Site24x7 is a tool to monitor the performance and availability of your company's online services. While site change monitoring software is often used to alert you to mentions of your online business or changes to competing sites, Site24x7 is more widely used to monitor your sites, cloud services, servers, databases, etc. data, data, networks and applications. In our Site24x7 review, we take a look at what makes the service different so you can decide if it's a useful tool for your business.
Site24x7 offers too many cost plans, making purchase resolutions unnecessarily complex (Image credit: Zoho)
Packages and prices
Site24x7 offers at least thirteen different payment plans and seventeen optional add-ons. You can pay monthly or annually, with an annual payment receiving a ten% discount. There is a forever free plan that includes basic tracking of up to 5 URLs or servers. Site monitoring starts at €24 / month for ten sites / servers with a one minute polling frequency. You can monitor your sites from more than one hundred and ten locations. For that price you also get an "advanced" monitor. Examples of advanced monitors are multi-step web transactions, mail delivery monitoring, and web speed checks. Infrastructure monitoring starts at €7 / month for ten sites / servers / cloud applications. Infrastructure Monitoring offers over sixty performance metrics on your servers and supports everything from Windows, Linux, Hyper-V, and VMWare to Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Alternatively, Site3x24 offers Application Performance Monitoring (APM), starting at €7/mo for 1 apps and forty cloud sites/servers/apps. You can monitor your Java, RoR, PHP, .NET, and Node.js applications and get performance metrics on performance, response times, and failures. All-in-one plans are available for €XNUMX to €XNUMX/month. These include a mix of site, network, infrastructure, and application monitoring features. Navigate through the complex cost structure and you will find that SiteXNUMXxXNUMX offers great prices. On average, you're looking for close to €XNUMX/server/month.
Features
Like other Zoho products, Site24x7's design philosophy is to give you everything but the kitchen sink, all in one umbrella product. It is a Swiss army knife for monitoring your sites, infrastructure and applications.
Site monitoring is just one of the hundreds upon hundreds of monitors you can set up in Site24x7 (Image credit: Zoho) Site Monitoring With Site24x7 site monitoring, you can continually review the performance of your services. It can be used to monitor your site uptime and page speed and alert you when your sites are not free. You can examine the speed of the web and the specific identity assets that might be slowing things down.
Setting up true user monitoring involves adding JavaScript to the header of the pages you want to monitor (Image credit: Zoho) User Experience Monitoring By adding code to your websites, you can proactively test response time and the functionality of the entire user journey. Site24x7 offers both synthetic monitoring and real user experience monitoring, so you can simulate common navigation paths (for example, from connecting to the payment gateway) or monitor performance data so that users can Real users find the bottlenecks.
Site24x7 supports virtually all major servers, cloud infrastructures, and applications in use today (Image credit: Zoho) Server Monitoring With Server Monitoring, you can see how your servers are performing at all times with up to XNUMX metrics. There are also over a hundred plugins so you can monitor software like Apache and MySQL, and both Windows and Linux servers are supported. You can even set up an automation that responds to alarms by taking action. For example, if a server's memory usage reaches XNUMX%, send an alarm text message, run some server scripts, and reboot the server.
Site24x7 Context Help is useful when setting up your monitors for the first time (Image credit: Zoho)
Interface and in use
The configuration and administration of your Site24x7 monitors is done through the web interface. It's a schematic interface with long forms for each monitor genre, and the sheer number of options can be intimidating to new users. Site24x7 is aimed squarely at DevOps managers who need little to get started. That being said, each page has context-sensitive help that describes what each of the configuration options does.
Site24x7 frequently hosts free multi-day training seminars (Image credit: Zoho)
Support
Aside from the contextual help described above, Site24x7 has multiple resources for learning how to use the tool to your advantage. There is a weblog, community, help documentation, API, white papers, and webinars. Site24x7 often offers free 5 day courses and there is even a certification program. User support is available via email, phone (US, UK, Australia and the Netherlands) and live chat. We receive prompt and friendly responses whenever we use live chat support.
Competition
Site24x7 focuses on monitoring your sites and services. It cannot be used to monitor the website as a whole. For this, we advise Visualping. Visualping's paid plans start at $24/month and let you monitor a website for mentions of your brand, check for changes on competitor sites, and track your web search engine rankings, along with many other use cases. . If you are looking for an alternative option to Site7x24 to monitor your sites, Pingdom is a good option at a similar cost. Site7xXNUMX is more flexible and offers more features, but we prefer the Pingdom interface and it has better integration with third-party web applications.
Final verdict
Site24x7 is easily one of the best options for monitoring your sites and infrastructure. We've only scratched the surface here discussing the different monitors you can set up, and the prices are great, especially as the number of services you need to check increases. If you need site change monitoring software for competitor research or reputation management, look elsewhere as Site24x7 is only for monitoring your services. It's also a bit heavy for small businesses just looking to monitor one or two sites or servers. But for monitoring a site, server, and application business, Site2x24 may be the best free option today.