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Distill Web Monitor tracks changes across websites and other online content on a schedule. You can run checks locally or in the cloud, select precise page areas, and refine them with XPath, CSS, regular expressions, or JavaScript. Alert rules can combine text matches, numeric ranges, and regular expressions. It also covers PDFs, JSON, Word, XML, feeds, uptime checks, and sitemaps, with notifications through email, SMS, phone push, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and webhooks. Macros and API access support automation, while local checks can run every five seconds.

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    Dotcom-Monitor

    by Dotcom-Monitor
    Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+4

    Basic uptime and keyword monitoring across 25 locations — Dotcom-Monitor adds 25 monitoring locations, SSL expiry alerts, and keyword monitoring, but allows five monitors and 15-minute checks.

    7.6 Free plan · paid from $13.33/mo · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Tallwatch

    Free plan APILinuxMac+2

    Regional outage monitoring with incident response — Tallwatch checks websites and APIs across six regions, requiring two matching failures before incidents and adding on-call escalation.

    7.2 Free plan · paid from $11.99/mo (annual) Visit site
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    Visual Sentinel

    Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1

    Visual website change and infrastructure monitoring — Visual Sentinel compares browser screenshots and combines visual, uptime, SSL, DNS, performance, API, endpoint, and server checks.

    6.9 Free plan · paid from $6/mo · 10-day trial Visit site
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    Better Stack

    Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1

    Integrated incident, telemetry, and uptime operations — Better Stack combines uptime with incident management, on-call, telemetry, error tracking, real-user monitoring, and AI incident investigation.

    7.6 Free plan · paid from $29/mo (annual) Visit site
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    Downdetector

    Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1

    Public service outage awareness and trend analysis — Downdetector relies on user reports and online sources to identify service incidents, rather than monitoring pages you select.

    7.5 Free plan Visit site
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    OnWebChange

    Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1

    Low-cost webpage and document change alerts — OnWebChange monitors dynamic and login-protected pages plus PDFs, images, and text files, with checks as fast as five minutes.

    7.3 Free plan · paid from €0.89/mo Visit site
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    SolidPing

    by SolidPing
    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+2

    High-volume infrastructure monitoring and self-hosting — SolidPing supports up to 1,000 monitors, six locations, server monitoring, self-hosting, and an extensive alert-channel selection.

    7.2 Free plan · paid from €5/mo Visit site
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    Cronitor

    Free plan APILinuxWeb
    7.5 Free plan · paid from $2/mo · 14-day trial Visit site
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    ArxEyes

    Free plan Web
    7.2 Free plan · paid from $9/mo Visit site
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    DownNotifier.com

    Free plan APIWeb
    7.2 Free plan · paid from $14.95/yr Visit site
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    GTmetrix

    Free plan APIWeb
    7.2 Visit site
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    HostTracker

    Free plan APIWeb
    7.2 Free plan · paid from $5/mo · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Dead Link Checker

    Free plan Web
    7.1 Free plan · paid from $9.95/mo Visit site
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    deltaFeed

    Free plan Web
    7.1 Free plan · paid from €6.25/mo Visit site
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    Dr. Link Check

    Free plan Web
    7.1 Free plan · paid from $13/mo Visit site
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    LibrePing

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    7.1 Open source Visit site
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    Montastic

    by Montastic
    Free plan APIWeb
    7.1 Free plan · paid from $5/mo Visit site
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    Uptime Cairn

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    7.1 Free plan Visit site
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    Uptime Kuma

    Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb+1
    7.1 Free plan Visit site
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    Hyperping

    by Hyperping
    Free plan Web
    7.0 Free plan · paid from $24/mo (annual) · 14-day trial Visit site
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    Pinger Man

    Free plan APIWeb
    7.0 Free plan · paid from $1/mo · 14-day trial Visit site
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    MonSpark

    by MonSpark
    Free plan APIExtensionWeb
    6.9 Free plan Visit site
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    Page Monitor

    Free plan Web
    6.9 Free plan · paid from $10/mo Visit site
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    SiteLock

    Free plan Self-hostedWeb
    6.9 Free plan · paid from $19.99/mo · 30-day trial Visit site

Its free plan allows 25 monitors but only five cloud monitors, and cloud checks start at six-hour intervals; paid plans begin at $15 per month. Distill supports Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, browser extensions, and the web, yet another service may suit you better for outage detection, server checks, visual comparisons, regional confirmation, incident response, status pages, or telemetry. When switching, weigh monitoring scope, check speed, locations, integrations, APIs, platform support, limits, and price against the need for detailed content selection and filtering.

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