Dotcom-Monitor vs. Oh Dear

Dotcom-Monitor is a synthetic monitoring platform built around web application monitoring, using real-browser testing to confirm that websites, web applications, and APIs work correctly for actual users. Founded in 1998 and based in Minnesota, it runs checks continuously from more than 30 locations across 6 continents, combining outside-in visibility with private, behind-the-firewall monitoring in one platform. Web application monitoring is the core.

Oh Dear monitors the health of every website a team manages. Oh Dear checks uptime every minute from multiple locations and monitors SSL certificates, DNS records, domain expiration, scheduled tasks, broken links, mixed content, performance, Lighthouse, APIs, application health, ping, TCP ports, sitemaps, DNS blocklists and exposed ports. Oh Dear sends alerts through email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie and webhooks. Oh Dear includes branded status pages, client-ready reports, unlimited users and every monitoring feature on every plan.