Loadster Synthetic Monitoring
7.8#2 in performance testing softwareFrom $29 a monthFree planWebAPIExtensionLinux
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What both publish
| Fact | Loadster Synthetic Monitoring | Sentinel |
|---|---|---|
| Integrations | Documented integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie and VictorOps (Splunk On-Call). | GitHub deploy markers, Terraform, PagerDuty, a CLI and MCP-based AI assistants are supported; Zapier and Datadog are listed as coming soon. |
| Licence | Loadster software is proprietary and licensed for subscription use under its Terms of Use; the company states the product is not open source. | The hosted Sentinel service is proprietary, while the published Sentinel CLI is open source under the MIT licence. |
| Notifications | Incident notifications support email, SMS, robocalls and integrations, and weekly summary emails report pass rates, failures and trends. | Alert channels include email, SMS, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Microsoft Teams and webhooks. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.4 out of 5 from 6 reviews | The G2 Sentinel pricing listing displays a 5.0 out of 5 rating; the page does not state a review count. |
| Security | Loadster states that production data is stored in a virtual private cloud, the production database is encrypted at rest, and data is transmitted using TLS. | The sub-processors page says customer data is stored on Hetzner servers in Ashburn, Virginia, while probe servers in Germany and Singapore perform checks without storing customer data. |
Loadster Synthetic Monitoring plans
- Free account starter fuelFree
- Monitoring Plans$29 a month
- Monthly Fuel 1K$77 a month
- 1K Monthly Fuel Plan$77 a month
- Pay-As-You-Go Fuel 1K$97, paid once
- Pay-As-You-Go Fuel — 1,000 units$97, paid once
Sentinel plans
- FreeFree
- Starter$14 a month
- Pro$29 a month
- Business$79 a month
Pick Loadster Synthetic Monitoring if…
Loadster suits teams that want scheduled checks and alerting for websites, web apps, or APIs. Self-hosted monitoring may suit sites that are not publicly accessible or need checks from a specific location.
Pick Sentinel if…
Sentinel suits digital agencies, freelance developers and designers, and SaaS teams that manage one or more sites. It offers monitoring, status pages, and incident history for those services.