Oh Dear

Product Introduction

1. Oh Dear is a comprehensive website monitoring platform designed to track uptime, performance, scheduled tasks, SSL certificates, broken links, DNS changes, domain expiration, and server availability across unlimited websites.
2. The core value of Oh Dear lies in its ability to consolidate multiple critical monitoring functions into a single tool, enabling real-time issue detection, instant notifications, and streamlined incident management for technical and non-technical users.

Main Features

1. Global uptime monitoring utilizes servers worldwide to detect downtime and latency issues, providing geographic-specific performance data and immediate alerts via email, SMS, Slack, or other integrated platforms.
2. Continuous SSL certificate monitoring automatically checks expiration dates, certificate chain validity, and configuration changes, sending actionable alerts to prevent security warnings or service disruptions.
3. Broken page and mixed content detection crawls entire websites to identify HTTP errors (e.g., 404, 500), insecure content loading over HTTPS, and slow-loading resources, with detailed reports and remediation guidance.

Problems Solved

1. Oh Dear eliminates the need for multiple specialized tools by offering unified monitoring for uptime, performance, security, SEO, and infrastructure health, reducing complexity and cost.
2. It serves technical teams (developers, sysadmins), marketers, and business owners who require proactive monitoring of web applications, APIs, domains, and third-party dependencies.
3. Typical use cases include detecting server outages before users notice, preventing domain expiration-related downtime, identifying broken links affecting SEO, and ensuring cron jobs execute as scheduled.

Unique Advantages

1. Unlike niche tools like Uptime Robot or Statuspage.io, Oh Dear combines 15+ monitoring types—including Lighthouse SEO scoring, TCP port checks, and sitemap validation—in one platform.
2. Innovative features like mixed content detection, application health monitoring (disk space, queue status), and scheduled task verification go beyond basic uptime tracking.
3. Competitive pricing ($17/month for 5 sites) undercuts alternatives by 90% when comparing equivalent feature sets, with a 30-day free trial requiring no payment details.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. How many websites can I monitor? Oh Dear supports unlimited websites on all paid plans, with checks distributed across global monitoring nodes for accurate geographic performance data.
2. What notification methods are supported? Alerts are delivered via email, SMS, Slack, Discord, webhooks, Opsgenie, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, and Pushover, with customizable escalation rules.
3. Does the free trial include all features? Yes, the 30-day trial provides full access to uptime, performance, SSL, broken link, and other monitoring features without requiring credit card information.
4. How quickly are issues detected? Most outages are identified within 1 minute through parallel checks from multiple global locations, with detailed root cause analysis in incident reports.
5. Can I create public status pages? Yes, Oh Dear hosts customizable status pages with real-time incident updates, maintenance scheduling, and subscriber notifications to keep users informed during outages.