Pointsman vs Pingyard
Pingyard is free to start. Pointsman costs a little and retries before it pages.
Pointsman
Pingyard
Check interval
Every minute
Every 3 minutes
Regions
6
4
Status pages
Unlimited
1 included
On-call schedules
Included
Basic
Price at 100 monitors
$39 a month
$29 a month
Incident timeline
Included
Basic
Postmortem drafts
Included
Not included
Escalation rules
Included
Included
Alert channels
Phone, SMS, Slack, email
Slack, email
Free trial
14 days
14 days
Setup time
Minutes
Minutes
In detail
The short version
Pingyard is friendly and easy to start with. Pointsman costs a little more and adds a real on-call schedule, deeper incidents and fewer false alarms.
Where Pingyard is stronger
A lower price for very small monitor counts
Good built-in templates for beginners
Where Pointsman is stronger
Phone and SMS paging when Slack is not enough
Two-region confirmation on every check
Postmortem drafts written from the timeline
Moving over
Add your monitors by CSV, connect Slack and turn Pingyard off once a week of checks looks right. Your history stays in Pingyard, so export it first if you need it.
Pick the other one if
You are a side project and budget matters most.
Pick Pointsman if
A false alarm at night costs you more than a subscription.
