Every subscription you would cancel, compared
Uptime in one tool, cron in another, analytics somewhere else, and an invoice from each. Pick the one you pay for today and read what a single PostDeploy plan covers instead, figure by figure.
- Uptime checks
- Cron heartbeats
- Error tracking
- Analytics
Four vendors, four invoices
PostDeploy
All four. One login, one plan.
The uptime and cron tools
Checks with a URL, and scheduled jobs that go quiet. Four tools people buy for that, each read against one plan that also carries error tracking and analytics.
The analytics tools
Counting visitors without cookies. Three tools people buy for that, each read against one plan that also watches whether the site is up and whether it is throwing errors.
What the four subscriptions turn into
Start with the bill you already pay
Paying for uptime? Read the uptime and cron comparisons. They put PostDeploy Indie against each tool's entry plan, then show what changes when cron jobs get an allowance of their own instead of eating monitor slots.
Paying for analytics? Read the analytics comparisons. Same cookieless counting and no consent banner, plus the uptime checks, cron heartbeats and error tracking that already sit on the plan.
Paying for both? That is the case PostDeploy was built for. One project record drives all four tools, so you configure a project once and the bill stops moving.
What moving actually costs
Heartbeat URLs are the expensive part. Each one is baked into a crontab, a CI workflow or application code, so switching means editing every place that pings. It is one line per job, and a missed one fails silently.
Uptime checks are retyped once: URL, interval, timeout, expected status, any keyword rule. History stays with the old tool, so run both in parallel for a month if you need continuity of reporting.
Switching questions
Do I have to move everything at once?
No. The trial needs no credit card, so point one monitor and one heartbeat at PostDeploy, leave the old tool running, and move the rest once the alerts arrive the way you want them.
Does PostDeploy import my monitors from another tool?
No. You retype each check once, and each heartbeat gets a new URL in the job that pings it. Most comparison pages list what to read out of the old tool before you start.
What happens after the 30 days?
Without a subscription the organisation becomes read-only: every chart, incident and error stays visible, but writes and ingest stop. Data is kept 30 more days, then purged. Subscribing at any point restores everything, including the 20 uptime monitors and 20 cron jobs you configured on separate allowances.
What does PostDeploy not do?
No on-call rotations, no SMS or voice escalation, and no logs, traces or session replay. Checks run from one region, so there is no multi-region confirmation of a failure.
Ship your next project with one toolkit, not three.
Run both during your free trial, with no credit card, and keep whichever answers first.
Start your 30-day free trial