The Oh Dear alternative with on-call and incidents
Uptime, certificate, DNS and server monitoring with on-call rotations, escalation paths, phone calls and incidents behind it. Both from the Benelux.
Which one fits you
Oh Dear: Oh Dear is a website monitoring service from Belgium that checks uptime, certificates, broken links, mixed content, DNS, domains, scheduled tasks, performance and application health per site, with status pages. All plans include every feature and unlimited users.
Choose Spectate when
- You need on-call schedules, escalation paths and phone calls you acknowledge with a key press.
- You want incidents with roles, a timeline, postmortems and a Slack channel per incident.
- You want alerts from Grafana, Prometheus Alertmanager and Sentry in the same escalation paths.
- You monitor many endpoints: 80 monitors cost €48 a month on Team.
Choose Oh Dear when
- You want broken link, mixed content, Lighthouse and sitemap checks on websites. Spectate has none of these.
- You need scheduled task (cron) monitoring or application health checks.
- You want your monitoring data hosted in Belgium.
- You monitor a handful of websites and want every check per site for one price.
- You want each site checked from several locations.
Spectate vs Oh Dear, feature by feature
Oh Dear pricing: Oh Dear is priced per site with every feature included: Solo €15 a month for 2 sites, Freelance €49 for 10, Agency €149 for 50, up to Scale €399 for 200; yearly billing gives 2 months free, and USD billing is available on request (checked October 2026).
| Feature | Spectate | Oh Dear |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring | ||
| Uptime checks | Yes | Yes |
| Ping and TCP checks | Yes | Yes |
| Shortest check interval | 30sTeam and Business; 60s on Starter | 1m |
| Check locations | 1 of 4 regions per monitorPick Europe, North America, Asia or Oceania per monitor; a failed check is rechecked from the same region after about 5s before the monitor goes down. | 33 servers in 16 cities |
| SSL certificate monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| DNS and domain expiry | Yes | Yes |
| Broken links, mixed content and Lighthouse | No | Yes |
| Scheduled task (cron) monitoring | No | Yes |
| Alerting and on-call | ||
| On-call schedules and escalation pathsOh Dear hands on-call off to PagerDuty or Opsgenie. | Team and Business | No |
| Incidents | ||
| Incidents with roles and postmortems | Yes | No |
| Status pages | ||
| Status pages with custom domain | Yes | Yes |
| Subscriber notifications | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing | ||
| Price for 50 monitors and 5 responders | €48 a monthTeam: 50 monitors is under the 80-monitor minimum, so 80 × €0.60 = €48 a month (€480 a year). Unlimited members, so 5 or 50 responders cost the same. | €149 a monthAgency: 50 sites, unlimited users. An Oh Dear site bundles all its checks; on Spectate an HTTPS monitor covers uptime and its certificate, and DNS or mail checks are separate monitors. |
| Per-user pricing | No | No |
| Billing currency | EUR | EUR or USD |
| Data and compliance | ||
| Headquarters | Netherlands | Belgium |
| Invoiced from the EU, in euros | Yes | Yes |
Checked in Oct 2026 from Oh Dear's public pages (ohdear.app/pricing, ohdear.app/features, ohdear.app/features/gdpr, ohdear.app/about). Prices change: if something here is out of date, tell us at hello@spectate.net and we'll fix it.
Moving from Oh Dear
Most teams run both side by side for a week. Email help@spectate.net if you'd like a hand.
- 01Start a 14-day trial; no card needed. The trial runs on Team, with 80 monitors and on-call.
- 02Recreate your Oh Dear checks as Spectate monitors. There is no importer; each monitor takes a minute or two, and help@spectate.net can help with larger lists.
- 03Connect your channels (email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, phone numbers) and set up an escalation path.
- 04Run both tools side by side for a few days, then move your status page domain with one DNS record.
Spectate and Oh Dear
Is Spectate cheaper than Oh Dear?
Per endpoint, usually. Spectate Team is €48 a month for 80 monitors and unlimited members; Oh Dear Agency is €149 a month for 50 sites. But an Oh Dear site includes broken link, mixed content, performance and cron checks, which Spectate doesn't offer.
Can I import my sites from Oh Dear?
There is no importer. Recreating a monitor takes a minute or two, and help@spectate.net can help with a longer list.
Does Spectate check broken links or mixed content?
No. Spectate focuses on availability: HTTP(S) with keywords, ping, TCP, DNS, mail servers, certificate chains, domains and servers. For website quality checks such as broken links and Lighthouse scores, Oh Dear is the better fit.
What does Spectate add over Oh Dear?
On-call rotations and escalation paths, phone calls you acknowledge by pressing 1, incidents with roles and postmortems, a Slack app with incident channels, and alert sources for Grafana, Prometheus and Sentry.
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