AlertMyBusiness and IsDown: which one for a small business?
IsDown is built for monitoring the official status pages of the services a team depends on, with alerts and a shared outage history; close to StatusGator in aim. AlertMyBusiness is built for a business owner who wants everything that goes wrong quietly watched in one place. Here is where each is stronger.
What IsDown does well
- Large status page catalogue.
- Outage history and a dashboard per team.
- Integrations for chat tools.
IsDown's own site has the current feature list and prices.
Feature by feature
| What | IsDown | AlertMyBusiness |
|---|---|---|
| Official vendor status pages, polled | Yes | Yes |
| User-reported outages (is it down for others?) | Partly | Yes |
| Your own website uptime, checked from two regions | No | Yes |
| SSL certificate and domain expiry | No | Yes |
| Plain-English alerts for vulnerable software you run | No | Yes |
| Data breach alerts for your staff emails | No | Yes |
| Scam campaigns aimed at your bank, tools and industry | No | Yes |
| Tax and compliance due dates with reminders | No | Yes |
| Power outages at your locations | No | Yes |
| Grants matched to your business | No | Yes |
| Fix guides written for a business owner | No | Yes |
| A free plan that does not expire | Partly | Yes |
IsDown column as their site describes the product at the time of writing (26 October 2026); tell us through Report an inaccuracy if it has changed.
Choose IsDown when
You want a status-page dashboard for an engineering or support team and nothing else.
Choose AlertMyBusiness when
You want vendor status as one part of watching a whole small business: the website, the domain, scams, due dates, power and grants, with alerts a non-technical owner can act on.
Common questions
Is AlertMyBusiness a replacement for IsDown?
For a small business, usually yes for the overlap, because the same alerts arrive with the rest of what we watch. For monitoring the official status pages of the services a team depends on, with alerts and a shared outage history; close t…, IsDown may still be the better fit.
What does IsDown cost?
Their site lists current plans; we do not quote competitors' prices because they change. AlertMyBusiness is free for the basics and sells add-ons from one dollar a month.
Where does your data come from?
Official status pages, government advisories, vulnerability databases, breach catalogues, registries, distributors and our own checks. Every alert and page lists its sources.
Try the free plan beside it
Nothing to cancel: one website, ten tools, one location, scams and due dates, forever. Keep the other tool if it earns its place.