Pointsman vs Watchpost
Watchpost covers full observability. Pointsman does the uptime part with far less setup.
Pointsman
Watchpost
Check interval
Every minute
Every 30 seconds
Regions
6
20
Status pages
Unlimited
Paid add-on
On-call schedules
Included
Included
Price at 100 monitors
$39 a month
$180 a month
Incident timeline
Included
Included
Postmortem drafts
Included
Paid add-on
Escalation rules
Included
Included
Alert channels
Phone, SMS, Slack, email
Phone, SMS, Slack, email
Free trial
14 days
14 days
Setup time
Minutes
Days
In detail
The short version
Watchpost is a full observability platform with logs, traces and metrics. Pointsman is only uptime and incidents, which means far less to set up and a much smaller bill.
Where Watchpost is stronger
Logs, traces and APM in the same place
Deep dashboards for large platform teams
Where Pointsman is stronger
Running the same afternoon, with no agents to roll out
Status pages included on every plan
Priced by the monitor
Moving over
Many teams keep Watchpost for debugging and move only uptime and paging to Pointsman. Point your existing alerts at a Pointsman webhook to begin.
Pick the other one if
You also want logs, traces and APM in one bill.
Pick Pointsman if
You want uptime and incidents running this afternoon.
