Dynatrace vs UptimeRobot

From $0.04 per hour per 8 GiB host (full-stack, indicative)

From $7 per month (indicative, Solo)

Consumption-based pricing across hosts, synthetic requests, RUM sessions and log volume. Enterprise contracts are large.

One of the best free tiers in infrastructure tooling; paid plans are still inexpensive.

15-day trial.

50 monitors at 5-minute intervals, free forever.

Widely used

Dynatrace · since 2005

Widely used

UptimeRobot · since 2010

• Automatic discovery and dependency mapping removes most manual instrumentation work.
• Davis root-cause analysis genuinely reduces alert noise in complex estates.
• Covers mainframe and SAP alongside cloud-native workloads.

• Free tier covers what most small projects actually need.
• Five-minute setup with no configuration to learn.
• Status pages included even on lower tiers.

• Expensive, with consumption pricing that is hard to forecast.
• Heavy platform aimed at organisations with a dedicated operations function.
• Overkill for a straightforward web application.

• No browser-based transaction monitoring — availability only.
• Basic alerting logic; expect some noise from transient failures.
• Limited reporting and no observability integration.

Large enterprises with complex hybrid estates and a dedicated SRE or operations team.

Side projects, small businesses and anyone who currently has no monitoring at all.