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Uptrends
Advanced digital experience monitoring platform integrating multi-step API checks, browser testing, and OpenTelemetry integrations.
About Uptrends
Uptrends focuses heavily on Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), providing engineering and marketing teams with exact data on how users perceive and interact with their applications. By deploying a vast network of over 230 global checkpoints, Uptrends ensures that localized routing issues, CDN failures, or regional outages are detected immediately, regardless of where the user is located.
The platform is renowned for its advanced synthetic capabilities, allowing teams to script complex browser interactions and API sequences. Furthermore, Uptrends embraces modern observability standards by integrating seamlessly with OpenTelemetry, allowing external monitoring data to flow directly into internal engineering dashboards for correlated analysis.
Key Features
- Feature 1: Synthetic web application and browser testing.
- Feature 2: Multi-step API monitoring for complex data workflows.
- Feature 3: Extensive global network of 230+ testing checkpoints.
- Feature 4: Private checkpoints for internal/firewalled network monitoring.
- Feature 5: Real User Monitoring (RUM) for live telemetry.
- Feature 6: Native OpenTelemetry support for data exportation.
Pricing
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Core Plan: $42/month (billed annually) Includes basic uptime checks, standard alerting, and custom dashboards.
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Pro Plan: $60/month (billed annually) Introduces advanced transaction monitoring, API checks, and RUM capabilities using a credit-based scaling system.
Use Cases
- Granular regional performance benchmarking
- Complex API workflow validation
- Synthetic browser interaction testing
- Internal intranet application monitoring
Pros & Cons
Pros:
- Massive global network with over 230 testing locations
- Highly visual and detailed waterfall charts for performance analysis
- Ability to deploy private nodes for internal network testing
Cons:
- Credit-based system for advanced checks can be complex to calculate
- The UI can feel cluttered due to the volume of data presented
Integrations
Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, ServiceNow, OpenTelemetry, Statuspage
FAQ
What is a Private Checkpoint in Uptrends?
A Private Checkpoint is a software agent you install on your own internal network, allowing Uptrends to monitor internal APIs, intranet sites, and databases behind your firewall.
How does Uptrends handle multi-step API checks?
It allows you to chain API requests together, extracting tokens or data from the first response and passing it as a parameter into subsequent API calls to test full workflows.
How many testing locations does Uptrends have?
Uptrends operates one of the largest networks in the industry, with over 230 global testing checkpoints to verify regional availability.
Does Uptrends support OpenTelemetry?
Yes, Uptrends can export its synthetic monitoring data using OpenTelemetry standards, allowing you to ingest the metrics into tools like Datadog or Grafana.
Can Uptrends test Single Page Applications (SPAs)?
Yes, the synthetic transaction monitor uses real browsers (Chrome, Edge) to fully render and interact with complex JavaScript-heavy SPAs.
How is pricing calculated for advanced features?
Advanced features like multi-step API checks (15 credits) and synthetic browser steps (50 credits) consume a monthly credit allowance based on your subscription tier.
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Last edited
November 5, 2026 at 6:33 AM by Venkatraman Chandrasekaran
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