monitor.us(https://monitor.us) vs. Paid Monitor(https://www.monitor.us) Features
| Features | monitor.us | Paid Monitor |
| Check interval for External Monitor | Fixed 30 minutes | Adjustable 1-60 minutes |
| Monitoring locations | 2(US, EU) | 11(US-CENTRAL,US-EAST, US-WEST, Panama, UK, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, China, Australia, Singapore), possibility of adding custom location |
| Content matching | No | Yes |
| Maintenance periods specification | No | Yes |
| Supported protocols | 10 | 11 |
| Advanced DNS check | No | Yes |
| MySQL check | No | Yes |
| GET and POST methods support | No | Yes |
| SSL/TLS support | No | Yes |
| Response Timeout | Fixed 10 seconds | Adjustable |
| Windows agent | Yes | Yes |
| Linux agent | No | Yes |
| Solaris agent | No | Yes |
| FreeBSD agent | No | Yes |
| Notifications for Internal Monitoring | No | Yes |
| Windows System Events Monitoring | No | Yes |
| Overall CPU usage Monitoring | No | Yes |
| Installed Software Monitoring | No | Yes |
| Advanced Windows Agent Manager | No | Yes |
| Check Interval for Internal Monitor | 30 minutes | 5 minutes |
| Notification Alerts | IM, SMS, E-mail, Twitter | IM, SMS, E-mail, Twitter, Voice alerts |
| Rule-based notifications | No | Yes |
| Escalation levels | No | Yes |
| Contact Groups | No | Yes |
| One mail option | No | Yes |
| Adjustable time interval for notifications | No | Yes |
| External Reports | Current and Previous months only | Yearly/monthly, yearly/weekly, monthly/daily, weekly/daily current month, previous month |
| Maintenance periods exclusion in reports | No | Yes |
| External Snapshot | Yes | Yes |
| Internal Snapshot | No | Yes |
| Weekly report | Main e-mail only | Multiple e-mails |
| Daily report | No | Yes |
| Monthly report | No | Yes |
| Monitors selection in weekly, daily and monthly reports | No | Yes |
| Internal Reports | No | Yes |
| Error codes in notification e-mails | No | Yes |
| Adjustable timezone for notification e-mails | No | Yes |
| Account management | No | Yes |
| Top 10 Devices by CPU, Load Average, Response Time, Memory, Drive | No | Yes |
| Plugin for Firefox | No | Yes |
| Transaction monitor | No | Yes |
| Data exporting options as PDF/CSV | No | Yes |
| Flash-based charts with save as image possibility | No | Yes |
| Premium Support | No | Yes |
| EC2 Monitor | No | Yes |
| S3 Monitor | No | Yes |
| Rackspace Monitor | No | Yes |
| Public Report | No | Yes |
See full list of Paid Monitor features here https://portal.monitor.us/web/guest/features
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