As we look forward to 2021, Synthetic Monitoring continues to be as important as ever in understanding the performance of your app or website. But your synthetic monitoring is only as good as the tool you're using and there are a lot of product choices. Since selecting the best one for you is critical, the choice can be overwhelming. Price, setup ease, accuracy, and more play a part in the best solution.
In this article, I reviewed six popular synthetic monitoring choices: Updown.io, UptimeRobot, StatusCake, Site24x7, Pingdom, and DataDog, and applied several measurements against them in a real-world situation to see how each product performed. Then, I set up a typical example of deployment on DigitalOcean and ran tests for five days against each product. Finally, I collected the metrics and compared them against one another to determine which tool was the best.