AlertSite vs Runscope [EOL] comparison

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AlertSite

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Runscope [EOL]

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Categories and Ranking

AlertSite

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (39th), API Monitoring Software (3rd)

Runscope [EOL]

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

RituRaj

SDE 2 at Virtusa

Proactive monitoring has improved uptime and now detects performance issues before users suffer

The user interface and configuration experience could be more modern and streamlined in some areas, especially when managing a large number of monitors or creating complex monitoring workflows. Better navigation, integration, and more intuitive customizations for the dashboard and alerts would improve the overall operational experience. Dashboard customizations and reporting flexibility represent another improvement area. More advanced visualization options and an easier way to create tailored operational dashboards would help the team analyze trends and share insights more effectively. The integration ecosystem could also be expanded further, especially for modern DevOps and cloud-native workflows. Stronger native integrations with collaboration tools, observability platforms, and CI/CD pipelines would make it easier to fit into the evolving engineering environment. It would also help to have more automation-friendly capabilities such as easier API-based configurations, management, and infrastructure as code support for monitor provisioning. That would make large-scale monitoring management more efficient for the DevOps team. From a support perspective, the experience has been generally stable, but faster turnaround times for more complex technical issues and more detailed troubleshooting guidance would be beneficial. Improved documentation and more advanced implementation best practices for enterprise-scale deployment would also help the team onboard and optimize the platform more effectively. AlertSite would benefit from continued modernizations in a few areas. The biggest improvement would be a more intuitive and modern user experience for configuring monitoring, managing alerts, and navigating dashboards, especially in larger environments with many monitored services. Stronger integrations with modern cloud-native DevOps ecosystems including better automation support, richer APIs, and easy integration with CI/CD pipelines and observability platforms would also be helpful. Another improvement area is intelligent alert management. Features such as smart alert correlations, anomaly detections, and noise reduction would help operations teams focus on the most critical incidents more effectively.

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Director5672

Director of Engineering at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Enables us to monitor API endpoints to ensure everything is running

I've noticed, once or twice, when there were some updates pushed by Runscope, at times it didn't refresh the pages. I was running it, there were multiple tests running at the same time, and it didn't update the webpage I was looking at. So I had to refresh it manually. Occasionally, it still happens. Another thing I have found is that the built-in editor for the scripts can be improved a lot. Instead of making such a basic editor, maybe include a little more so it is easier to look at things and debug. Finally, other than the Runscope documentation, I haven't seen too much elsewhere. I haven't seen a user community.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"This solution has numerous advantages; it's extremely simple to configure, and either digital monitors or single-URL monitors are simple to configure and build."

"AlertSite has helped improve issue detection, reduce downtime risk, and support faster troubleshooting in the production environment."

"My company went with AlertSite because as a tool, it's fast, easy to maintain, and provides great support."

"I found multiple features in AlertSite that I like. One is data monitoring history, for example, a history of the blackouts and the data. Sometimes, there's a glitch in the application that AlertSite can capture, and the tool notifies you about that glitch. It also identifies issues that could happen in the future. AlertSite is also a fast tool that you can use to monitor on-premise servers, internal applications, and even global applications. The data is available on a single UI in AlertSite, so there's no need to monitor and click on different applications or URLs. I also love that the tool is quite user-friendly, apart from being fast."

"If there are any issues, it triggers an alert within 30 seconds. When it triggers the alert, we go ahead and check it immediately. The alert is triggered on a real-time basis."

"I highly recommend AlertSite to other users."

"The alerting capabilities of AlertSite were really helpful."

"There are custom reports available along with the inbuilt reports."

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"We have the ability to populate environment variables using scripts, which allows us to keep the configuration mostly dynamic and avoid a lot of manual updates when something changes."

"We utilize modular tests based on environment variables. These have saved QA a lot of time when setting up our back-end automation."

"Tests are per-step configurable with script capabilities and support for token-based authentication using variables. Configurable test frequency and integration with both Slack and PagerDuty for alerting our DevOps team are also important. General use of the dashboard by multiple team members is also valuable."

"When it's a problem on our side, the server is down, or there is a lack of memory, the first thing to break is the API, because the calls can't be processed. So we know exactly at that moment because we receive notifications, and we can take action. It doesn't only notify us of the type problem, but it also links it to our servers."

"The schedule is definitely the most valuable. Also, being able to check the JSON attribute values is helpful. We always check the attributes. Finally, the notifications are helpful as well."

"We love the fact that we can have our API tests run on a schedule as often as we need. We also take advantage of being able to set up different environment settings so that we can use the same test in our production, integration, and QA environments, easily. The ability to string together a number of API tests for a test suite is very important to us as well."

"As we have the APIs scheduled, we use the notifications. We know the exact moment it is breaking something that might impact the customer system, that might result in a feature not working. We know "in advance" and we can fix it before the customer notices. It helps us to be more proactive."

"This solution has improved our responsiveness to issues in both production and non-production environments."

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Cons

"In terms of support, it is all based on the cost of the subscription that our company purchased, but it wasn't great, and it could've been much better."

"AlertSite requires improvements related to security, even at the enterprise level."

"Additionally, support from AlertSite is not at an enterprise level since it is not offered 24/7."

"I would like the ability to get more data points with regard to some of the unique requirements that we have."

"What needs improvement in AlertSite is the documentation, particularly the lack of documentation."

"I could use a few changes to the user interface."

"What needs improvement in AlertSite is the documentation, particularly the lack of documentation. If there's a specific activity you want to do, you can't even find information on how to do it, so you have to contact the AlertSite support team to assist you, and only then would the issue be resolved. At the moment, it's not easy to find or get full documentation on how to deal with different issues. You always have to go back to AlertSite support and get help. The documentation for AlertSite could be improved and it's what I'd like to see in the next release of the tool because at the moment, the documentation isn't complete, so you'll have to contact support, but contacting support isn't an issue because the team responds to you quickly."

"The user interface and configuration experience could be more modern and streamlined in some areas, especially when managing a large number of monitors or creating complex monitoring workflows."

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"There have been some Runscope outages in the last year. Though not many, Runscope availability is of critical importance in our production context."

"We would like to be able to select the actual time a test will run automatically. It appears that you can set up the automatic schedule, but the test runs based on the last time it ran and not a time you select. Since we want these tests to run in the middle of the night, it would be nice to be able to select that."

"Overall, the user interface (UI) requires a lot of clicking around."

"We would like the ability to configure Runscope behavior when a given test has its schedule modified. That is, in a non-production environment, we often need to pause a test (either by removing it from the schedule or adjusting its frequency) and this results in the automatic kick-off of this test in all other environments. We would like the ability to simply pause a test for a specific shared environment without causing additional tests to be started."

"It would be nice to be able to generate API documentation."

"I would like to see easier integration and display of test results so that the data could be shared via a dashboard within our company. (Some integration is possible, provided you use one of the supported platforms)."

"There are not many options for scalability."

"I've noticed, once or twice, when there were some updates pushed by Runscope, at times it didn't refresh the pages. I was running it, there were multiple tests running at the same time, and it didn't update the webpage I was looking at. So I had to refresh it manually. Occasionally, it still happens."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"My company pays to use AlertSite, but I'm unsure of the exact costs because it depends on how many monitors you have."

"We purchased the license once and had the option of selecting the number of user licenses."

"The cost is high."

"Pricing is fair."

"The price for the product is very reasonable for a team of more than four to five members."

"Runscope pricing is unbeatable"

"Having the different plans organized by team size, buckets, and requests per billing period works for our needs. Larger companies may need to take a close look at these elements."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

23%

Comms Service Provider

13%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Educational Organization

Construction Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Outsourcing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlertSite?

The experience with the pricing and licensing of AlertSite was generally reasonable for an enterprise monitoring solution, especially considering the value it provides for proactive monitoring and ...

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AlertSite is primarily used for applications and website monitoring to ensure uptime and performance availability for customer-facing services and APIs. The main use cases include monitoring web ap...

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Overview

AlertSite offers efficient transaction monitoring with easy script creation through DejaClick Recorder. It supports multi-factor authentication, ensuring security. Analytical capabilities and rapid alerts enhance response times, making it ideal for enterprise-level monitoring.

AlertSite prioritizes transaction-based monitoring with DejaClick Recorder, allowing users to create scripts without coding. Its user-friendly dashboard and fast error notifications support time-sensitive issue resolution. Location features and data monitoring history are beneficial for tracking and analysis. While AlertSite excels in ease of use and speed, improvements are needed in support, generative AI, and documentation. Security weaknesses and slow UI issues are noted, requiring attention.

What are the key features of AlertSite?

Script Creation: DejaClick Recorder enables simple script creation without coding.
Security: Supports multi-factor authentication and OTP delivery.
Analytics: User-friendly dashboard for data analysis.
Alerts: Immediate notifications trigger under a minute.
Location Tracking: Comprehensive monitoring history and geographical data.

What benefits or ROI can users expect from using AlertSite?

Quick Response: Fast alerts improve time-sensitive resolution.
Cost Efficiency: Rapid issue resolution reduces downtime costs.
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies data analysis and monitoring.
Scalability: Ideal for enterprise-level operations and cloud application monitoring.

Organizations implement AlertSite primarily for monitoring complex transactions, application performance, and server reliability. Its deployment on on-premises servers gives enhanced control, while features like DejaClick assist in monitoring cloud applications, user logins, and system uptime across sectors such as retail kiosks and IT infrastructure.

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Sample Customers

JetBlue, Payless ShoeSource, Hilton Inc., StubHub, Symantec, Newegg, Sapient, AstraZeneca, Dell, Quest Diagnostics

Twilio, Microsoft, Adobe, Okta, Tesco, Charter Communications

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