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In their own words

What customers say about Oh Dear.

Reviews and quotes from developers, agencies and SaaS teams who run Oh Dear on their own sites and their clients' sites.

Oh Dear monitors the health of our website and notifies us when it goes down, then comes back up.

We learned that my site goes down much more often than we thought, but never for more than a few minutes at a time. The notification email has an option to snooze, when there are too many events. We like the friendly tone of the messages as well. Setting things up was trivial, and we haven't had to do anything else to keep it going.

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No more worrying if a website is down, simple as that.
David Foster, CEO, TypedCMS

From a review on G2, rated 10/10.

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I love having all my site management in one place with a sleek interface.

We love having all our site management in one place with a sleek interface. We hoped there were some more API integrations for new features, but they are getting added fairly quickly by the developers.

Owen Voke, Engineer, Worksome

“I think this is the first Spark application in the wild that I have joined as a paying customer. Pretty neat. 👏”

Image Taylor Otwell Creator of Laravel

“Oh Dear Is the bomb, awesome simple UI, easy to setup & maintain.”

Image Lee Stables Laravel Developer

Started using 2 years ago as a simple monitoring tools. Has become a daily must-have for uptime, performance and page speed metrics audit.

We sarted using Oh Dear about two-and-a-half years ago as a simple monitoring tool. Over time it has become a daily must-have for uptime, performance and page speed metrics audits. It's simple, fast, efficient and not expensive. The kind of tool we like. Great value.

Image Nicolas Lefèvre Technical Consultant, WIDE Switzerland

Oh Dear makes monitoring a breeze.

Great UI, makes monitoring a web app a breeze, especially if you're working with Laravel. We really have nothing to complain about, at all.

Image Oliver Smith-Aichbichler CEO, AlbaJet

Solid monitoring tool, great addition to Laravel!

We really like the out-of-the-box integration in Laravel, quick support answers and bugfixes. Sadly though there's no free plan or like an entry cost prices for non-commercial projects with less than 5 sites for example.

Image Clemens Bastian Principal Architect, IntelliShop AG

“I just entered my domain and Oh Dear took care of the rest. I was pleasantly surprised to see changes in my SSL cert chain and mixed content reports.”

Image Paul Redmond Contributor at Laravel News

Decent monitoring service!

Lots of features, decent price and value. It has useful features like cron job monitoring. Seems like a simple enough service that it could be even cheaper!

Image Albert Cui Technical Lead, Teachiq

“If you haven’t tried Oh Dear, you should get started! Lovely UI, simple setup and crazy useful.”

Image Lasse Rafn Laravel and Vue developer

“I literally sleep better knowing I have OhDear monitoring everything for me. It's saved me multiple times.”

Image Alex Garrett-Smith Founder of codecourse.com

“Oh Dear provides so much more confidence than just status checks - knowing my site is up, responding quickly and having no broken links.”

Image Dwight Conrad Watson CEO of roommates.com

“First I was skeptical if I need a service like Oh Dear, but after Laravel Core Adventures went down Oh Dear saved my day. Simple, beautiful and just works.”

Image Christoph Rumpel Creator of Laravel Core Adventures

Oh Dear is easy to set up and dependable and at a good price point.

Simple to use and dependable. We like the fact that several domains are included in the price. No real cons. It could be good if it also could simulate form submission.

Image Nick Brandt Co-founder, Thankz

“It took me 5 minutes to setup a status page for @FilmmusicDB and it just works. See for yourself: https://status.fmdb.net”

Image Marcus Stöhr Senior software developer

Full-featured site monitoring for a reasonable price.

Excellent, thoughtfully designed product created by a great team! Oh Dear has an awesome UI, and they have continued to add more and more features over the years. One remark, their crawler does not parse JavaScript, which means that one of my sites can't be crawled by Oh Dear. Oh Dear had way more features and a far superior UI than alternatives.

Image Kevin Markam Founder, Data School

Great product, a must-have to monitor your sites and web apps.

Easy interface, intuitive and quick suppoort answers. We really love the product so we cannot think anything that we do not like at the moment.

Image Davide Perfetto CTO, Evolution Group

It really is an all-in-one monitoring tool.

Oh Dear combines many monitoring features into one tool. It even allows us to track custom metrics via custom Health Checks. It would be cool though to see snoozed notifications on the dashboard so that you do not forget to "unsnooze" them after fixing the issue.

Nils Walter Lüpke Co-founder, Biotaktix

“Easy setup, great pricing, need-to-know notifications and stellar support! Oh Dear is exactly what was missing in my monitoring tool chain!”

Michelangelo van Dam Co-organiser of the PHP Benelux Conference

“DevOps is already a full-time job, and having Oh Dear monitor SSL is just one less thing to worry about. It's fast, detailed and easy to use.”

Image Neo Ighodaro CTO at Hotels.ng and organiser of Laravel Nigeria

Excellent website monitoring tool.

Excellent for website monitoring, though not as easy to use for web apps with multiple services, domains, daemons, etc. Our apps have many modules on multiple domains. This forces us to use the "pro" subscription which is not that bad, but the tracking of multiple services, daemons, schedules, on different servers behind load balancing is not easy, but we realize this is a tough requirement.

Image Dave Latshaw II CEO, Biophy

Oh Dear is a must-have for all web devs.

Oh Dear helps us sleep at night, knowing there's a watchful eye on all of our web apps. Our clients love it, too—they see lots of added value in the many tools that Oh Dear has to offer, even if they're not working with it directly. Super-responsive and friendly support team, they're constantly adding new features and functionality, while improving what's already there. No notes.

Image Casey Dwyer Founder, CuBit Creative

The best site monitoring tool I ever used!

Oh Dear is one of those set-and-forget tools that you configure once, and then you hope to not be notified by them. Super reliable, love all those various checks that I can set up for my domains. It's not only site-is-down monitor, it's also cron, sitemaps, performance, lighthouse reports, status pages, etc.

Image Slava Abakumov Product Lead, Awesome Motive Inc.

Perfect for 90% of monitoring needs.

Generally excellent. Well-made, highly reliable and well-priced for the feature set it comes with. It's easy for my team to get going with as well as it's nicely designed and they've gone with a small, curated set of features (rather than chucking everything in).

Image Harrison Brown CTO, Suru Partners

“Oh Dear looks really good, it's fast, and it found some mixed content I had. 👌💯”

Image Nicolas Widart Creator of Asgard CMS

Oh Dear is user-friendly, easy to set up and onboard users, and is accessible to non-techies.

It's the perfect bridge app between our platform devs and other team members that might not have the same access to troubleshoot or might be slightly less technical and need an easy tool to show where any issues might be. We use it during deployments to monitor the change in performance and analyse any trends in performance lag.

Image Matt Puttick Product Owner, CityFibre

Does one thing, and does it really well.

Oh Dear is straight to the point and does extremely well what it is designed to do. Oh Dear covers both our public-facing pages (app, documentation, landing page), as well as our internal platform (backend services). It provides our status page, and notifies us of alerts directly on our team chat.

Image Arnaud Porterie Founder, Echoes HQ

We’ve been using Oh Dear for a few years now and it has helped us get ahead of outages instead of hearing about it from customers.

This has allowed us to let customers know we are on it before they can tell us. Monitoring sites helps us be proactive instead of waiting for support tickets to come in. We also monitor scheduled jobs and use the Slack integration to get notified when they are missed.

Image Brandon Tanaka Director of Engineering, Integrated Rental Systems

“Oh Dear gives our platform team one clear view of uptime, certificates and broken links across all public Blockstream sites, so we find problems before our users do.”

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“With Oh Dear we replaced multiple tools, gained features and a much better UX. Love the product and the team behind it.”

Image Franco Gilio CTO at Publica
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Never came across a monitoring tool as complete and easy to setup, it’s great and me and my team love it

Franco Gilio, CTO
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I was looking for a replacement for Pingdom because it is no longer value for money. It was a no-brainer to switch. You get way more features and the best user experience.

Lester Chan, Full Stack Engineer

Oh Dear keeps you calm and alerts you instantly!

The extensive checks suite makes it the central place for monitoring our applications. The dasshboard is slow sometimes when searching for a website or performing an action; it's not always clear that the website is in a 'loading' state. On the flip side, Oh Dear has many more checks available, with a more modern look.

Image Mark de Vries CTO, Lama Lama

It was really easy to set up, we really like it!

All our services are registered in Oh Dear and what we did is install a lot of notification channels. So if there is anything interesting, we are getting notified. Also, cron jobs are really important for us and Oh Dear gives us a really flexible way of setting up and monitoring all jobs execution. UI is really good. Public monitoring page is available, although we are not using it but is perfect.

Image Nemanja Nikolic CEO, GoldBear Technologies

“Oh Dear enables me to sleep well at night. A simple “does what it says on the tin” services with huge power and extensive features.”

Image James Mills Maintainer of Treeware

It's always the first tool that notifies me when something goes wrong.

Oh Dear helps us make sure that all our important websites are live, and that we have a way to communicate issues using the the status pages. The dead link monitoring feature is also extremely handy. It also provides us with feedback like when our websites load faster, which can also indicate that something is wrong, ironically.

Image Kevin Petit Engineer, Klarrio

Brilliant site and error monitoring.

We love being able to add a URL and have it instantly pull through uptime, performance, certificate checks etc. The integration into Laravel is great and the health monitoring, too. I don't use the status pages much, but I like knowing it's there for if a client asks. The downtime alerts have become invaluable, alerting me to an issue before a client spots it.

Image Steve Edson Director, Spacestar Digital
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I was looking for a high-performing, reliable and well-designed solution for uptime monitoring and finally found #OhDear - I couldn't be happier 🤩.

Florian, Creator of getaawp.com

Oh Dear makes monitoring your sites a breeze.

We used to have a single contact for issues on the websites we manage. Now we have multiple ways and people to monitor site health thanks to Oh Dear. Email alerts and status dashboards give great visibility on site health. We were also really pleased that Oh Dear integrated ways to monitor cronjobs and scheduled tasks.

Image Tom Moore Director of Development, PressEngine

Painless feature-rich website monitoring

Oh Dear is not just a simple uptime monitoring tool. It is able to detect a multitude of proeblems with websites. As an agency, we love using Oh Dear to keep an eye on our customers websites and frequently look into Oh Dears reports. It is easy to integrate Oh Dear in our monitoring and notification infrastructure so we don't miss any issue.

Image Alexander Jank Co-owner, Nuonic

Oh Dear does what it needs to do in a user-friendly way.

We run a SaaS product so it's super important that we're aware immediately if the app or marketing website are down, or performance has suddenly changed. Oh Dear keeps on top of that as well as things like SSL certificates... All in all it just gives us peace of mind that things are running smoothly.

Image Mark Coenradie Co-founder, Webenable

“I signed up for Oh Dear for the broken link checker, which gives me peace of mind when I release new updates. Top notch product 👌.”

Image Tony Lea Creator of devdojo.com

“Besides being a joy to look at, Oh Dear makes monitoring websites and SSL certificates an absolute breeze.”

Image Dries Vints Maintainer of Laravel.io

It's been great—I use it across multiple teams and works amazingly.

Oh Dear offers us a simple reporting tool that has all the metrics we could ever need. It's a solid product that just keeps getting better over time.

Image Ryan Scherler Developer, East Slope

Great tool, recommended!

Very clean, good design. Very good features. There really is nothing that we don't like about Oh Dear. It's one of those set-and-forget tools that you configure once, and then you hope to not be notified by them. Super reliable, love all those various checks that I can set up for our domains.

Image Peter Dyllick-Brenzinger Head of Product, Purple

Very good and easy tool, great Laravel integration.

Very good integration with Laravel, fair pricing, good features. I really like how they keep pushing the product. The integration was easy and well-documented.

Image Heiko Krebs CEO, Joblicant

Really good monitoring tool!

Going to have to persuade the boss if we can extend our package as there are now more than 10 sites we would like to add. Really simple to use, able to configure alerts where you want them, great stuff.

Image Fred Bradley Developer, Cranleigh School

Highly recommended tool for site owners.

Nothing but positive. We've been using it for years and it has never let us down. It's straightforward to set up and gives us tons of useful info. Just the fact that it lets us know if any of our sites have a problem before my client even knows about it!

Image Jim Peters Co-founder, Pavin' The Way
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Oh Dear provides us with real-time notifications about platform-wide issues ahead customer support reporting. We can confidently tell our customers “we’re on it”

Sander de Vos, Laravel developer

A delight, we we're able to 'up' our service to our clients by using Oh Dear!

Easy to use, very helpful. Made monitoring our projects much easier. Nothing negative to note here, it does what we need it to do. It has been a delight, we we're able to 'up' our service to our clients by using Oh Dear!

Image Nick van Kaam Developer, Springbok

Simple, reliable and affordable website monitoring.

It is very easy to setup and integrate while being flexible enough to handle different cases. Also since it covers everything from websites to APIs, from SSL certificates to response times to first load etc. it is a single solution that covers all of our external monitoring needs. Just great value for the money.

Image Lukas Kahwe Smith CTO, Witty Works
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From my first contact with Oh Dear, I’ve been blown away by the quality not only of the application, and scope of the entire tool, but also the support, branding and attention to detail.

Richard Underwood, Owner at The Little Web Studio

It’s a truly great tool that I constant recommend. We migrated from a competitor and would do it again any time.

It has an impressive variety of checks, ensuring you really are monitoring every little detail. On top of that you can implement custom checks. It also has great alerting settings with account and site granularity and fallbacks. You can even snooze alerts. The product is constantly evolving and improving. It occasionally takes a while to load, maybe related to the amount of sites we have.

Image Franco Gilio Co-founder, publica.la

“Oh Dear really helps me to focus on developing PHPMap! I don’t need to check my site manually. Oh Dear does it for me. ❤️”

Image Florian Wartner Creator of PHPMap.co

Oh Dear fairly and confidently monitors all our critical systems.

Easy to use. There are no too fancy features but the base ones are perfectly covered. One of the most usefull feature for us is the application health monitoring, as we developped and used in all our project an open source Java library to expose different health keys to Oh Dear. Also we can get clean public monitoring page, available to our customers.

Image Jonathan Lanoy CEO, Zileo

Worth every penny.

The best. Never had any issues with Oh Dear, and will continue to use them for a long time. Pricing for the sheer amount of features you get is very good. No mobile version of the dashboard is a minor flaw for us, but willing to look past it considering the use case. Reliability and broken link checking bundled into one product.

Image Matt Robitaille Director of Development, Anchour

“Oh Dear allows us to always stay a step ahead of our customers regarding the performance and uptime of the website we develop. This builds trust that their application is in save hands with us.”

Image Niels Van Renselaar Co-Founder Underdock
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Oh Dear detected an issue that our other uptime monitor did not!

Casey Sprague, Chief Technology Officer at thera-LINK

Positive and easy to use, good interface and easy to integrate with other tools.

Oh Dear simply works as it should and we have not had any issues. Great interface and just works. The notifications work as expected. W've been very positive of Oh Dear and its ease of use.

Image Rik Konings Founder, Kings Digital

Very well-suited for developers, agencies, and businesses that prioritize performance and security.

Oh Dear is an excellent platform for website and server monitoring, and there are several standout aspect like comprehensive monitoring features, proactive alerts through email, Slack etc. It's very developer-friendly, plenty of customization is available and there's enough transparency as well. Unlike some competitors, however, Oh Dear does not offer a free tier for users who want basic monitoring.

Image Sagar Nakul Associate Director, Ascendion

Great tool for tracking your site health!

It's a great tool for keeping track of our sites and services health plus a bunch of other more in depth tests than they can run, like domain certificates. I think compared to other services pricing could be a little better, specifically when you are working with microservices or load balancing, so we need to track multiple endpoints or servers for the same site.

Image Marco Rivadeneyra CTO, Binnacle

“I'm extremely impressed with the entire project. Really in-depth monitoring and dead simple functionality with a beautiful user interface. 11/10”

Image TJ Miller Rockstar & Friend of the Laravel community

Easy to use, all-you-need solution for website monitoring.

It's simple to use, but has all the features you need to monitor websites, all wrapped up in an easy-to-use and beautiful interface. We just wish there was a mobile view of the management dashboard available.

Image Markus Denhoff CEO, Reinorange

“Oh Dear is a really nice monitoring tool! Just subscribed directly after the beta invite.”

Image Lukas Kämmerling First ever Oh Dear Customer

“With Oh Dear we now have a lightweight monitoring service taking up the slack. We’re loving it, especially when it tells us everything’s healthy ✅!”

Image Armin Ulrich Creator of MadeWithVueJs

Highly recommend for monitoring sites.

Love the product! We use it to monitor our clients' sites with which we have a maintenance agreement. Great uptime monitoring and other useful checks for monitoring our clients' sites and really nice UI! The only downside I can think of is the price is higher than similar services, but that hasn't been a prohibitor for us.

Image Simon Drijver Developer, Enrise

Oh Dear is our all-in-one website monitoring toolbox.

The pricing is fair, the UX is good, it is easy to integrate yet has a great number of features. We're using it every day. It is trivial to implement, and the customer support is decent. We are using it for most of the purposes offered by the toolset. Dead link checks, uptime checks, cron checks, and Core Web Vitals and SEO monitoring.

Image Daniel van Dorp CTO, SamMobile

“Oh Dear gives me confidence that all my sites and scheduled tasks are running. I use it on all my Laravel projects!”

Image Ash Allen Laravel developer

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