Uptimia Review 2023: Is It Worth Your Money?

Uptimia is one of the latest additions to the Uptime Monitoring Tools. So is Uptimia worth it? Should you go with Uptimia or stick with existing tools like Uptime Robot?

We'll find out the same in this Uptimia Review 2022. Please note, I've extensively used Uptimia for the past 2 days and explored its features and hence I am in a good position to write an honest review of Upimia.

If you found the review to be helpful, please consider using my affiliate link to make the purchase. Anyway, so without any further ado, let's go straight to the review.

Uptimia Review 2022: Is It Worth Your Money?

So let us go through the detailed review of Uptimia.

About Uptimia

Uptimia is a SaaS-based tool that allows you to monitor your website's uptime, it's page speed, and SSL status. You can also use Uptimia to monitor your real users as well as make sure your cart flow or signup flow is working flawlessly.

This one might sound a bit strange. However, Uptimia does not have an About Us Page on its website.

I had to dig deep into their Terms and Conditions to find out that the parent company of Uptimia is JJ Online GmbH which is a company based in Berlin, Germany.

Naturally, that's the only information I have about Uptimia.

Features of Uptimia

Uptimia, as such, is a feature-rich tool. Below are some of the features you get with the paid plan of Uptimia.

1. Uptime Monitoring

As you can probably make out from the name, Uptimia is primarily an Uptime Monitoring tool. Here''s how the Uptime Monitoring Interface of Uptimia looks like

You can monitor uptime for websites, network as well as Email service.

You can use either GET, POST or POST(raw string) request types to check if your website is up. You can also setup Uptimia to monitor Keywords on your page to mark the server as Up.

You can use Uptimia to monitor your website's uptime from 171 locations around the world. Uptime can be checked every minute for their Starter and Standard plans while it is 30 seconds for their Advanced and Enterprise plans.

On the higher end, you can have Uptimia to check uptime every 60 minutes. But I am not sure why anyone would want to do that.

One of the great things about Uptimia is that if it detects downtime, it again rechecks your website three more times before notifying you.

Downtime notifications can be sent through various channels including Email, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, PageDuty, Atlassian Statuspage, Mattermost, Twilio, Twitter as well as custom WebHooks.

You can select multiple contacts and channels to be notified in the case of downtime. This feature is especially helpful if you have a large team who needs to be notified about downtime.

You can also choose to be notified instantly or after up to 30 minutes from the time of downtime.

The advanced tab of Uptimia Settings allows you to select Timeout Settings, Error types to be reported, and mark rejected HTTP response types. You can also choose whether to follow HTTP redirects or not.

Uptimia also allows you to group various monitors for easy filtering. Quite helpful if you want to group monitors for a client or Multiple monitors for a domain name.

The last option is to select the monitoring locations or as they call Probe Locations. By default, Uptimia will check your uptime from all of its 171 locations one by one. However, if you have a local Business, you can select it to monitor uptime only from that location.

Why Is Monitoring Uptime Necessary? 

If your website is down, you must be able to detect it ASAP as it can lead to several problems. Below are some of the reasons why Uptime Monitoring is necessary.

2. Website Speed Monitoring

Uptimia also allows you to monitor your Website's Speed. Here's how the interface of Website Speed Monitoring Tool looks like.

Like in the case of Uptime Monitoring you can set the speed checking duration to as low as 1 minute with their Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise plan.

For the Starter plan, the speed checking is limited to once in 5 minutes. On the higher end, you can set it up to 60 minutes.

By default, Uptimia will check the speed from its 171 locations one by one. So, a speed check from New York will be performed once in 171 minutes if you set the speed checking duration to 1 minute.

You can, however, choose the locations that you want Uptimia to check your page speed from. Again, helpful if you have a local website.

As for the notifications, you can choose to get notifications through one of the available channels that we discussed earlier when your average website loading time increases above x seconds in the last y minutes.

The value of x varies from 1 second to 30 seconds while the value of y varies from 20 minutes to 60 minutes.

Again, you can group the monitors for better organization.

Why Is Speed Monitoring Necessary? 

Monitoring your website's speed is important for the following reasons

3. SSL Certificate Monitoring

Uptimia allows you to monitor the validity of your SSL certificate and will notify you through the available channels when it is about to expire. Here's how the SSL Certificate Monitoring Interface looks like

You can set the expiration threshold from 3 days to 90 days. As for the SSL certificate health checking duration, you can set it anywhere between 10 minutes to 60 minutes intervals.

Again, you can group the SSL certificate monitor and also select the locations for monitoring.

Why Is SSL Monitoring Necessary?

An SSL certificate is necessary for the following reasons:

4. Real User Monitoring

Real User Monitor is used for monitoring how your website loads for real users. This includes measuring page load times as well as Javascript errors.

To get started with Real User Monitoring, you will have to install a Javascript code on your website for measuring the Real User data. 

The Real User Monitoring tool provides you with a lot of useful data about your page load times for real users. This is how the basic summary interface of the Real User Monitoring Tool looks like.

The pages tab

The JavaScript Errors Tab

The load time map under Geographic tab

Countrywise data below the Load Time Map.

Load time data by Browsers.

Load time data by Device type.

The settings are pretty straightforward for Real User Monitoring. Apart from your website name and website URL, there's an Outage Alerting option that alerts you when you don't get any traffic to your website in the set amount of time that you can set to anywhere between 5 minutes to 60 minutes in the last

This feature although intended for monitoring outages, it can also be used to monitor any issues with your website traffic.

Likewise, the drop in traffic alerting feature will send out notifications if your website traffic falls below the threshold value ranging from 30% to 100% in the last 5 to 60 minutes.

The performance alerting feature will notify you when your page speed for real users drops below a certain threshold ranging from 30% to 100% in the last 5 to 60 minutes.

Likewise, the threshold can also be defined for Javascript errors.

In addition to that, you can also select how fast your website has to load to make sure they have a good experience. Any drop in that value and you will be notified about the same.

Why Is Real User Monitoring Important?

Real User Monitoring is important to improve your user's overall experience. Unlike Synthetic Monitoring, Real User Monitoring will give you an insight into how your website loads for actual users.

You can sort the data based on pages, countries, browsers as well as devices. This will help you identify any issues that might be affecting your user's experience and take steps to fix them.

5. Transaction Monitoring

This is one of the interesting features of Uptimia. It allows you to monitor if the transactions flow on your website is working as intended. The transaction could be anything from eCommerce Purchases to Subscriber Signups to Form Submissions.

You can monitor if each step in the flow is working fine. For example, if you have an e-commerce website, then you can set up a transaction monitor to track the purchase of a product.

I haven't yet set up a Transaction monitor so can't post a screenshot of it's interface. Coming to the settings, the first step is to select the URL of the page where the first transaction takes place. Click on Load to load the page.

In the next step, you can either Choose a command or Choose Validation

You can choose one of the following commands

You might have to choose multiple commands to complete a task. Depending on what you choose, you will be asked to first select the CSS identifier for the element.

If you've loaded the page, you will see all the CSS elements in the dropdown menu. In the image below, I've used the click element button. Hence, Uptimia shows me CSS Selector for all the elemnts on the page as shown in the image below.

If you choose the Choose Validation option, you will see the below validation options

In the image below, I have chosen the Check For Existence Of Element option and accordingly Uptimia shows me a list of CSS Selectors to pick from

Likewise, you have to define every step in the flow. Uptimia will follow these steps every 10 minutes to 12 hours, depending on the value you set.

If any of the steps fail, Uptimia will send a notification to you informing about the same.

Why Is Monitoring Transactions Important?

Monitoring Transactions is important as it allows you to track the most important user flows on your website. This will help you identify any issues that might be affecting these flows and take steps to fix them.

You certainly don't want to have a broken checkout process that affects your sales, right?

6. Public Status Pages

Uptimia also has a Public Status Page feature that allows you to share the status of your website with anyone. You can choose which monitors you want to include on the Status Page.

The Public Status Page is fully customizable and you can even add your own logo to it. You can also have a custom domain or custom subdomain for your status pages. Below image shows a screenshot of Blogging Ocean's Status Page

In the settings section of your status page, you can choose to display or hide the following

Why Are Public Status Pages Important?

Public Status Pages are important to share the status of your website with anyone. It can be your customers, partners, or investors.

This will help build trust and transparency. Moreover, it can also help you keep your stakeholders informed about any issues that might be affecting your website.

7. Scheduled Reports

You can choose to send scheduled reports to yourself, your clients, and your partners at a frequency that can be set to daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly.

In the reports, you can choose to send the following details

Apart from this, you can also choose the branding for the scheduled reports. This is how the report looks like

8. Custom Reports

Custom reports are similar to Scheduled reports except that you can choose to send one when you wish. Except for the frequency of reports, you can find all the options mentioned in the Scheduled reports in Custom reports too.

However, in the case of custom reports, instead of just sending the reports through one of the channels, you can also choose to download the reports or create a shareable public link for the same.

Here's the Shareable Report for Blogging Ocean Uptimia Monitors

https://www.uptimia.com/reports/report-202209179b68ec30461b3fa41189166fb03d48c8.html

Uptimia Roadmap

This Uptimia Review would be incomplete without discussing the roadmap of this startup. Uptimia has an interesting Roadmap with most of the popular features waiting to be developed in their pipeline.

Below are some of the notable features to be added.

1. Domain Monitoring Tool

Domain Monitoring Tool is already in progress. This tool will allow you to monitor the expiry of your domain name and inform you in advance so that you can renew the same.

2. API Monitoring

This tool will help you to monitor multiple-step API calls.

3. Heartbeat Monitoring

The Heartbeat monitoring tool will alert you when Uptimia stops receiving regular notifications from your server.

4. DNS Monitoring Tool

A tool to Monitor the DNS of your website

5. Virus Monitoring Tool

This tool will monitor your websites for any virus and malware and notify you in case it finds one.

6. Public API

Uptimia is planning to make its API available for public use.

You can check out Uptimia's Public Roadmap

Uptimia Pricing

Uptimia offers four different plans on its website. Below are the details of each of the plans

1. Starter Plan

The Starter plan is the most basic plan available on Uptimia. This plan is suitable for small businesses.

The starter plan is priced at $9/month when you pay annually and $10/month when you pay monthly and comes with the following features

2. Standard Plan

The Standard plan is the next highest plan of Uptimia. This plan is priced at $29/month when you pay annually and $34/month when you pay monthly.

The Standard Plan is suitable for small agencies and comes with the following features

3. Advanced Plan

The Advanced Plan is priced at $79/month when you pay yearly and $90/month when you pay monthly. This plan is suitable for Medium Sized agencies and comes with the following features

4. Enterprise Plan

The Enterprise Plan is priced at $159/month when you pay yearly and $185/month when you pay monthly and is suitable for Large agencies and comes with the following features

Uptimia Lifetime Deal (Uptimia AppSumo Deal)

Uptimia is currently offering a Lifetime Deal on its Standard and Advanced Plans. Below are the details of the deals and various plans

There are three plans available for AppSumo Uptimia Lifetime Deal. Branded Reports and Public Status Pages are available with all the plans.

As for the variables, you can find the information below.

1. Uptimia Lifetime Deal License Tier 1

The Uptimia AppSumo license Tier 2 has the same features and limitations as the Standard Plan

2. Uptimia Lifetime Deal License Tier 2

The Uptimia AppSumo License Tier 2 has the same features and limitations as the Advanced Plan of Uptimia

3. Uptimia Lifetime Deal License Tier 3

The Appsumo Uptimia License Tier 3 plan has the same features and limitations as the Enterprise Plan of Uptimia.

Uptimia Alternatives

If you’re not sure if Uptimia is the right fit for you, then this section will help you decide. Below are some of the best alternatives to Uptimia

1. Uptime Robot

Uptime Robot is one of the most popular alternatives to Uptimia. It has a generous free plan that allows you to host up to 50 monitors with the limitation being the uptime check frequency which is a minimum of 5 seconds.

However, Uptime Robots does not have many Uptime Checking Locations. It mostly checks the uptime from Dallas, US with 16 other locations for confirming the down statuses.

2. Solarwinds Pingdom

Pingdom is another popular alternative to Uptimia. It is a part of the SolarWinds family of products.

Pingdom isn't affordable by any means with its based plan for Synthetic Monitoring starting at $15/month for 10 Uptime Checks and 1 Advanced Check along with 150 SMS.

Real User Monitoring will cost you another $15 per month for 100,000 Page Views. However, if you chose to pay yearly, both plans are priced at $10/month, which is still on the higher side.

3. StatusCake

StatusCake is another alternative to Uptimia with a free tier that allows you to monitor up to 10 websites with a 5-minute frequency. You can also monitor Page Speed for 1 website with the free plan.

StatusCake's paid plans start at $24.49/month when you pay monthly and $20.41 when you pay yearly. This is the costliest when you consider the plan cost.

However, when you take into account the benefits you get and the number of monitors you get, the deal is decent and at par with others.

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Final Verdict On Uptimia

Uptimia is a great tool that offers great features like Uptime Monitoring, Page Speed Monitoring, SSL Monitoring, Real User Monitoring and Transaction Monitoring at an affordable pricing.

Yes, it does have it drawbacks like a very basic status page and SMS notifications limited to US and Canada. However, it's still a new tool and from my limited interaction with the team, they are open to suggestions and keen on making Uptimia one of the best tools.

However, given that they are offering Lifetime Deal on AppSumo for as low as $69, I'd say it's a steal deal even if Uptimia does not add more features to it. So make sure not miss this insane deal.