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24 alternatives to Bastions

Automated form testing and HTTPS monitoring made easy

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Bastions launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Crawly▲234

    Uptime, performance, SSL certificate and asset monitoring.

    2018 · its alternatives →

  2. 2CS
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    Pulsetic▲407

    Know when your site is down before your customers do

    2020 · pulsetic.com · its alternatives →

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  5. 5BI

    Self-hosted virtual machines for background coding agents.

    Jun 2026 · bastion.computer · its alternatives →

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    Simple SSL monitoring.

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    SimpleOps▲297

    Keep your websites up and never lose customers

    2020 · simpleops.io · its alternatives →

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    Monitoring for websites, APIs, and cron jobs

    2024 · webgazer.io · its alternatives →

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    Nodeify▲72

    Website SSL certificate monitoring

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    PingPing▲168

    A simple tool to monitor your website and SSL

    2018 · pingping.io · its alternatives →

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    Free SSL monitoring app for macOS

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Benchmark proxies for reliable, target-specific scraping

    Aug 2026 · scrapeops.io · its alternatives →

  13. 13SD
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    Free way to identify SSL configuration issues

    2019 · magenticians.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15EY
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    Keep the business running, get reminded to extend your SSL

    2021 · sslreminder.pro · its alternatives →

  17. 17AR

    From the cryptic terminal commands to the innumerable ways to shoot yourself in the foot, I always struggled to use TLS certificates. I love how much easier (and cheaper) Let's Encrypt made it to get certificates, but there are still plenty of things to struggle with. That's why we built Relay: a free, browser-based tool that streamlines the ACME workflow, especially for tricky setups like homelabs. Relay acts as a secure intermediary between your ACME client and public certificate authorities like Let's Encrypt. Some ways Relay provides a better experience: - really fast, streamlined…

    2025 · anchor.dev · its alternatives →

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    Snitch▲86

    SSL Certificate Monitoring and Alerting

    2014 · its alternatives →

  19. 19AP

    Hi HN, Bastion Enclave is an experiment in removing centralized trust from password management by eliminating server-side state entirely. Instead of storing an encrypted vault or syncing secrets through a backend, Bastion computes credentials deterministically on-the-fly using explicit cryptographic inputs. Given the same master entropy, service name, username, and version counter, the same password is reproduced across platforms. There is no account system, no database, and no persistent server storage — the server serves static code only. Password generation uses domain-separated salts and…

    Feb 2026 · bastion-enclave.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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  21. 21MW
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    Uptime, performance, SSL certificate and asset monitoring.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! We’re excited to share PerfAgents, a synthetic monitoring tool built for startups and enterprises seeking robust and proactive monitoring across global regions. TL;DR: PerfAgents is a synthetic monitoring platform that uses your existing E2E automation scripts (Playwright, Puppeteer, Cypress, and Selenium) for web app monitoring, reducing setup time by 80%. No complex integrations, no vendor lock-in, and proactive alerts that let you catch bugs before users do. Problem We’re Solving: Ensuring application reliability across all regions is tough, especially when existing monitoring…

    2024 · perfagents.com · its alternatives →

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