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All Features
Monitor every aspect of your online infrastructure with RapidSpike.
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General
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Notifications
Receive notifications via email, SMS, in-app messages, voice call, WebHooks, Slack, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams/Office 365 and Pushover.
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Multi-user
Share your account with multiple other users and assign notifications on a per-website/server basis.
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In the cloud
No complex or time-consuming server software installation required: RapidSpike runs entirely in the cloud.
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PagerDuty integration
Integrate with PagerDuty to raise incidents from our uptime alerts.
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WebHooks
Build you own integrations with WebHooks from our uptime alerts.
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Notes
Log any planned maintenance, updates and issues against a website, display your notes on Public Status Pages.
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Widget-based dashboards
Configure your main dashboards to display whatever you need with a wide variety of usual metrics, graphs and stats in widget form.
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User Access Levels
Configure users to have restricted access to monitors in your account: limit what they can see, and what they can update.
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Global server network
Utilise monitoring locations across the world: we have dozens of servers spread across the world and the ability to rapidly add new nodes on request, virtually anywhere.
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Internal app-messaging
All system messages are recorded in the in-app messaging center.
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Multi-format
The RapidSpike dashboards are designed to work on all types of devices and screen sizes.
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Maintenance Windows
Pause your monitoring at scheduled or one-off periods to avoid unneccessary alerts.
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Backgrounds
Keep calm during unexpected downtime - choose from a variety of beautiful scenic backgrounds!
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Crisis escalation
Use rules to escalate server issues to different team members based on length of down-time.
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Microsoft Teams integration
Receive RapidSpike alerts directly via your Microsoft Teams hub.
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Data period
Configure dashboards to show data from 24h, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days and over 2 years.
Synthetic User Journeys
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Multi-region
Run journeys from any continent/country to test your application from all around the world.
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Critical process monitor
Monitor essential processes - such as logins, shopping carts, baskets, contact forms etc.
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Real browser simulation
The monitor uses a real browser to access your app/website, giving realistic results.
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Video Playback
Records video of your Journey so you can see exactly when and where issues occur.
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Geo-mapping IP Addresses
See your site/app resources in a global view, with highlights for slow loading elements.
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Performance thresholds
Set load time thresholds per journey, per region, to get dynamic alerts based on performance.
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Error detection
Receive notifications for both journey failures and errors caused by any on-page element.
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App ecosystem
Detect the failure of add-ons and external 3rd-party plugins.
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Basic Auth
Access authenticated parts of your platform by sending a username and password.
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Data Breach Detection
See whenever scripts on your site send data to new, untrusted locations.
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Benchmarking
Use RapidSpike to benchmark and understand key processes of your application.
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Self-Service
Write your own Journey scripts using our simple JSON-format instructions, which is then converted into a live Journey.
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Visualise key processes
We auto-generate screenshots during each key step of your user journey.
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Cookie Logs
Helps you comply with GDPR by logging all cookies discovered during the Journey.
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Complex scripts
The Selenium-powered testing platform allows for sophisticated and complex page interactions.
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Blacklisting
Blacklist known files from your Journey results - e.g. prevent tracking scripts like Google Analytics from measuring your Journey traffic.
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Managed service
Enlist our technical account managers to help write and maintain your scripts and translate the results.
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Resource waterfall view
View full details of all page elements, including load times, request and response headers.
Real User Monitoring
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Live data
Monitor live data from real users, just moments after it has been recorded.
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Per-page traffic analysis
Receive in-depth stats for every page on your app/site visited by users.
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Audience geography
Monitor the location and load time of users across the globe, allowing you to benchmark page speed by region.
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Conversion funnels
Build your own multi-page funnels and measure traffic drop-off.
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Revenue stats
Add average order values to your checkout funnel to view potential revenue drops between pages.
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Browser & device detection
Help your dev team to improve performance by tracking load times across browser and device.
Security
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Vunerability Scanning
Perform Network and Web App Vulnerability Scans on-demand and scheduled per day, week, month etc. Detect out-of-date software, configuration issues and vulnerabilities, view reports and remediation.
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SSL Cipher monitor
Track your SSL Cipher, get alerted on any issues and receive a grade for the cryptographic connection strength.
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Magecart Detection
Defend against MageCart, data-skimming and form-jacking attacks. Track hosted and third-party Javascript on your website for data breaches.
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Google Safe Browsing monitor
Tracks the Google Safe Browsing list, which monitors sites for malware, social engineering, phishing, and so on.
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CMS Scanning
Vulnerability Scans optimised to look for vulnerabilities in major Content Management Systems. Including: WordPress, Drupal, SilverStripe, Joomla and Magento.
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Port Scanning
Scan your network perimeter and detect open and closed ports, along with the software and version being run.
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Malicious User Detection
Analyse your traffic for malicious IP addresses, receive alerts and view traffic demographics.
Availability
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Website scanner
When adding a website we will perform a scan to look for a HTTPS certificate and to confirm your canonical domain name.
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Uptime sensitivity
Set intervals as low as 1 minute and up to 1 hour.
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Response Timeout
Set a timeout for your monitors after which we will mark them as failing.
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Status Badges
Advertise your uptime with an "Assured by RapidSpike" badge, availabile in a variety of theme colours.
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Basic Auth
Add a username and password and access pages behind basic authentication.
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Page detection
RapidSpike searches your navigation and suggests pages to monitor automatically.
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API monitoring
API monitor that enables endpoint uptime and response checking via PUT, POST and DELETE.
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Live dashboards
Use our TV Mode to view your monitors live and catch problems as soon as they happen.
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Content Checking
Check your pages for specific content, and alert if it appears (or does not appear).
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Recommended monitors
Not sure what to monitor? RapidSpike will suggest important ports & web page monitors for you.
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In-depth data
View logs of incidents and response times graphs on a granular per-monitor basis.
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Organisation
Organise your monitors by website or by server - and reorder by different metrics, including monitor count, uptime and status.
Assurance & SEO
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SSL monitor
Independently monitor your SSL Certificate and receive notifications of your upcoming expiry.
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Redirect monitor
Ensure your HTTP to HTTPS domain redirect is correctly configured.
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Domain name monitor
Monitor your website domain name WHOIS and get notified of any changes and your upcoming expiry.
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Alexa monitor
Tracks your Alexa Global Traffic Rank automatically so you can monitor improvements over time.
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SEO statistics
Track your ongoing SEO scores on a number of metrics, including page links and domain MozRank.
Reports
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Filters
Comprehensive filters allow you to compare specific websites or servers.
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Graphical reports
Attractive, graphical reports ideal for presentations provide a full breakdown of your uptime monitors by server/website.
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Date compare
Compare different servers or websites over specific time periods.
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Executive Reports
Custom reports designed specifically for management, with top-level metrics and other useful data.
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League tables
Organise your websites or servers into a monthly league table report.
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Scheduled reports
Configure your own regular reports delivered to addresses of your choice.
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Printer friendly
Reports are designed to use a printer friendly layout.
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Monthly summary
We send a monthly summary of all your monitors straight to your inbox.
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Raw data
Download full data logs in CSV format.
