Pointsman vs Lampline
Lampline is a simple pinger. Pointsman adds schedules, incidents and status pages.
Pointsman
Lampline
Check interval
Every minute
Every 5 minutes
Regions
6
3
Status pages
Unlimited
1 included
On-call schedules
Included
Not included
Price at 100 monitors
$39 a month
$49 a month
Incident timeline
Included
Not included
Postmortem drafts
Included
Not included
Escalation rules
Included
Not included
Alert channels
Phone, SMS, Slack, email
Email only
Free trial
14 days
7 days
Setup time
Minutes
Minutes
In detail
The short version
Lampline checks URLs. If you need to know when a handful go down, it is cheap and quick. Pointsman adds schedules, incidents and a status page.
Where Lampline is stronger
A simpler screen with fewer settings
A generous free tier for side projects
Where Pointsman is stronger
A check every minute instead of every five
On-call schedules and escalation built in
A timeline for every incident
Moving over
Export your URLs from Lampline as a CSV and import them under Monitors. Most teams finish in one sitting and run both for a week to compare.
Pick the other one if
You only need a few URLs checked and nobody is on call.
Pick Pointsman if
A team shares the pager and customers expect a status page.
