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Downtime Monkey vs Site monitoring

A side-by-side look at Downtime Monkey and Site monitoring. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Downtime Monkey

Downtime Monkey

Development

Downtime Monkey is a Chaos Engineering tool that helps developers build resilient applications. It randomly simulates failures like network issues, CPU hogs, file blockers, etc. to proactively test applications for failure conditions.

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Site monitoring

Site monitoring

Network & Admin

Site monitoring software checks a website periodically to ensure it is up and running properly. It alerts you if your site goes down or has other issues like slow load times. Popular options include Uptime Robot, Pingdom, and SolarWinds Web Help Desk.

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