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RealUptime Monitor vs HetrixTools

HetrixTools is priced like a hosting-industry tool: a generous free tier of uptime monitors, plus blacklist (RBL) monitoring that mail and hosting providers genuinely need. RealUptime Monitor is built for the on-call side of the same job: server agents, check ladders, rotations, escalation policies, and a public status page that updates from the same probes.

Free uptime monitors

Have

10 monitors free, plus 3 server-agent slots

Have

a notably large free monitor allowance, per its pricing page

Server agent (CPU, memory, disk, services)

Have

open agent for Linux, macOS, and Windows; 3 servers free, 10 on Growth, 40 on Scale

Have

server monitoring agent with resource usage tracking

Blacklist (RBL) monitoring

Don’t have

not offered; SSL-certificate and domain-expiry alerts ship, but RBL checking is out of scope

Have

IP and domain blacklist monitoring is a headline feature

On-call rotations and escalation policies

Have

rotations, escalation policies, and acknowledgement on paid rungs; pages by email, Slack, webhook, or your PagerDuty, with no phone or SMS paging of its own

Partial

rich alert contacts and integrations, but no rotation scheduling advertised on its pricing or feature pages

Public status page from the same checks

Have

RealUptime Status shares the account and the 4-region probe fleet

Partial

public report pages for monitors; not a standalone status-page product

Looking for a HetrixTools alternative?

For the reasoning behind checking from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage. Comparing more than just this one alternative? The status page tool checklist covers what to test before committing to any of them.