Ask HN: How do you monitor uptime?

We use Pingdom and it's awesome. The dashboard is really nice and the service is very reliable. My sole complaint is that their starter plan only includes Real User Monitoring for one website. Have to jump up to the $46 / month plan for more RUM sites.

Nice. Thanks. So RUM is a big value prop? Do you use an analytics service also?

RUM is definitely a big value prop. I like keeping an eye on how quickly our site loads in different countries and on various devices.

For analytics we use Clicky and it's decent. There's a 3rd party Chrome extension which is useful for seeing, at a glance, how many people are on our site.

Another big value prop is integrations with services like Slack.

I use Pingdom. We need uptime monitoring to satisfy a clause in our SLA and because we like being transparent with our users about our uptime.

Used to use Pingdom but currently trying out NewRelic Synthetics

Nice. Why did you switch away from Pingdom. How do you like New Relic.

we use pingdom and their email notification service which work brilliant for us.