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Uptrends

Score8.1 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Uptrends?

Uptrends is the eponymous product from the company in Massachusetts for monitoring a website's uptime, used as well for monitoring web apps' functioning, server monitoring with alerts and reporting, and general analysis of a website's performance, element-by-element.

Top Performing Features

  • Network device monitoring

    Monitor the real-time performance and health of devices on your network

    Category average: 5.6

  • Data visualization

    Ability to produce visualizations to simplify understanding of data

    Category average: 8.3

  • Remote monitoring

    Monitoring of network operational activities through the use of remote devices known as monitors or probes

    Category average: 7.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Risk analysis

    Indicators of risk factors that need to be addressed

    Category average: 8.3

  • Multi-device monitoring

    Network device monitoring in real time for any devices on your network

    Category average: 8.2

  • Antivirus and malware management

    Detection of security risks like malware and viruses

    Category average: 5.4

Uptrends has saved us thousands of man hours monitoring our sites uptime and speed

Pros

  • Monitors downtime.
  • Waterfall of resources when loading pages.

Cons

  • I'd like to be able to be notified via text message of any downtimes.

Return on Investment

  • Ability to monitor uptime.
  • Cost savings over competitors.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Pingdom

Great tool for web performance and availability monitoring

Pros

  • Detailed alerts in case a check fails with error codes.
  • Worldwide checkpoint

Cons

  • Custom alert text option on mail
  • The synthetic tool needs some improvement when the last used device has not to support for recording scenarios in iframe located elements.

Return on Investment

  • 1st getting info about issues
  • Automated escalation helps to save time and avoid human kind mistakes.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Pingdom, Site24x7 and AlertSite

Other Software Used

New Relic, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, Postman