BCDRPulse or a dedicated uptime monitor?
A dedicated monitor does one job and usually goes further at it. Our monitoring is one part of an account that also tests and scans the same verified sites.
A specialised tool
A dedicated uptime monitor
Side by side.
| What is compared | BCDRPulse | A dedicated uptime monitor |
|---|---|---|
| How often it checks | As often as every minute on Pro and Business, every 5 minutes on Free | Often every minute; some paid plans check every 30 seconds or faster |
| Where it checks from | Cloudflare's network, one request per check | Often several regions at once, to rule out a local fault |
| Alerts | Email and webhook (a webhook can post to a chat tool) | Often SMS, phone calls and on-call schedules as well |
| Status pages | None | Often included |
| Team seats | One user per account today | Often several, with roles |
| In the same account | Load and stress tests, security scans, TLS analysis and resilience campaigns, on the same sites | Usually monitoring only |
| Which sites | Only sites you have verified you own | Usually any address you enter |
| Free plan | 10 sites, checked every 5 minutes, with alerts | Varies from tool to tool |
Which one?
Choose BCDRPulse when
- You want monitoring, tests and scans for the same sites in one place.
- Email and webhook alerts are enough for you.
- You look after your own sites, and can add a DNS record to each.
Choose a dedicated uptime monitor when
- You need SMS or phone alerts, or an on-call rota.
- You need checks more often than every minute, or from several regions at once.
- You want a public status page, or to watch a site you cannot verify.
This page names no company and no product of another company. "Often", "usually" and "some" describe what tools of this kind commonly publish; set the limits of the one you are weighing beside the figures on our pricing page.
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Start with your own sites.
Monitoring is free for 10 sites. Add the tests when you need them.