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Oh Dear

Whole-site health monitoring, not just the homepage

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Oh Dear - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: September 2026

Oh Dear overview

What is Oh Dear?

Oh Dear monitors the health of every website a team manages. Oh Dear checks uptime every minute from multiple locations and monitors SSL certificates, DNS records, domain expiration, scheduled tasks, broken links, mixed content, performance, Lighthouse, APIs, application health, ping, TCP ports, sitemaps, DNS blocklists and exposed ports.

Oh Dear sends alerts through email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie and webhooks. Oh Dear includes branded status pages, client-ready reports, unlimited users and every monitoring feature on every plan. Oh Dear also includes AI-powered checks and SSO.

Mattias Geniar and Freek Van der Herten founded Oh Dear in Belgium in 2018. Oh Dear stores monitoring data in the EU and supports GDPR requirements. Oh Dear offers a 10-day trial with every feature and requires no payment information.

Starting price

15usage based /
per month

Alternatives

with better value for money

Pros & Cons

Website Monitoring

Monitoring Service

Notifications

Pricing

Site Management

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Oh Dear’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

4.9

(74)

Oh Dear review summaries overview

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

1-2(1)

3-4(6)

5(67)

What do users say about Oh Dear?

Reviewers indicate Oh Dear offers comprehensive website monitoring, covering uptime, performance, SSL, DNS, and health checks in a single platform. They value the simplicity, reliability, and user-friendly interface, saying it helps them proactively manage site issues and provides peace of mind for both websites and web apps.

Some feel it lacks certain advanced features, such as multi-step browser tests and JavaScript parsing, which limits its use for complex setups. They mention the absence of a free tier and wish for more flexibility in monitoring options, like adjusting check frequency or monitoring multiple pages per site.

Who uses Oh Dear?

Based on 74 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Enterprises

Top industries

Computer Software

Information Technology and Services

Marketing and Advertising

Internet

Others

Use cases

Website Monitoring

Server Monitoring

Network Monitoring

Application Performance Management

Incident Management

Oh Dear's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Oh Dear users:

Uptime reporting

4.9

(51)

Real-Time notifications

4.8

(5)

Activity dashboard

4.8

(5)

Server monitoring

4.6

(12)

Event logs

4.5

(2)

Availability testing

(0)

All Oh Dear features

Features rating:

4.7

(74)

Access controls/permissions

3.0

(1)

Activity dashboard

4.8

(5)

Activity tracking

(0)

Alerts/Escalation

5.0

(10)

Alerts/Notifications

4.6

(33)

API

5.0

(2)

Application management

(0)

Availability testing

(0)

Compliance management

5.0

(2)

Configurable Alerts

5.0

(2)

Customizable reports

4.3

(3)

Dashboard

(0)

Data visualization

(0)

Email alerts

4.7

(49)

Event logs

4.5

(2)

Event Tracking

(0)

For msps

(0)

For websites

(0)

FTP Monitoring

5.0

(1)

Incident management

4.5

(17)

Incident reporting

(0)

Maintenance scheduling

4.3

(7)

Mobile alerts

3.7

(6)

Monitoring

(0)

Multi-Location monitoring

(0)

Multi-Site monitoring

(0)

Network mapping

(0)

Performance management

(0)

Performance metrics

4.7

(36)

Performance monitoring

(0)

Real-Time analytics

(0)

Real-Time data

(0)

Real-Time monitoring

4.7

(34)

Real-Time notifications

4.8

(5)

Real-Time reporting

4.6

(5)

Real-Time updates

(0)

Remote access/control

(0)

Remote monitoring & management

4.5

(14)

Reporting/Analytics

3.5

(2)

Reporting & statistics

4.7

(6)

Risk alerts

4.8

(13)

Scheduled testing

(0)

Search/Filter

(0)

Server monitoring

4.6

(12)

SSL monitoring

(0)

SSL security

(0)

Task management

(0)

Third-Party integrations

4.6

(9)

Trend analysis

4.6

(5)

Uptime reporting

4.9

(51)

User management

4.5

(4)

Oh Dear alternatives

Oh Dear

4.9

(74)

Starting from

Per month

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.9

Features

4.7

Value for Money

4.6

Customer Support

4.7

ManageEngine Applications Manager

4.6

(274)

visit website

Starting from

395

Per year

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.6

Features

4.7

Value for Money

4.7

Customer Support

4.7

Site24x7

4.7

(397)

visit website

Starting from

Per month

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.6

Features

4.6

Value for Money

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Datadog

4.6

(370)

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Starting from

Per month

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.3

Features

4.5

Value for Money

4.1

Customer Support

4.3

Oh Dear pricing

Value for money rating:

4.6

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan

Free trial

Subscription

5 websites

Per month

10 websites

Per month

25 websites

Per month

50 websites

Per month

100 websites

140

Per month

200 websites

220

Per month

User opinions about Oh Dear price and value

Value for money rating:

4.6

(74)

To see what individual users think of Oh Dear's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“Notifications can be sent to the channels we want, which is really convenient.”

Peter E.

Tech Lead

“It's not only site-is-down monitor, it's also cron, sitemaps, performance, lighthouse reports, status pages, etc.”

Slava A.

Engineering Manager

Oh Dear integrations (8)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 74 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as Oh Dear integrations and how users feel about them.

Slack

Integration rating: 4.7 (3)

Webhook Relay

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

PagerDuty

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

“Integrating Datadog with PagerDuty ensures critical latency threshold alerts trigger immediate phone calls to the right on-call developers, preventing extended system outages.”

Conann F.

Software Engineer

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