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AppSignal vs LastPing

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AppSignal compared with LastPing
DetailAppSignalLastPing
What it doesError tracking and performance monitoring that just works Monitoring for AI agents, cron jobs, and CI/CD pipelines that tracks started, progress, blocked and failed signals
StageEstablished Growing
Founded2012 Not given
Based inNL DE
Pricing modelfreemium free
PricingFree plan with 30K requests/month, 1GB logging, and 5-day retention. Paid plan starting at €219/month (€18.25/month when billed yearly) for 250K requests/month. All features included on all plans with unlimited users, teams, and applications. Free for individuals with no monitor cap. A paid team tier may come later with advance notice.
Key features
  • Error Tracking
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Log Management
  • Host Monitoring
  • Uptime Monitoring
  • Distributed Tracing
  • Metric Dashboards
  • MCP Server Integration
  • Deploy Tracking
  • MCP server with 50 tools for AI agents to create their own monitors
  • Absence detection that opens incidents when expected signals never arrive
  • Heartbeat monitoring for cron jobs via HTTP ping
  • CI/CD pipeline monitoring via signed webhooks from GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins
  • HTTP uptime probing for status code, latency, and keyword checks
  • Nine alert destinations with routing matrix and flap damping
  • Public status pages with embeddable badges
  • Terraform provider for monitoring as code
  • Agent registry and fleet view showing monitor status
  • Output assertions catching successful runs that did nothing
What makes it different
  • One tool with unified billing instead of separate monitoring tools
  • Simpler interface compared to competitors like Datadog
  • Affordable pricing with all features included on every plan
  • Real developer support instead of automated systems
  • No SDK, library, or YAML changes required; works with any language via HTTP requests
  • Durable deadlines that survive restarts and never miss a check-in
  • Free for individuals with no monitor cap, fully hosted with no infrastructure to manage
  • Built by a systems engineer with DevOps experience who understands silent failures
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)75 no change since last check1 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)377
Citation Flow (Majestic)5320
Referring domains (Majestic)222248

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