Dotcom-Monitor

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Introduction

Dotcom-Monitor is a website, web application and API monitoring service. Its homepage describes real-browser checks from 30+ locations worldwide, instant alerts and a 30-day free trial, and covers uptime, performance, web applications (multi-step user journeys such as logins and carts), APIs, SSL certificates and DNS.

Products are organised by platform: ServerView for internet infrastructure checks (DNS, ports, SSL, ICMP, FTP, SIP and more), BrowserView for real-browser web page monitoring with scheduled Lighthouse audits, UserView for multi-step transactions scripted with its EveryStep recorder, WebView for APIs (REST, SOAP, GraphQL, with Postman and Insomnia support) and MetricsView for performance counters. The company also offers load testing products.

In the quality loop Dotcom-Monitor sits in production monitoring, with synthetic transaction checks acting as continuous tests of critical journeys.

Features

1. Real-browser monitoring: Check pages in real browsers from 30+ locations.
2. Transaction monitoring: Script multi-step journeys with EveryStep.
3. API monitoring: REST, SOAP and GraphQL checks, including Postman collections.
4. Infrastructure checks: DNS, SSL, ports, ICMP and more.
5. Alerts and reports: Instant alerts and root cause analysis.
6. Integrations: Connect alerts to existing tools.

Pros

1. Free plan: Up to 25 targets with 5-minute checks.
2. Fixed pricing: Plans are priced by targets and frequency, not usage.
3. Broad coverage: Web, app, API and infrastructure in one tool.

Cons

1. Configurator pricing: Costs depend on many options.
2. Dated scripting UX: Recorder-based scripting can be less flexible than code-based tools.

Usage and Links (Example)

Sign up for the free plan or trial, add URLs or APIs, record a multi-step transaction with EveryStep for key journeys, choose locations and frequency, and route alerts to email or chat. When comparing monitoring tools, run the same two or three critical pages or journeys in each trial for a couple of weeks, from the regions where your users are, and compare alert quality, false positives, data retention and the total price at your required check frequency.

Pricing

At the time of review Dotcom-Monitor listed a free plan (up to 25 targets, up to 5-minute checks) and paid subscriptions from $19.99 per month, with starting prices of $19.99 for API monitoring, $29.96 for web pages, $38.95 for web applications and $40 for infrastructure checks, plus custom Enterprise plans and a 30-day free trial. See site.

Recommended for?

• Teams monitoring logins, carts and other critical journeys
• Organisations that want web, API and infrastructure checks from one vendor

Conclusion

Dotcom-Monitor is a broad synthetic monitoring service with a free plan and fixed pricing. It suits teams that want real-browser and transaction checks without building their own monitoring.