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Oh Dear

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 2 - Reviews of Oh Dear

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Emanuele F.  
developer and consultant  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "A simple yet useful monitoring tool"

July 11, 2025

5.0

My experience has been smoothless. I needed a tool that would allow me to have an overview of the health status of a web app and alert me when something isn't working. I found it all in Oh Dear.

Pros

I like the ease of use well balanced with the available features. I think is a very well balanced solution between features and simplicity.

Cons

It's not the most advanced tool available, so if you need a lot of insight maybe this is not for you.

Review Source

HB

Harrison B.  
Technical Director  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Perfect for 90% of monitoring needs"

December 19, 2024

5.0

Generally excellent. Well-made, highly reliable and well-priced for the feature set it comes with. It's easy for my team to get going with as well as it's nicely designed and they've gone with a small, curated set of features (rather than chucking everything in).

Pros

So many monitoring systems are either massive overkill and overkill, or half-baked and insufficient. OhDear sits perfectly in the middle and is a well-designed, fantastic monitoring system that's perfect for a lot of sites and apps. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles, and for my firm there's still a place for expensive tools such as Datadog, but for the majority of use-cases OhDear is about perfect.

Cons

Almost nothing, really. For large complex products we can't \*only\* use OhDear as we sometimes also need things like automated multi-step browser tests, but for 80% of what we do OhDear is excellent.

Alternatives considered

[Datadog](https://www.capterra.com/p/135453/Datadog-Cloud-Monitoring/)

Reason for choosing Oh Dear

We chose both. We use OhDear for a lot of our clients who don't need sophisticated, heavyweight services.

Switched from

[Pingdom](https://www.capterra.com/p/131928/Pingdom/)

OhDear is simply better. The pricing is more sensible, especially since Pingdom's acquisition by Solarwinds, and the features and design is far better.

Review Source

PD

Peter D.  
CPTO  
Media Production  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "No-bloat, easy-to-use tool for your tool box."

November 14, 2025

5.0

Pros

It has a really sleek interface compared to the competition. It is just really nice to use. Also I like the feature set. It as everything you need, both for websites and for individual services. Oh, and it is super reliable.

Cons

Not much to dislike. It is a very focused tool doing a job really well. The only thing is that the integrations for PHP seem to be better then the ones for TS or Python. But that has not been a problem for us.

Review Source

DV

Dimitrios V.  
Computer and Internet Services  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Very good Online app, thank you!"

December 18, 2024

5.0

Very good Online app for me and my customers.

Pros

The clean UI, the Statistics and the Status Pages are great for me.

Cons

I am using the Email and Pushover to receaving notifications and the Pushover app sometimes not working or lagging to send me the notifications. Perhaps if you create an official app of the Oh Dear, it works better than Pushover app.

Switched from

[Pingdom](https://www.capterra.com/p/131928/Pingdom/)

Because Pingdom It's too expensive for me now.

Review Source

FG

Franco G.  
CTO  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Truly great tool"

December 18, 2024

5.0

It’s a truly great tool that I constant recommend. We migrated from a competitor and would do it again any time.

Pros

It has an impressive variety of checks, ensuring you really are monitoring every little detail. On top of that you can implement custom checks. It also has great alerting settings with account and site granularity and fallbacks. You can even snooze alerts. The product is constantly evolving and improving.

Cons

It occasionally takes a while to load, maybe related to the amount of sites we have

Switched from

[Uptimerobot](https://www.capterra.com/p/234440/Uptimerobot/)

Features, alerts settings, the team behind

Review Source

ND

Nicolas D.  
Developer  
Internet  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The ideal dev Swiss knife"

December 26, 2024

5.0

Use it daily, directly from the dashboard and via notifications, for all my projects - and it's been 5 years

Pros

It's the ideal dev Swiss knife: uptime, performance, certificate health, DNS, broken links, mixed content, and more in one place. Slack notifications out-of-the box are really great. Significant updates are

Cons

Not a big fan of the UI when I started using it in 2019... but the whole dashboard has been revamped since so really, it's perfect.

Alternatives considered

[Better](https://www.capterra.com/p/143963/The-Better-Software/)

Reason for choosing Oh Dear

Documentation makes the service seem overkill. Please note it is Better Stack concerned here (not available in list)

Switched from

[Pingdom](https://www.capterra.com/p/131928/Pingdom/)

Number of functionalities, UI, accuracy of alerts

Review Source

AS

Austin S.  
Consultant  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Robust Website Monitoring Tool"

December 9, 2024

5.0

Pros

I've used several website monitoring tools over the years, and OhDear is by far the easiest and most robust. We use OhDear to monitor our client sites, broken links, DNS, SSL certs, lighthouse speeds, and more. Their API is just as powerful.

Cons

I have no dislikes. The only thing that I would like to see is the ability to monitor script tags in source code. For example, if a Google Analytics tag goes missing.

Switched from

[StatusCake](https://www.capterra.com/p/184436/StatusCake/)[Pingdom](https://www.capterra.com/p/131928/Pingdom/)[Uptimerobot](https://www.capterra.com/p/234440/Uptimerobot/)

Ease of use and a robust suite of monitoring tools besides uptime monitoring. Their API is developer-friendly and powerful.

Review Source

TD

Tim D.  
Senior developer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Easy to implement, great service"

January 19, 2026

5.0

Pros

Easy to implement, and I had great feedback from their helpdesk. They even added a new feature based on my feedback.

Cons

Nothing so far, i would highly recommend their service. It didn’t have specific c# instructions, but everyone with even a bit of experience will be able to implement it on the platform of their choice

Review Source

JW

Jamie W.  
Head of Engineering  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Love OhDear"

December 9, 2024

5.0

Really love using it. Use it for all the websites at our agency and recommend it to all our cliengs

Pros

I love the many different checks available, it was ahead of the game when it launched and keeps improving. I also like grouping my sites, and the many notifications and their in-depth customisability

Cons

It only seems to check the homepage of the site. It would be great to be able to check multiple pages without using up more of the site limit, for up time of crucial pages

Switched from

[Pingdom](https://www.capterra.com/p/131928/Pingdom/)

Pingdom didn’t offer as many features as OhDear

Review Source

LW

Luca W.  
Software Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Good & Stable"

December 27, 2024

5.0

Compared to other big service providers for uptime monitorings, oh dear is very good. There are no false positives and the service works as it should.

Pros

\- European service - Multiple monitoring services - Does the job very good and stable

Cons

\- Pricing - Missing alert configurations - Contact possibilities / Support

Alternatives considered

[24x7 Customer](https://www.capterra.com/p/10026637/24x7-Customer/)[Uptimerobot](https://www.capterra.com/p/234440/Uptimerobot/)

Reason for choosing Oh Dear

We are using multiple tools. Mostly we are using ohdear for a small amount of our pages due to the high pricing and the unreachable support.

Review Source

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Webdeveloper  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Reliable Website Monitoring with Powerful Features"

December 17, 2024

5.0

My overall experience with Oh Dear has been excellent. It’s a reliable and user-friendly tool for monitoring website uptime, broken links, and overall health.

Pros

The user-friendly interface, reliable uptime monitoring, and powerful broken link checker make Oh Dear! an essential tool for website health management.

Cons

The tool can occasionally be slow when switching between panels, which can disrupt the workflow.

Review Source

AM

Adam M.  
Product Lead  
Internet  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Does what we need with minimal fuss"

January 7, 2025

5.0

We switched from another provider because it became overly complicated to use and wasn't performing as we wanted. Plus costs were increasing that we couldn't justify. Oh Dear was refreshing because it just does what we want/need without unnecessary bloat. So often platforms constantly add features and functionality causing unwanted distractions as a customer. Oh Dear does the things we want whilst remaining simple to use and using up minimal time. We run a couple of accounts for multiple projects and have no reason to look elsewhere.

Pros

A nicely designed product that does what we want it to do without any unnecessary fuss.

Cons

Nothing negative to report at this time.

Switched from

[Pingdom](https://www.capterra.com/p/131928/Pingdom/)

Ease of use as Pingdom was too complicated for our needs.

Review Source

Owen V.  
Senior Backend Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Great product"

December 22, 2024

5.0

Pros

I love having all my site management in one place with a sleek interface.

Cons

I wish there were some more API integrations for new features, but they get added fairly quickly.

Review Source

Adam W.  
Owner  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Does everything I need reliably"

January 15, 2025

5.0

Pros

Simple to use, integrates with Laravel easily and has all of the features I require.

Cons

There is really not much I can say about liking something the least. It does everything I need it to!

Review Source

AV

Arwin V.  
Software developer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Very intuitive monitor system"

December 19, 2024

5.0

The dashboard give a nice user experience, good notification options. We came from uptimerobot, but OhDear saved us a lot time with the application health monitors!

Pros

Number of monitoring options, like ssl, custom application health and of course uptime.

Cons

No custom ping monitors for smtp server uptime.

Switched from

[Uptimerobot](https://www.capterra.com/p/234440/Uptimerobot/)

Custom application health monitoring for advanced monitors

Review Source

HK

Heiko K.  
CEO  
Human Resources  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Very good and easy tool, great Laravel integration"

December 19, 2024

5.0

The integration was easy and well documented

Pros

The very good integration with laravel, fair pricing, good features. I really like how they keep pushing the product.

Cons

Services live cronitor.io give a lot more insights

Alternatives considered

[Cronitor](https://www.capterra.com/p/276753/Cronitor/)

Reason for choosing Oh Dear

The Pricing and the laravel integration. And i also wanted to support the laravel ecosystem.

Review Source

DL

Dave L.  
DevOps  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Excellent website monitoring"

January 8, 2025

5.0

Excellent for website monitoring, not as easy to use for web apps with multiple services/domains/daemons/etc.

Pros

The level of integration with Laravel is excellent

Cons

Our apps have many modules on multiple domains. This forces us to use the "pro" subscription which is not that bad, but the tracking of multiple services, daemons, schedules, on different servers behind load balancing is not easy, but it is a tough requirement.

Review Source

MD

Mark D.  
CTO  
Design  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "OhDear keeps you calm and alerts you instantly"

December 9, 2024

5.0

Pros

The extensive checks suite makes it the central place to monitor your applications

Cons

Dashboard is sometimes very slow when searching for a website or performing an action; not always clear that the website is in a 'loading' state.

Switched from

[Uptimerobot](https://www.capterra.com/p/234440/Uptimerobot/)

More checks available in OhDear, more modern look

Review Source

VR

Verified Reviewer  
CTO  
Real Estate  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best-in-class monitoring tool at a very affordable price!"

December 20, 2024

5.0

Pros

Oh Dear is a best-in-class monitoring tool, it's very reliable (zero issues since we've started using it about 3 years ago), and the pricing is really straightforward and very economical (compared to other alternatives within the same space).

Cons

I can't think of anything at the moment.

Review Source

MT

Michel T.  
Web and Cloud Engineer  
Hospitality  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Amazing app, support, and pricing"

December 18, 2024

5.0

The app is great, pricing is very reasonable, and once properly configured - which is quite easy, but takes some time given the impressive amount of monitoring options - it's a must-have. Also support is super reactive and very friendly

Pros

Very friendly interface, crystal clear configuration, amazing Laravel integration

Cons

Not being able to buy some kind of credit to add more cronjob monitoring

Switched from

[Uptimerobot](https://www.capterra.com/p/234440/Uptimerobot/)

If we must pay, I want more features. OhDear had these

Review Source

SS

Simon S.  
CEO  
Internet  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great Monitoring Service With Awesome Docs, API and Support"

December 18, 2024

5.0

Pros

Great range of health checks for websites / web services. Great notification settings. Great docs and API. And if there are issues or questions, the support is very fast and helpful.

Cons

I don't like that the pricing is based on bulk packages. You don't pay per site, but per 5 / 10 / 25 / 50 / ... sites. So if you use 26 sites, you have a relatively bad price per site, whereas you have a very good price if you use 25 sites.

Switched from

[Uptimerobot](https://www.capterra.com/p/234440/Uptimerobot/)

More features, better price, well-known developers.

Review Source

MR

Maurice R.  
Freelance Webdesigner  
Design  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Website Maintenance Made Easy: Intuitive, Efficient, and Fairly Priced"

May 28, 2025

5.0

It's a clean and easy to use service which doesn't require technical know-how to set up and is perfect for webdesigners maintaining a few client's pages. It's not complicated and just works! I really really like it!

Pros

This design is super user-friendly and easy to navigate. Adding a page is a breeze, and the notifications are quick and easy to understand. If you use multiple pages, the price is reasonable and can easily be added to a web maintenance service for your customers. The support is quick to respond and friendly.

Cons

I wish there was an option to just have a single page to check which was a little more cheap. (2 - 5 € / month)

Review Source

NL

Nicolas L.  
CTO  
Internet  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great value for the price, must-have tool"

December 10, 2024

5.0

Started using 2 1/2 years ago as a simple monitoring tools. Has become a daily must-have for uptime, performance and page speed metrics audit.

Pros

Simple, fast, efficient and not expensive. The kind of tool I like. Great value.

Cons

Nothing actually. We do not ask it much. It does perfectly what we want.

Review Source

SN

Sagar N.  
Director  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Reliable Website Monitoring Tool"

December 9, 2024

5.0

Very well-suited for developers, agencies, and businesses that prioritize performance and security.

Pros

Oh Dear! is an excellent platform for website and server monitoring, and there are several standout aspects, - Comprehensive Monitoring Features - Proactive Alerts through email, slack etc. - Developer-Friendly - Customization available and enough Transparency

Cons

Limited Free Tier: Unlike some competitors, Oh Dear! does not offer a free tier for users who want basic monitoring, which might deter those testing the waters. maybe offer free version with limited alerts and features.

Switched from

[Sentry](https://www.capterra.com/p/166136/Sentry/)[BugSnag](https://www.capterra.com/p/265817/Bugsnag/)

OhDear was combination for all we need instead of using multiple services

Review Source

Julius K.  
Freelancer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Simplicity for Availability, Functionality and User Experience"

December 20, 2024

5.0

Pros

I really like the simplicity of running multiple checks to ensure the availability, functionality and user experience on my websites and apps. As well as changed to Performance, Domains, Certificates, etc.

Cons

Broken Link Checks only run for 20 minutes per site, which is not enough for really large sites. (Though you can split your site into subsites and get 20 minutes for each subset)

Review Source

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