Uptrends review
Broad synthetic monitoring with browser and transaction checks, starting at $42/month billed annually.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Uptrends is a cloud-based monitoring platform for websites, web applications, APIs, and servers. It is aimed at teams that need synthetic checks across public services as well as internal services, with browser, transaction, API, SSL, DNS, and network monitoring. Global checkpoints provide geographic coverage, while private checkpoints are available for internal monitoring. Teams that only need basic availability checks may find its broader monitoring scope and paid entry plan more than they need.
According to the vendor's pricing page, Core costs $42 per month with annual billing or $46 per month with monthly billing. Core includes 10 users, uptime checks every two minutes, multiple checkpoint regions, 10 public status pages, email alerts, and 240 SMS credits. Pro is $60 per month annually or $66 monthly, and adds 25 users, 230+ checkpoints, one-minute uptime checks, browser and API monitoring, unlimited public status pages, and 600 SMS credits. Enterprise lists unlimited users, 30-second uptime checks, private checkpoints, OpenTelemetry, Terraform monitoring as code, and SSO and SCIM. A 30-day trial is available, but there is no free plan.
The monitoring breadth is the main reason to consider Uptrends: browser checks include waterfall charts and filmstrips, transaction monitoring covers multi-step flows, and API checks support chained requests and assertions. Server and network checks use protocols including Ping, Connect, HTTP, DNS, and SQL. Alerting can be escalation-based, with maintenance windows, and notifications can flow through email, SMS, phone, mobile push, integrations, and webhooks. Integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Microsoft Teams, Opsgenie, Statuspage, and the Uptrends API. Choose it when synthetic and browser coverage across varied services matters; teams seeking a free option or only simple uptime checks should compare narrower alternatives.
Uptrends pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Monitors uptime, browser flows, multi-step transactions, APIs, servers, and networks
- Pro adds one-minute checks and browser and API monitoring
- Global and private checkpoints support external and internal monitoring
- Where it doesn't
- No free plan; Core starts at $42/month with annual billing
- Core checks uptime every two minutes
- Private checkpoints and SSO and SCIM are Enterprise features
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