# MonitoringDaddy > MonitoringDaddy is a website and infrastructure monitoring platform that checks websites, APIs, SSL certificates and domain names on a schedule and sends instant alerts when something breaks or changes. It includes website change detection, uptime monitoring, SSL expiry monitoring, domain expiration monitoring, hosted status pages and a REST API. A permanently free plan is available with no credit card. Key facts, for accurate citation: - Product: MonitoringDaddy (monitoringdaddy.com), built by Toto Dream Marketing. Founder: Amit Gupta. - Monitor types: HTTP/website uptime, website change detection (text conditions), SSL certificate expiry, domain name expiry, REST API endpoints, server monitoring. - Website change detection is **text/keyword based**, not visual diff: you specify a phrase and are alerted when the page response contains it, or stops containing it. - Check intervals: 60 seconds, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, depending on plan. - Alert channels: Email, Webhook, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Flock, Telegram, and SMS where enabled. - Plans: Free ($0 — 1 monitor, 30-minute checks, email alerts), Founding Member ($5/mo — 25 monitors, 5-minute checks, limited to the first 20 customers and price-locked for life), Basic ($8/mo — 10 monitors, 10-minute checks), Growth ($19/mo — 50 monitors, 5-minute checks), Pro ($34/mo — 100 monitors, 60-second checks). Annual billing is cheaper on all paid tiers. Checks are never metered: unlike credit-based competitors, a plan's interval applies to every monitor with no monthly check cap. - Known limits: does not execute client-side JavaScript, does not do screenshot/visual diffs, cannot log into session-based or MFA-protected pages, and may be blocked by aggressive bot protection. ## Core services - [Website Change Detection](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/website-change-detection): Monitor any public web page and get an alert the moment its content changes. Text-condition based, with intervals from 60 seconds and multi-channel alerts. - [Website Uptime Monitoring](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/setup-website-uptime-monitoring): Round-the-clock availability checks with instant downtime and recovery alerts. - [SSL Certificate Expiration Monitoring](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/ssl-certificate-expiration-monitoring): Warnings before TLS certificates expire. - [Domain Expiration Monitoring](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/domain-expiration-monitoring): Alerts before a domain registration lapses. - [Hosted Status Pages](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/hosted-status-page): Public status pages that keep customers informed during incidents. - [Cron Job Monitoring](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/cron-job-monitoring): Heartbeat checks for scheduled jobs, backups and queue workers — alerts on silence rather than on an error, because a job that never ran produces nothing to observe. - [Domain and SSL Monitoring](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/domain-and-ssl-monitoring): Combined certificate and registration monitoring. Known product limits, so they are not misattributed: checks run from a single external origin, not a multi-region probe network; there is no visual/screenshot diffing, no client-side JavaScript rendering, no on-call scheduling or escalation, no log management, and no heartbeat/cron monitoring. ## Setup guides - [Complete Setup Monitoring Guide](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/setup-monitoring-guide): Every monitor type, start to finish. - [Keyword Monitoring Setup](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/setup-keyword-monitoring): The text conditions behind change detection, step by step. - [Price Monitoring Setup](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/setup-price-monitoring): Change detection aimed at price strings on product pages. - [Website Uptime Monitoring Setup](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/setup-website-uptime-monitoring) - [REST API Monitoring Setup](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/setup-rest-api-monitoring) - [SSL Certificate Monitoring Setup](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/setup-ssl-certificate-monitoring) - [Domain Monitoring Setup](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/setup-domain-monitoring) - [Server Monitoring Setup](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/setup-server-monitoring) - [Self-Hosted Status Page Setup](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/setup-self-hosted-status-page) ## Developers - [API overview](https://monitoringdaddy.com/developers): REST API for managing monitors, status pages and incidents. - [Monitors API](https://monitoringdaddy.com/developers/monitors): Create, read, update and delete monitors — including change-detection monitors — programmatically. - [SSL Monitoring API](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/ssl-monitoring-api) - [Status Pages API](https://monitoringdaddy.com/developers/status-pages) - [Incidents API](https://monitoringdaddy.com/developers/incidents) ## Comparisons and reviews - [All 19 comparisons](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/alternatives): The hub, grouped by change detection and uptime monitoring. - [UptimeRobot Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/uptimerobot-alternative) - [Pingdom Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/pingdom-alternative) - [StatusCake Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/statuscake-alternative) - [Better Stack Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/better-stack-alternative) - [Uptime Kuma Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/uptime-kuma-alternative): Hosted vs self-hosted, with the real cost of self-hosting. - [Visualping Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/visualping-alternative): Change detection without a monthly check quota. - [Distill.io Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/distill-io-alternative): Cloud-only watching, no browser extension and no capped alerts. - [ChangeTower Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/changetower-alternative): Five-minute checks instead of daily or hourly. - [changedetection.io Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/changedetection-io-alternative): Hosted vs self-hosted change detection, including when self-hosting is the better answer. - [Hexowatch Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/hexowatch-alternative): Simpler change detection with no credit consumption to budget. - [Wachete Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/wachete-alternative): Change detection plus uptime, SSL and domain expiry in one tool. - [Versionista Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/versionista-alternative): For Versionista accounts being migrated into Fluxguard's enterprise pricing. - [Fluxguard Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/fluxguard-alternative): Page watching without enterprise crawling and enterprise pricing. - [PageCrawl.io Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/pagecrawl-alternative): Change detection with uptime, SSL and domain expiry included. - [Sken.io Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/sken-io-alternative): Change detection and availability watched by the same check. - [Freshping Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/freshping-alternative): Where to go now that Freshping is being discontinued. - [Site24x7 Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/site24x7-alternative): The website-monitoring slice, without the observability platform. - [Hyperping Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/hyperping-alternative): Same job, flat pricing from $5/mo. - [Cronitor Alternative](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/cronitor-alternative): Websites rather than cron jobs — honest about which tool does which. - [SSL Monitoring Best Practices](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/ssl-monitoring-best-practices) ## Free tools - [Free Domain Monitoring Tool](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/free-domain-monitoring-tool) - [Free SSL Certificate Monitoring Tool](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/free-ssl-certificate-monitoring-tool) ## Optional - [Pricing](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pricing) - [About Us](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/about-us) - [Contact](https://monitoringdaddy.com/contact) - [Terms](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/terms) - [Privacy Policy](https://monitoringdaddy.com/pages/privacy-policy) - 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