability SaaS offer. Those are separate products with their own plans. If you outgrow website checks inside Pingdom, the upgrade path leads into other SolarWinds contracts rather than a bigger Pingdom plan.
What you have to replace, not just match
What you replace first is the check list. Export or re-create each uptime check, its interval, the alert contacts and any maintenance windows, because those live in the Pingdom account and nowhere else. Transaction checks, which Pingdom uses for sign-ups, logins, searches and cart checkouts, are the hardest to move: the European tools handle them with Playwright scripts at Checkly and Hyperping or with scripted transaction checks at Uptrends, so each flow has to be rewritten rather than imported.
Then there are the outputs people look at. Pingdom lists public status pages and reports among its synthetic features, and its trial includes real user monitoring with a live map, page load figures and 13-month data retention.
If your team reads those RUM charts, a pure uptime tool will not substitute: Uptrends sells an RUM add-on, while most others on this page stop at synthetic checks and expect you to use a web analytics tool for visitor data. Decide before the switch whether the RUM half was in use at all.
Finally, the surrounding tooling. Pingdom publishes an API, webhooks and extensions, and many teams have a Slack channel, a PagerDuty route or a status widget wired to them. Every one of those integrations needs its European counterpart configured and tested before the old account is closed, preferably with both monitors running in parallel for a week so that alert behaviour can be compared.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | Oh Dear | Berlaar, Belgium | Solo $17/month (2 sites/servers) up to Scale $439/month (200); Enterprise on request; two months free when billed annually | EU (Belgium) |
| #2 | Hyperping | Paris, France | Free (20 monitors, 5-minute checks); Essentials $24/month, Pro $74/month, Business $249/month with yearly billing; Enterprise on request | EU (France) |
| #3 | updown.io | St-Jean-de-Gonville, France | Pay-as-you-go credit packs from €5; for example 10 websites every 2 minutes from €1.83/month; 100,000 free credits to try | EU (France) |
| #4 | Phare | Tallinn, Estonia | Hobby free; Scale from €5/month plus usage (monitoring events, SMS and voice alerts, AI summaries billed per unit) | EU (Estonia) |
| #5 | Checkly | Berlin, Germany | Free tier / from €30 per month | EU (Germany) |
| #6 | StatusCake | Grays, England, United Kingdom | Free plan with 10 monitors; Superior from €16.66/month billed annually (€19.99 monthly); Business from €58.33/month billed annually (€69.99 monthly); Enterprise on request | United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #7 | Monitive | Romania | Free (1 page, 10-minute checks); Pro from $7/month for 5 monitors, $60/year on the pricing page; 15-day trial | EU (Romania) |
| #8 | UptimeRobot | Slovakia | Free €0; Solo from €108/year; Team €360/year; Scale from €660/year | EU (Slovakia) |
| #9 | Uptrends | London (offices in Alphen aan den Rijn, Erkrath and Saint-Cyprien), United Kingdom | A 30-day trial unlocks Enterprise; the pricing page lists Core at $42 and Pro at $60 per month, 10% cheaper when paid yearly; Enterprise is custom | United Kingdom (outside the EEA, covered by an adequacy decision) |
| #10 | Zabbix | Riga, Latvia | Free and open source; paid support and services | EU (Latvia) |
| #11 | Paessler PRTG | Nuremberg, Germany | PRTG 500 from $200/month, PRTG 1000 from $358/month, PRTG 2500 from $742/month, PRTG 5000 from $1,300/month, PRTG 10000 from $1,642/month, billed annually; also available as PRTG Hosted Monitor or on-prem Enterprise Monitor for larger environments | EU (Germany) |
How each alternative compares to Pingdom
Best for: Agencies and small teams that run client websites and want one check to cover several failure types
Against Pingdom's bundle of uptime and advanced checks, Oh Dear puts uptime, SSL certificate expiry, broken-link crawling, mixed content and DNS watching into one monitor, so a certificate that lapses is caught by the same tool that notices an outage. The company, Immutable VOF in Berlaar, was started in 2018 by the developers behind Spatie, and plans are priced by the number of sites or servers.
Primary data sits in Belgium with Combell, an ISO 27001-certified host, while performance metrics go through ClickHouse Cloud as a separate sub-processor. Pingdom's 100+ locations and its real user monitoring are not matched here, because Oh Dear stays on website and endpoint health. For an agency replacing a Pingdom account per client, the per-site price and AI-verified plain-English monitors are the practical difference.
What Oh Dear does better than Pingdom
- Catching SSL expiry and broken links in the same monitor
- A named Belgian host for primary data
- Pricing by site instead of check bundles
- API-first monitoring as code
Where Oh Dear is a step down from Pingdom
- Real user monitoring
- Location count against 100+
- Infrastructure or APM depth
Standout against Pingdom. One monitor covers uptime, certificates, links and DNS, which Pingdom splits across check types.
Best for: SaaS and product teams that want alerting, escalation and customer-facing status communication together
Hyperping SAS in Paris covers three jobs in one account: finding the outage, alerting the right person and telling customers. Its free plan has 20 monitors with 5-minute checks and one basic status page, and the paid plans add Playwright browser checks for sign-in and checkout, which is the place to look when you used Pingdom transaction checks.
Prices are listed in US dollars (Essentials $24, Pro $74 and Business $249 per month with yearly billing), and logs, extra seats and subscriber caps change the bill as you grow. The terms name a company incorporated under French law, while the pages we read do not state where data is stored. Pingdom keeps the advantage of real user monitoring and a larger published check network.
What Hyperping does better than Pingdom
- On-call and escalation in the same account
- Subscriber-based status pages with a custom domain
- A usable free tier with 20 monitors
- A French entity named in the terms
Where Hyperping is a step down from Pingdom
- Real user monitoring
- A euro price list
- Stated data location
Standout against Pingdom. It joins monitoring, on-call and a branded status page in one account, where Pingdom sells checks and RUM.
Best for: Developers and small agencies that want cheap, frequent checks and no monthly commitment
updown.io replaces Pingdom's bundle slider with a meter you can read: one credit is one check, packs start at €5, and the vendor's own example is 10 websites checked every 2 minutes from €1.83 a month. Intervals go down to 15 seconds, checks cover HTTP(S), TCP(S) and ICMP, and a pulse mode watches cron jobs. A downtime is confirmed from at least two locations before an alert goes out.
The service is built and run by one person, and the terms name Adrien Rey-Jarthon (EI), a sole proprietorship in France. Sub-processors include OVH in France and Hetzner in Germany, plus DigitalOcean in the US under transfer safeguards. Status pages are availability reports without subscriber management, and the pages we read show no browser-based transaction checks, so Pingdom stays ahead for complex user journeys and team support.
What updown.io does better than Pingdom
- Pay-per-check pricing with no plan tiers
- 15-second check intervals
- A public list of monitoring nodes
- Payment by SEPA transfer
Where updown.io is a step down from Pingdom
- Transaction monitoring
- Real user monitoring
- Team support behind a single operator
Standout against Pingdom. Credits turn the price of monitoring into a per-check number that anyone can compute.
Best for: Developers and small SaaS teams that want a European vendor for checks plus a status page
Lightkeeper OÜ in Tallinn runs Phare, online since September 2022 and bootstrapped. The product sets uptime and API checks, TCP, ICMP and SSL monitoring next to incident timelines, postmortems that can be drafted with AI summaries, and public or private status pages on your own domain. The Hobby plan is free with unlimited team members and projects, and Scale starts at €5 a month plus usage.
Billing counts monitoring events, one per check run, so Phare's own example of a check every minute from two regions comes to about 90,000 events a month. That is easier to size than a Pingdom bundle but less predictable when frequency grows. The site names a European hosting provider, a CDN in Slovenia and publishes revenue and costs. Support is founder-led, with same-day answers rather than 24/7 cover.
What Phare does better than Pingdom
- Incident timelines and postmortems beside the checks
- Unlimited team members on the free plan
- Publicly stated European hosting, CDN and email providers
- Status pages on custom domains
Where Phare is a step down from Pingdom
- Real user monitoring
- Track record against a long-running service
- Round-the-clock support
Standout against Pingdom. Founder-published revenue and costs make Phare the most transparent vendor on this list.
Checkly
Berlin synthetic monitoring where browser checks are Playwright tests kept in your repository
Best for: Engineering teams that already write Playwright tests and want to run them as production monitors
Checkly takes the part of Pingdom that charges for advanced checks and turns it into code. Browser checks are Playwright test files, multi-step API checks chain requests with assertions, and a CLI lets you keep every monitor in version control and run the same checks in CI before a deploy reaches production. The company is based in Berlin, was founded in 2018, and lists a free tier and plans from €30 a month.
Checks run from 20+ data center locations, with alerts to Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, email, SMS and webhooks, plus public and private status pages. It is deliberately narrow: no infrastructure or APM, no real user monitoring, and it assumes someone on the team can write Playwright. For a marketing team that clicked checks together in Pingdom's interface, the switch is harder than for developers.
What Checkly does better than Pingdom
- Monitors stored as code and reviewed in pull requests
- Playwright-based browser checks that reuse test work
- CI gating before production
- Multi-step API checks with assertions
Where Checkly is a step down from Pingdom
- Real user monitoring
- A point-and-click setup for non-developers
- Check locations against Pingdom's 100+
Standout against Pingdom. Monitors live in the repository and can block a deployment through the CLI.
StatusCake
UK uptime and page speed monitor with a free plan of 10 monitors, closest to Pingdom's shape
Best for: Small sites that want Pingdom-style uptime, page speed and SSL checks and can start on a free plan
StatusCake, run by TrafficCake Limited since 2012, looks most like Pingdom of the tools here: uptime, page speed, domain and SSL monitoring in one account, with 10 free monitors at 5-minute intervals. Superior drops the interval to one minute across 100 monitors from €16.66 a month billed annually, and Business goes to 30-second checks across 300 monitors with server monitoring from €58.33 a month.
Plans are quoted in euro, which is simpler than Pingdom's configurator, but the company is registered in England, so it sits outside the EEA under the UK adequacy decision. Its data processing terms note that data may be processed outside the UK and EEA on AWS, Google Cloud and DigitalOcean. If your reason for leaving Pingdom is jurisdiction alone, StatusCake solves only part of it.
What StatusCake does better than Pingdom
- A usable free tier of 10 monitors
- Euro prices with an annual discount shown
- Page speed monitoring on a flat plan
- Check intervals down to 30 seconds
Where StatusCake is a step down from Pingdom
- EEA jurisdiction
- Real user monitoring
- Published security certifications
Standout against Pingdom. It is the tool whose free tier most resembles a small Pingdom account without a trial clock.
Best for: Freelancers and small agencies who want alerts that escalate to a phone call
Monitive Com SRL, a Romanian company founded in 2010 according to its terms, is built around escalation: an email on the first failure, an SMS after 3 minutes and a phone call after 10 minutes if the outage continues, with silent hours and acknowledgement links. Against Pingdom's email and SMS alerting, the phone-call step is the visible gain, and SLA tracking with PDF or HTML reports suits client work.
Checks cover HTTP/HTTPS with SSL verification, APIs, ping and TCP, from 20+ locations on the home page and 23 in the FAQ. The free plan is a single page at 10-minute intervals, status pages need Pro, and prices are in dollars ($7 a month versus $60 a year on different pages). Data hosting is not stated on the pages reviewed, and there is no transaction or real user monitoring to match Pingdom.
What Monitive does better than Pingdom
- Escalation up to a phone call
- Silent hours and per-monitor alert rules
- Branded status pages with grouped services
- A published entry price for five monitors
Where Monitive is a step down from Pingdom
- Transaction and real user monitoring
- A usable free plan
- A consistent location and price statement
Standout against Pingdom. The email, SMS, phone-call ladder is the clearest alert escalation on this list.
Best for: Individuals and small companies that want an inexpensive monitor with a simple status page
UptimeRobot s.r.o. states in its terms that the service is governed by Slovak law with the District Court of Bratislava I as venue, which makes the contract question easier to answer than Pingdom's. Checks include website, keyword, ping, port, API, UDP, cron and DNS, with intervals of 5 minutes on Free and down to 60, 30 and 15 seconds on paid plans. A failed check is rechecked from a second data center before alerting.
Prices are published in euro per year: Solo from €108, Team €360, Scale from €660. SSL monitoring only comes with paid plans, SMS and voice credits are bought separately, and data location is not stated on the pages we read. There are no transaction or real user monitoring features comparable to Pingdom's, so it replaces the uptime half only.
What UptimeRobot does better than Pingdom
- A free plan and euro yearly prices
- Cron, UDP and port checks
- Slovak-law terms with a named court
- Status pages on every plan
Where UptimeRobot is a step down from Pingdom
- Transaction monitoring
- Real user monitoring
- Stated data location
Standout against Pingdom. Its price list is the easiest to compare because every plan is a euro yearly figure.
Best for: Operations and SRE teams that need scripted web and API checks from many regions
Uptrends is the tool on this page that matches Pingdom's structure most closely: plain uptime checks, browser checks in Chrome and Edge, multi-step transaction checks, chained API calls and a real user monitoring add-on. Pro lists 1-minute uptime checks, transaction checks, SLA monitoring and more than 230 multi-select checkpoints, with Terraform and OpenTelemetry on Enterprise and a 30-day trial that carries Enterprise access.
The company now sits under ITRS Group Limited in London, whose legal pages name English law, and the supplier can be an affiliate named in the order form. Prices are in dollars (Core from $42 a month, Pro from $60), and the storage location of results is not stated on the pages we read. So the switch gives feature parity but not a clear move to an EEA contract.
What Uptrends does better than Pingdom
- Checkpoint count of 230+ on Pro
- Terraform and OpenTelemetry on Enterprise
- Unlimited public status pages on Pro
- Chained API checks with assertions
Where Uptrends is a step down from Pingdom
- Dollar pricing with unclear basis
- A contract that may sit with an affiliate
- A European company at the top of the group
Standout against Pingdom. It is the one European option here that offers browser, transaction and RUM-type coverage like Pingdom.
Best for: Teams with their own servers that want uptime checks as part of a wider infrastructure monitor
Zabbix is a different kind of replacement: a GPL monitoring platform from Zabbix SIA in Riga, used since 2005, with agent, agentless, SNMP and IPMI collection and distributed proxies. It collects data with agents and agentless checks, but the point is that it monitors servers, network gear and services together, with no licence cost at any scale. What you pay for is hardware and optional support.
Compared with Pingdom, nothing is hosted for you: you install it, tune it and operate its database, and outside-in checks only come from wherever you place the server or a proxy. There is no real user monitoring and tracing is not its strength. In return, telemetry about your estate never leaves your network. Choose it if the Pingdom bill grew with the number of things you monitor.
What Zabbix does better than Pingdom
- No licence cost at any size
- Monitoring servers and network as well as sites
- Data staying on your own hardware
- Open-source code you can inspect
Where Zabbix is a step down from Pingdom
- Setup effort against a hosted tool
- Ready-made multi-location external checks
- A polished interface and status pages
Standout against Pingdom. It is the only free and open-source option, with no meter on checks or hosts at all.
Paessler PRTG
Nuremberg sensor-based monitor for servers, network and cloud, self-hosted or hosted
Best for: IT departments that want one console for infrastructure and some website sensors
Paessler PRTG moves the comparison from websites to infrastructure. Paessler GmbH in Nuremberg sells a sensor-based console for servers, networks, cloud services and OT, with PRTG 500 from $200 a month up to PRTG 10000 from $1,642 a month, billed annually, and a 30-day trial with no credit card. Deployment is on your own server or as PRTG Hosted Monitor.
The pages we read describe sensors for common infrastructure, not the transaction scripts and public status pages that Pingdom customers buy. The sensor pricing can also rise quickly across a large estate, and the dollar prices sit oddly on a German product. Pick it when Pingdom was only one of several tools your IT team ran and you want them in one German-vendor console.
What Paessler PRTG does better than Pingdom
- Server, network and OT sensors in one console
- A hosted or self-hosted choice
- A German company under EU jurisdiction
Where Paessler PRTG is a step down from Pingdom
- Transaction and real user monitoring
- Public status pages
- Cost at large sensor counts
Standout against Pingdom. A 30-day fully featured trial without a credit card lets you test it against real infrastructure.
What actually breaks when you switch
The first break is alert routing. Pingdom bundles SMS alerts into its quantity steps, whereas Phare bills SMS and voice alerts per unit, Monitive sends SMS and calls through escalation, and UptimeRobot sells SMS and voice credits separately. Contact lists, on-call schedules and maintenance windows must be rebuilt, and any Slack or PagerDuty webhook that points at Pingdom needs a new URL. Expect false alarms in the first days while thresholds settle.
The second break is history. Uptime percentages, response-time graphs and 13 months of real user data stay in the Pingdom account, and we found no import route in any European tool on this page.
Export the reports you need for SLAs before cancelling, and check the subscription term, since the pricing page offers both annual and monthly payment and the terms of use page was not readable when we looked. Keep Pingdom running in parallel until the first month is over.
Can a European tool match Pingdom's transaction monitoring?
Mostly yes, and in some cases with more flexibility. Pingdom describes transaction monitoring as simulating sign-up, login, search and checkout flows, billed as advanced checks inside its bundles. Checkly and Hyperping run browser checks as Playwright scripts, and Uptrends offers browser and multi-step transaction checks in Chrome and Edge. The scripts are written in code, not recorded, so your first week involves re-creating each flow.
What you gain is that the same script can often serve in testing, in CI and in production. What you lose is a one-click recorder if that is what your team used. Test one checkout flow in two candidates before you commit, because selectors and wait conditions are where scripted monitors fail first.
Do we lose real user monitoring if we leave Pingdom?
Probably, unless you choose Uptrends, which lists an RUM add-on. Pingdom's real user monitoring is a separate subscription billed by pageviews, from 100,000 up to a billion, with unlimited sites and users. The other tools here watch your site from outside on a schedule rather than collecting data from visitors' browsers.
If you used RUM mainly for page load trends, a privacy-friendly web analytics tool from the EP directory can fill part of that gap. If you used it to alert on slow real sessions, you should keep that module or shortlist Uptrends and ask for the RUM terms in writing.
Which one to pick
If you mostly need to know that a site is up and a certificate is valid, pick Oh Dear for Belgian hosting and broader site checks, Hyperping when status pages and on-call matter, or updown.io when the price per check is the point.
Phare fits a small team that wants incident handling and a status page at a few euro a month. UptimeRobot and StatusCake are the straightforward choices for a free or low-cost plan, with the caveat that StatusCake is a UK company.
If you used transactions or real user monitoring, shortlist Checkly for code-defined Playwright checks and Uptrends for the closest feature match, while remembering that Uptrends now sits in a London group. If Pingdom was one tool among many for your IT department, Zabbix and Paessler PRTG are infrastructure monitors, not Pingdom clones, and you would keep a lighter website checker beside them.
Frequently Asked Questions
For plain uptime checks with SSL and broken-link coverage, Oh Dear in Belgium is the closest fit, with Hyperping in France if you also want on-call and a branded status page. Checkly in Berlin suits teams that script browser checks, updown.io in France is the cheapest for frequent checks, and Uptrends is the nearest to Pingdom's synthetic plus RUM structure. Which one is best depends on whether you use transactions and RUM.
No. The copyright line on pingdom.com names SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC, and the pricing page lists a US telephone number for sales and support. We could not read the terms of use text when we fetched the page, so we cannot say which law governs the contract or where check results are stored. Ask the vendor for the data processing terms and sub-processor list in writing.
Yes, several. StatusCake offers a free plan with 10 monitors, Hyperping a free plan with 20 monitors and 5-minute checks, UptimeRobot a free tier at €0, and Phare a free Hobby plan. Monitive's free plan is limited to one page at 10-minute intervals. Zabbix is free and open source but needs your own server. Pingdom itself lists a 30-day trial and no permanent free tier on the pages we read.
Pingdom says its uptime monitoring runs from over 100 locations worldwide. Uptrends lists more than 230 multi-select checkpoints on its Pro plan, and Checkly mentions 20+ data center locations for its checks. Others, such as Monitive, quote 20+ or 23, and updown.io publishes a node list. Count the locations you need by region rather than in total, since a European site rarely needs checks from South Africa.
Make a list of every check with its URL, interval, expected status, alert contacts and maintenance windows, then re-create them in the new tool. Pingdom publishes an API, which helps you read the existing configuration, but the European tools do not import from it that we could verify. Run both tools side by side for a week and compare when each one alerts before you cancel.
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