What’s the relationship between Loadster and Speedway for site monitoring?

Loadster and Speedway are two products from the same company, built largely on the same infrastructure and sharing the same scripting and execution capabilities.

Loadster supports both load testing and site monitoring, while Speedway specializes only in site monitoring. You could say that Speedway’s functionality is basically a subset of Loadster’s.

For a while we were recommending Speedway to all users interested in Site & API Monitoring, but as of 2024 we have rolled all the monitoring capabilities back into Loadster as well, so our monitoring customers no longer need to use both apps – you can do it all in Loadster.

Loadster and Speedway still work well together, but we recommend that Loadster users set up their monitoring in Loadster going forward. We’ll continue to support Speedway for the foreseeable future for our customers who are already using it. Please contact us at help@loadster.app if you have questions about the future of Speedway or how to access your existing Speedway monitors in Loadster.

Active site monitoring (also known as synthetic monitoring) is a useful approach for detecting site outages or breakage before they affect your end users, by constantly testing your site with automated traffic on a regular schedule and from geographically distributed locations around the world.

You can take a look at Loadster’s Site & API Monitoring Landing Page to review the high-level benefits of site monitoring, and then read the Loadster manual’s Site & API Monitoring section for more details on how to set up monitoring in Loadster.