A Tour of Website Monitoring Tools

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Fathom Analytics

Fathom, a well-known alternative with a focus on simplicity and privacy.

#Open Source #Analytics #Privacy 60 social mentions

2

UptimeRobot

Uptime Robot, a very popular uptime monitoring service with a free plan.

#Monitoring Tools #Website Monitoring #Uptime Monitoring 5 social mentions

3

Splitbee

Splitbee, focused on simple analytics while offering some distinct automation and conversion optimization features.

#Analytics #Web Analytics #SEO Tools 14 social mentions

4

Simple Analytics

Simple Analytics, a popular alternative from the Netherlands with some pretty distinctive features such as a "tweet viewer" and social share banners. Also highly focused on privacy and simplicity.

#Analytics #Web Analytics #Privacy 26 social mentions

5

Rollbar

Rollbar, another great alternative which is quite popular with enterprise companies.

#Error Tracking #Bug Trackers #Crash Reporting 22 social mentions

6

RayGun Pulse

Raygun, which also offers others error reporting and an APM product.

#Analytics #Developer Tools #Web Analytics 1 social mentions

7

Plausible.io

Plausible, another open source alternative, but focused on privacy. Their cloud offering is affordable and based in the EU.

#Analytics #Web Analytics #Privacy 200 social mentions

8

Panelbear

Panelbear, while it's not entirely focused on being a marketing analytics tool, I think it's a great alternative if you're looking for simple analytics without cookies. Full disclosure: I'm currently building this tool. In case you check it out, let me know what you think!

#Website Analytics #Analytics #Developer Tools 10 social mentions

9

Nodeping

NodePing, a less known website monitoring service, but previous teams I've worked at used to monitor some pretty mission-critical sites and it was rock solid throughout the 5 years we depended on it. Not affiliated in any way, just happy with their service.

#Website Monitoring #Monitoring Tools #Uptime Monitoring 3 social mentions

10

New Relic APM

New Relic, their APM is one of the most popular out there and integrates well with the rest of their stack.

#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Testing 5 social mentions

11

Mixpanel

Mixpanel, a very popular tool focused on event and conversion tracking. Something interesting is that they have an EU Data Residency program, which lets you pick whether to store the data in the US or Europe to simplify compliance.

#Analytics #Web Analytics #Mobile Analytics 28 social mentions

12

Matomo

Matomo, a popular open source alternative to Google Analytics. You can either self-host or let them manage a cloud instance for you.

#Analytics #Web Analytics #Privacy 85 social mentions

13

Heap

Heap, a cool feature is that integrating it on your website is relatively simple, it just tracks every interaction so you can more easily understand product usage with little effort.

#User Analytics #Analytics #Web Analytics 11 social mentions

14

Better Uptime

Better Uptime, one of the newer alternatives, combines incident management and monitoring in one tool.

#Website Monitoring #Uptime Monitoring #Monitoring Tools 5 social mentions

15

Amplitude

Amplitude, another popular alternative which focuses on segmentation and user journeys. It groups similar to users so you can analyse usage patterns rather than individual actions.

#Analytics #Web Analytics #Open Source 42 social mentions