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Pulsetic vs UpDog
Pulsetic focuses on ultra-fast checks (30 s) from many locations, whereas UpDog offers minute-level checks with team features.
Which to pick
Pick Pulsetic if you want…
- Multi-channel alerts with regional verification
- High-frequency website checks
- Integrations with Twilio, Zapier or API (on Pulsetic's list, not UpDog's)
Pick UpDog if you want…
- Hosted uptime monitoring with status pages
- Integrations with Email, SMS or Microsoft Teams (on UpDog's list, not Pulsetic's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Pulsetic:Pulsetic monitors website uptime, SSL, keywords, ports, APIs and real user performance, sending alerts via phone, SMS, email and chat.
- UpDog:UpDog is a hosted uptime monitoring service with status pages and multi-channel alerts.
- Best for
- Pulsetic:Multi-channel alerts with regional verification
- UpDog:Hosted uptime monitoring with status pages
- Who it’s for
- Pulsetic:Websites, SaaS, e-commerce and developers needing reliable uptime monitoring.
- UpDog:Teams and solo developers who need website, API and service monitoring.
- Pricing
- Pulsetic:Freemium
- UpDog:Freemium
- Plans
- Pulsetic:Free $0 · Solo $9 per month · Team $19 per month · Organization $49 per month
- UpDog:Puppy Free
- Works with
- Pulsetic:Slack, Discord, Telegram, Twilio, Zapier, Webhooks, API
- UpDog:Email, SMS, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Telegram, Splunk
Pulsetic features
- Regional Failure Confirmation. Checks are re-verified from multiple data centers before an alert is sent, preventing false alarms.
- Multi-Channel Alerts. Phone calls, SMS, WhatsApp, email, Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, webhooks and API.
- Customizable Status Pages. Public or private pages on your own domain with branding, password or SSO protection.
- Real User Monitoring (RUM). Measures LCP, CLS, INP, FCP and other metrics on real visitors, with 1,000 page views free per month.
- Dependency & Service Monitoring. Email alerts when external services like Stripe or GitHub experience incidents.
- AI Assistant. Ask plain-language questions about downtime and let the AI create, pause or open monitors.
UpDog features
- Website & API monitoring. Checks URLs, APIs and ports continuously and alerts on failures.
- SSL & DNS checks. Monitors certificate expiry and DNS record changes.
- Cron & heartbeat monitoring. Tracks scheduled jobs and background tasks without agents.
- Public status pages. Creates branded status pages with uptime and response-time charts.
- Multi-channel alerts. Sends alerts via email, SMS (paid), Slack, Discord, Teams, PagerDuty, Telegram and webhooks.
- Team collaboration. Shared organization, role-based invites and multiple user seats per plan.
Pulsetic vs UpDog FAQ
Is Pulsetic or UpDog free?+
Pulsetic has a free plan; paid plans start at $9/month (Solo). UpDog has a free plan (Puppy) and paid plans.
Do Pulsetic and UpDog integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list Slack, Discord, Telegram and Webhooks. Pulsetic also lists Twilio, Zapier and API; UpDog also lists Email, SMS, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty and 1 more.
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