Oh Dear review
Broad site-health checks and alerts, with a two-site limit on the entry plan.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Oh Dear brings uptime and site-health checks together for developers, agencies, SaaS teams, and sysadmins. It monitors websites and servers, checking availability, performance, page content, SSL certificates, broken links, DNS, domains, scheduled tasks, ping, and TCP ports. Minute-by-minute checks and secondary-location verification are useful for distinguishing a confirmed outage from a transient failure. The mix makes it relevant to teams that want operational monitoring alongside website-content checks, rather than uptime alerts alone.
The monitoring scope is its clearest strength for agencies managing client sites: broken-link and mixed-content crawling sit alongside SSL/TLS certificate expiry and chain health, response-content and keyword verification, and infrastructure checks. Status pages and monthly reports provide ways to communicate service health, while the REST API supports monitor and status-page configuration. Notifications can go to tools including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Telegram, Opsgenie, PagerDuty, or webhooks. This combination suits teams that need multiple alert routes and site-health visibility; buyers seeking only a basic availability ping may not need the wider feature set.
According to the vendor's pricing page, plans are monthly and start with Solo at €15 for up to 2 sites and servers. Solo Plus costs €29 for up to 5, Freelance €49 for up to 10, Studio €99 for up to 25, Agency €149 for up to 50, Agency Plus €199 for up to 75, Portfolio €249 for up to 100, and Portfolio Plus €329 for up to 150. A 10-day free trial is offered, but there is no permanent free plan; the displayed prices exclude VAT. The small Solo allowance makes this a less natural fit for a single operator with many properties, while agencies can choose higher limits as their monitored portfolio grows.
Oh Dear pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Checks uptime every minute and verifies failures from a secondary location
- Crawls for broken links and mixed content alongside SSL, DNS, and task checks
- Sends alerts to team chat, incident tools, and webhooks
- Where it doesn't
- Solo covers only up to 2 sites and servers
- There is no permanent free plan
- Costs rise with capacity, reaching €329/month for up to 150 sites and servers
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