What is Uptrends?
Uptrends is a digital experience monitoring platform that enables organizations to monitor critical web and API user journeys from over 230 ISP-based locations worldwide. It provides real-world monitoring conditions to detect customer-impacting failures earlier and identify what's actually broken and where.
The platform offers synthetic transaction monitoring, API monitoring, and real user monitoring capabilities. It helps teams ensure global uptime, control web performance, validate web applications, diagnose network issues, and detect front-end and API errors. Uptrends integrates with observability platforms through OpenTelemetry and supports monitoring as code with Terraform for automated management.
Features
- Digital Experience Monitoring: Monitor in real-world conditions from 230+ global checkpoints
- Synthetic Transaction Monitoring: Monitor critical user transactions with multi-step checks
- API Monitoring: Monitor your own and third-party APIs with chained request validation
- Real-World Monitoring: Tests from ISP-based locations rather than cloud-only providers
- Low-Code Setup: Reduce time-to-insight with simplified monitor configuration
- Noise-Free Alerting: Receive relevant notifications without false positives
- OpenTelemetry Integration: Stream synthetic data into observability dashboards
- Terraform Provider: Automate monitor management as code
Use Cases
- Ensure global uptime for websites and applications
- Control and optimize web performance across regions
- Validate complex web applications with multi-step transactions
- Diagnose network issues and ISP-specific problems
- Detect front-end and API errors before user impact
- Monitor MFA and SSO-driven user journeys end-to-end
- Automate monitoring in CI/CD pipelines
- Track SLAs and SLOs for service compliance
FAQs
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What are monitoring credits and how do they work?
Monitoring credits represent your annual monitoring capacity, with each monitor type using a certain number of credits based on complexity and frequency. Credits are included in your plan and can be distributed across different monitor types as needed. -
Can I mix different monitor types with my credits?
Yes, monitoring credits are flexible and not tied to specific monitor types. You can distribute them across uptime, API, browser, and transaction monitoring based on your current priorities and technical needs. -
What happens if I exceed my credit allocation?
If you approach or exceed your credit allocation, you can upgrade your plan, add additional credit bundles, or discuss expansion with your account team. There are no hidden overage charges without agreement. -
Do monitoring credits expire?
Monitoring credits do not expire within your annual term. You can reallocate them at any time as your monitoring needs change, and they reset based on your renewed plan agreement at the end of your contract year. -
How does Uptrends compare to other monitoring vendors?
Unlike vendors with variable usage-based pricing, Uptrends provides predictable pricing with flexible credit allocation. This avoids unpredictable cost increases as you scale and gives you cost certainty throughout the year.
