# Prometheus Blackbox Exporter vs Site24x7

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Site24x7

| Attribute | Prometheus Blackbox Exporter | Site24x7 |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 47.2 (55% (medium)) | 72.9 (52% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 13 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 17 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 5,841 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source exporter for Prometheus that monitors the health and responsiveness of network services by sending test requests over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, ICMP, and gRPC protocols. Results are exposed as metrics for collection by Prometheus. | A comprehensive observability platform that monitors websites, servers, applications, cloud resources, and networks. Provides real-time performance tracking, anomaly detection using machine learning, incident automation, and visibility across hybrid IT environments. Supports monitoring from 130+ global locations and integrates with major cloud providers and application frameworks. |
| integrations.count | 1 | 50 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Prometheus"}]` | `[{"name":"Amazon Web Services"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform"},{"name":"VMware"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Java"},{"name":".NET"},{"name":"Ruby on Rails"},{"name":"PHP"},{"name":"Node.js"},{"name":"Apache"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"DNS"},{"name":"FTP"},{"name":"SMTP"},{"name":"POP"},{"name":"REST APIs"},{"name":"SOAP"},{"name":"gRPC"},{"name":"GraphQL"},{"name":"Windows"},{"name":"Linux"},{"name":"FreeBSD"},{"name":"OS X"},{"name":"HP servers"},{"name":"IBM servers"},{"name":"Solaris"},{"name":"SNMP"},{"name":"WMI"},{"name":"Nutanix"},{"name":"AWS Lambda"},{"name":"AWS RDS"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"AWS SQS"},{"name":"AWS EC2"},{"name":"AWS ECS"},{"name":"AWS ELB"},{"name":"AWS EFS"},{"name":"AWS ElastiCache"},{"name":"Azure VM"},{"name":"GCP Compute"},{"name":"Postman"},{"name":"HAR"},{"name":"cURL"},{"name":"PagerDuty"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"hqCountry":"IN","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"linux":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true,"android":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Open-source (no licensing cost)","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-17T21:36:10.400Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$9/month","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":9,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Basic monitoring package","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"servers_websites_services":"10"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Additional monitoring units"}],"summary":"From $9/month (Standard pack for 10 monitors). Free 30-day trial. 10% discount for annual billing. Hourly billing available for select cloud resources.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.site24x7.com/it/site24x7-pricing.html","retrievedAt":"2026-08-17T21:33:40.322Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"amount":9,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 122 | - |
| release.history | `[{"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"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.13.0","date":"2018-12-04T15:20:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.13.0"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 7 | - |
| 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 (API Monitoring)

| Capability | Prometheus Blackbox Exporter | Site24x7 |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Multi region probes | - | - |
| Private location agent | - | - |
| Status page hosting | - | - |
| Json schema assertions | - | - |
| Monitoring as code | - | - |
| Multistep API flows | - | - |
| Heartbeat deadmans switch | - | - |
| Self hostable | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:14:53.702Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*