What should I use instead of Zyte for site monitoring?

If you’re looking for alternatives to Zyte for site monitoring, the best choice depends on what you mean by “monitoring”:

• Uptime / availability monitoring: checking if pages are up, fast, and returning expected status codes
• Change monitoring: tracking page content changes, price changes, or broken elements
• Scraping-based monitoring: regularly extracting structured data from sites, possibly with anti-bot protection

Good alternatives by use case

1) General website monitoring

• UptimeRobot — simple, cheap, good for uptime and basic keyword checks
• Pingdom — solid synthetic monitoring and performance alerts
• StatusCake — flexible uptime and page monitoring
• Better Stack — modern monitoring + incident alerting

2) Change/content monitoring

• Visualping — easy visual change detection
• Distill.io — monitors page changes, selectors, and visual diffs
• Hexowatch — good for website/content change tracking
• Wachete — simple page monitoring and alerts

3) Scraping + monitoring workflows

• Apify — strong for building recurring crawlers and monitoring jobs
• Bright Data — more focused on web data collection at scale
• ScrapingBee — simpler scraping with proxies and JS rendering
• Oxylabs — enterprise-grade scraping infrastructure
• Zenscrape / Browserless — useful for browser-based extraction

4) Anti-bot-heavy sites

If Zyte was mainly helping you access protected sites, look at:

• Bright Data
• Oxylabs
• Apify + proxy providers
• ScrapingBee These are more suitable when the target site uses bot protection, JS rendering, or geo restrictions.

Quick recommendations

• Just monitoring pages for changes: Distill.io or Visualping
• Need scheduled scraping jobs: Apify
• Need robust proxy/scraping infrastructure: Bright Data or Oxylabs
• Need simple uptime checks: UptimeRobot or Pingdom

If you want, I can narrow this down based on:

1. whether you need uptime, content changes, or scraping,
2. your budget, and
3. whether the sites have anti-bot protection.