Pingdom alternative
A Pingdom alternative that also knows what broke inside the app.
Pingdom, part of SolarWinds, focuses on synthetic monitoring and real user monitoring for websites. nopanic focuses on Laravel apps and connects uptime with exceptions, scheduled tasks, SSL, security and client status pages.
Why teams look for an alternative to Pingdom
- A failed check tells you the page is slow or down, but not which exception caused it.
- Scheduled tasks and background jobs are invisible to page checks.
- Pricing scales with check and pageview volume, which is hard to map onto client contracts.
nopanic and Pingdom side by side
| Topic | nopanic | Pingdom |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Laravel apps run by agencies, organised per client | Synthetic and real user monitoring for websites |
| Error tracking | Yes, through the nopanic/laravel package | Not a listed feature |
| Uptime checks | Yes, every 60 seconds | Yes, with transaction and page speed checks |
| Scheduled task monitoring | Yes, Laravel scheduler sync and ping urls | Not a listed feature |
| SSL certificate monitoring | Yes, checked every hour | Not a listed feature |
| Status pages | Yes, on your client's own domain | Yes, public status pages and reports |
| Code security | Yes, code and dependency scanning | Not a listed feature |
| Data location | EU only, by Pixels Nederland B.V. (ISO 27001) | Not specified on the pricing page |
| Pricing model | By number of sites, every module included | By number of checks, SMS and pageviews |
Based on public information from Pingdom, checked in November 2026. Pingdom is a trademark of its owner. Spotted something outdated? Let us know and we will correct it.
Choose nopanic when
- Your client sites run on Laravel and you want the cause of an outage, not only the symptom.
- You want scheduled tasks, SSL and security in the same tool.
- You want EU-only processing by a Dutch company.
Choose Pingdom when
- You need multi-step transaction checks or page speed tracking.
- You want real user monitoring with pageview data.
- You already use other SolarWinds products.
Switching from Pingdom
Add your sites to nopanic, install the Laravel package for errors and scheduled tasks, and run both side by side for a week before you switch off Pingdom checks.
Frequently asked questions
Does nopanic do transaction monitoring?
Not yet. nopanic checks if a url responds correctly. For multi-step browser flows, Pingdom or a similar tool is the better fit.
Does nopanic offer real user monitoring?
No. nopanic focuses on uptime, errors, scheduled tasks and security.
All of this for every client site, in one place.
Monitoring, errors, debugging and security for every Laravel app you run. Hosted and processed in the EU.
