Datadog Uptime Monitoring Alternative for Datadog Uptime Checks and Synthetics at a Flat Price

Yes. Datadog does uptime monitoring through Synthetic Monitoring: an HTTP API test requests a URL on a schedule from one or more managed or private locations and alerts when an assertion fails. Datadog's pricing FAQ says each hit on your endpoint counts as one test run, and gives the example that a test run from 3 locations every minute counts as 180 test runs an hour.

So Datadog uptime works well, and it is billed like a utility. The list price for API tests is $5 per 10,000 runs on annual billing, $6 month to month and $7.20 on demand. Browser tests are priced separately at $12, $15 and $18 per 1,000 runs. The full arithmetic at 5 to 650 URLs, including retries and multistep tests, is in our Datadog Synthetics pricing breakdown.

At list price, 25 URLs checked every minute from a single location cost about $540 a month on annual billing, $648 month to month and $778 on demand. Check them from three locations, which is what most people set up so that one bad region does not page anyone, and the annual figure becomes $1,620 a month. If three people need phone calls through Datadog On-Call, add three seats at $20 each on annual billing.

The same 25 endpoints on TrackDowntime Professional are $99 a month, or $49 a month billed yearly, with calls and SMS to as many numbers as you attach. Past 25, Enterprise covers unlimited endpoints for $299. Datadog customers with large commitments often negotiate below list, so treat these as the ceiling of what you pay, and check your own contract.

Stay on Datadog for any check where the answer is more than up or down. Browser tests that log in and click through a checkout, multistep API tests that pass a token from one call to the next, checks from private locations inside your network, and tests that link a failure to the APM trace that caused it are all things we do not sell. Datadog also checks from many regions, and we check from a single location.

Stay too if you only run two or three URLs. At that size a single location Datadog test at the annual rate costs less than our $99 Professional plan. The case for moving gets strong around five endpoints at one minute, and overwhelming past fifteen, where even our Enterprise plan at $299 with unlimited endpoints is cheaper than Datadog's list price.

Yes, through Datadog On-Call, which is a separate seat based product. Its documentation lists push notifications, email, SMS and phone calls as contact methods, notes that phone support varies by country, and says landlines and VoIP numbers are not supported for SMS. Datadog lists On-Call at $20 per seat a month billed annually, $24 month to month and $29 on demand. Without it, synthetic alerts go out through email, Slack and other integrations.

TrackDowntime takes the simpler path for small teams: no schedules and no seats. Every number on the endpoint gets the call at once, and the calls repeat on a fixed ladder until the site recovers. If you need rotations and escalation tiers, keep Datadog On-Call. If you want the phone to ring for whoever is on the list, see how our downtime alerts by phone call work.

TrackDowntime checks every 60 seconds from one location. We have no browser or multistep tests, no keyword or content assertions, no private locations, no status pages and no APM correlation. Our alerts are phone call, SMS, email, Slack and a signed webhook, and our checks look at status code, response time, timeouts, DNS and SSL expiry.

What you get in exchange is a fixed bill and a pager that reaches everyone. For teams whose Datadog synthetic line is mostly HTTP status checks on homepages, login pages and API base URLs, that is usually the part of the invoice that grows fastest and tells you the least. Move that part, keep Datadog for the tests that need it, and use our downtime tracker for the incident record with start, end and duration.