Vigil compared with the tools you are probably using

Uptime monitoring, incident management and a telemetry (logs, metrics, traces) product, priced per responder and per pack.

Small team: about $240/month

The best-known free uptime checker, with paid tiers for faster intervals, seats, SMS credits and status pages.

Small team: $35–41/month plus seat add-ons, with no server monitoring

Freshping shut down: where to move. Freshworks disabled its free uptime monitor on March 6, 2026 and named no replacement.

Small team: not available (service discontinued)

The beloved open-source, self-hosted uptime monitor (MIT licence, 90k+ GitHub stars, 90+ notification services).

Small team: $0 plus a VPS and your time

SolarWinds' long-running synthetic and real-user monitoring service, priced with a slider by check count and pageviews.

Small team: see their pricing page (roughly $78/month for 50 checks, by third-party reports)

UK-based uptime, page-speed, SSL and domain monitoring with straightforward plans.

Small team: $20.41–24.49/month with no server monitoring

Uptime, browser checks, cron monitoring and status pages with SMS and phone alerts, priced by tier plus seats.

Small team: about $38/month for 5 people, $74 with private status pages

Monitoring as code for developers: Playwright browser checks and API checks, billed per run.

Small team: $64/month for 5 people, plus per-run overage on API checks (hundreds at 1-minute intervals)

The best-known hosted status page, sold separately for public and private pages and priced by subscribers and team members.

Small team: $29–79/month for the page alone, plus a monitoring tool

Fast, good-looking status pages with built-in monitors and on-call, sold at flat prices per tier.

Small team: $15–20/month public, $37.50–50/month private

Open-source synthetic monitoring and status pages checking from up to 28 regions, with flat plans and paid add-ons.

Small team: $75–100/month for 50 monitors

Cron job, heartbeat and uptime monitoring priced per monitor and per user, from the makers of crontab.guru.

Small team: $125/month for 50 monitors and 5 people

The well-loved, open-source cron job monitor run by one developer; 20 checks free, BSD-licensed if you self-host.

Small team: $0–20/month for cron jobs only

The standard for application error tracking, with tracing, session replay, profiling and logs, priced by prepaid event quotas.

Small team: $26/month for errors, about $75/month with 50 uptime monitors

Open-source, Sentry-SDK-compatible error tracking with simple uptime and performance monitoring; hosted or self-hosted.

Small team: $15–50/month for errors, no server or log monitoring

SmartBear's error monitoring and stability platform, strong on mobile apps, priced by event and span volume.

Small team: see their pricing page (volume-tiered)

Real-time error tracking with session replay and AI credits, priced by monthly occurrences.

Small team: about $29/month at 50k events, errors only

Developer-friendly error tracking with uptime checks, cron check-ins, logs (Insights) and a status page in one flat plan.

Small team: $26/month with 5 uptime monitors, $80 for cron schedules

The incident response and on-call standard: schedules, escalation, phone and SMS paging, priced per user.

Small team: $105–125/month for 5 users, plus monitoring

Atlassian's alerting and on-call tool: no new sales since June 4, 2025, shutting down on April 5, 2027.

Small team: not for sale (shuts down April 5, 2027)

The full observability platform: infrastructure, APM, logs, synthetics, RUM, security and more, each billed separately.

Small team: from $45/month for hosts alone, typically several hundred with synthetics and logs

All-in-one observability priced by data ingested and by user: generous free tier, expensive full-platform seats.

Small team: $10/month for one full user, $406/month for five, plus any ingest above 100 GB

Hosted Grafana with Prometheus metrics, Loki logs, Tempo traces, synthetics and IRM, billed per unit above a large free tier.

Small team: $19/month plus usage; synthetics at 1-minute intervals push it past $1,000

All-in-one APM with errors, performance, host metrics, logs, uptime and check-ins, priced by request volume with no overage bills.

Small team: from $23.25/month billed yearly, by request volume

Enterprise observability with AI-driven root cause (Davis), priced by the hour per host, per GiB of logs and per synthetic request.

Small team: roughly $175/month for 3 hosts plus $430–2,160/month for 50 synthetic monitors depending on interval