# Blackbox Exporter vs Oh Dear

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Oh Dear

| Attribute | Blackbox Exporter | Oh Dear |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 43.6 (33% (low)) | 72.6 (73% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 22 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 17 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 5,896 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Blackbox Exporter is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Is Blackbox Exporter free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Blackbox Exporter supports Windows, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does Blackbox Exporter support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Blackbox Exporter can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Can Blackbox Exporter be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Blackbox Exporter is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter","question":"Is Blackbox Exporter open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"Oh Dear monitors website uptime, SSL certificate expiration, DNS records, broken links, and scheduled tasks from multiple global locations. It sends alerts through Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or webhooks, and includes branded status pages for client transparency. It is indexed under Uptime Monitoring.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"What is Oh Dear?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Oh Dear is a paid product; published pricing starts at €15 per month. It is sold across 4 plans (Solo, Freelance, Professional and Business). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"How much does Oh Dear cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Oh Dear supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"What platforms does Oh Dear support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Oh Dear, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"Can Oh Dear be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 12 integrations for Oh Dear, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Discord, Email, SMS and Pushover, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"What does Oh Dear integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed ISO 27001 and GDPR for Oh Dear. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Oh Dear not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"What security certifications does Oh Dear have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Oh Dear is available worldwide. Its primary market is Belgium. The vendor is headquartered in Belgium.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"Where is Oh Dear available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source exporter that performs synthetic health checks on network endpoints including HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, ICMP, and gRPC, measuring availability and collecting performance metrics for Prometheus. | Oh Dear monitors website uptime, SSL certificate expiration, DNS records, broken links, and scheduled tasks from multiple global locations. It sends alerts through Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or webhooks, and includes branded status pages for client transparency. |
| features.capabilities | `{"pricing_model":"open_source","dns_monitoring":true,"deployment_model":"self_host","http_https_checks":true,"ssl_expiry_monitoring":true}` | `{"soc2_type_ii":false,"pricing_model":"subscription","dns_monitoring":true,"deployment_model":"saas","http_https_checks":true,"sms_voice_alerting":true,"bundled_status_page":true,"slack_teams_alerting":true,"multi_location_checks":true,"ssl_expiry_monitoring":true,"synthetic_browser_checks":true,"cron_heartbeat_monitoring":true,"incident_pagerduty_integration":true}` |
| integrations.count | 1 | 12 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Prometheus"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"SMS"},{"name":"Pushover"},{"name":"ntfy"},{"name":"Webhooks"},{"name":"Laravel Health"},{"name":"Laravel Forge API"},{"name":"Teams","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Webhook","native":true,"direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Telegram","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Chat","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"bidirectional"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"BE","primaryMarkets":["BE"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T20:27:01.298Z"}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Freelance","summary":"€49/month billed annually (2 months free)","features":["Uptime monitoring","Sitemap monitoring","AI-powered checks","Ping monitoring","TCP port monitoring","Scheduled tasks (cron)","SSL certificate health","DNS records","DNS blocklist","All integrations","Public status pages","Single Sign-On (SSO)","Full API","Friendly human support"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Monitor up to 10 sites and servers","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"sites":"10"}},{"free":false,"name":"Studio","summary":"€99/month","features":["Uptime monitoring","Sitemap monitoring","AI-powered checks","Ping monitoring","TCP port monitoring","Scheduled tasks (cron)","SSL certificate health","DNS records","DNS blocklist","All integrations","Public status pages","Single Sign-On (SSO)","Full API","Friendly human support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Monitor up to 25 sites and servers","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"sites":"25"}},{"free":false,"name":"Professional","summary":"€149/month","features":["Uptime monitoring","Sitemap monitoring","AI-powered checks","Ping monitoring","TCP port monitoring","Scheduled tasks (cron)","SSL certificate health","DNS records","DNS blocklist","All integrations","Public status pages","Single Sign-On (SSO)","Full API","Friendly human support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":149,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Monitor up to 50 sites and servers","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"sites":"50"}}],"summary":"From €49/month (billed annually) to €149/month. 10-day free trial with all features. 30-day money-back guarantee.","currency":"EUR","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-29T10:52:01.354Z","freeTrialDays":10,"startingPrice":{"amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":49,"currency":"EUR"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 123 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.29.0","date":"2026-10-07T09:40:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.29.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.28.0","date":"2025-12-06T13:32:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.27.0","date":"2025-06-30T13:45:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.27.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.26.0","date":"2025-02-26T13:51:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.26.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.25.0","date":"2024-04-09T13:30:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.25.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.24.0","date":"2023-05-16T11:23:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.24.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.23.0","date":"2022-12-02T20:59:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.23.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.22.0","date":"2022-08-02T14:26:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.22.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.21.1","date":"2022-06-23T16:09:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.21.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.21.0","date":"2022-05-30T15:06:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.21.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.21.0-rc.0","date":"2022-05-11T11:14:26Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.21.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.20.0","date":"2022-03-16T23:52:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.20.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.20.0-rc.0","date":"2022-02-17T20:34:32Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.20.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.19.0","date":"2021-05-10T13:18:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.19.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.18.0","date":"2020-10-12T10:13:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.18.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.17.0","date":"2020-06-19T12:14:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.17.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.16.0","date":"2019-11-11T18:16:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.15.1","date":"2019-09-17T12:52:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.15.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.15.0","date":"2019-09-11T13:09:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.14.0","date":"2019-03-15T13:49:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.0"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.98 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.9 | - |
| security.trust_center | https://github.com/security | https://ohdear.app/security |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":1,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fprometheus%2Fblackbox_exporter&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | - |

## Capabilities (Uptime Monitoring)

| Capability | Blackbox Exporter | Oh Dear |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Deployment model | Self host | Saas |
| HTTP HTTPS checks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ssl expiry monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cron heartbeat monitoring | - | ✓ |
| Synthetic browser checks | - | ✓ |
| DNS monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi location checks | - | ✓ |
| Slack teams alerting | - | ✓ |
| SMS voice alerting | - | ✓ |
| Incident pagerduty integration | - | ✓ |
| Bundled status page | - | ✓ |
| SOC2 type ii | - | ✗ |
| Pricing model | Open source | Subscription |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:19:13.873Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*