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Decide on External Monitoring Solution

Problem​

We’ll want some sort of external monitoring solution, ideally provided by an external third-party SaaS.

Solution​

Use a third-party monitoring solution, ideally one that supports more advanced synthetics as well as behind-the-firewall monitoring checks.

tip

We recommend you stick with the synthetic monitoring provided by Datadog which supports both public and private endpoints via the private locations.

ServicePricing Page
Pingdomhttps://www.pingdom.com/pricing/
UptimeRobothttps://uptimerobot.com/pricing/
NewRelic Synthetic Monitorshttps://docs.newrelic.com/docs/synthetics/synthetic-monitoring/using-monitors/intro-synthetic-monitoring/#types-of-synthetic-monitors
StatusCakehttps://www.statuscake.com/pricing/
Datadog Synthetic Monitoringhttps://www.datadoghq.com/product/synthetic-monitoring/

https://docs.datadoghq.com/getting_started/synthetics/private_location/

(We have full support for this in our https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-datadog-platform module)
caution

Datadog Synthetics can get very pricey