Appcanary
by Appcanary · Discontinued server vulnerability monitoring, shut down June 2018
20 — BenchRank score out of 100
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Overview
Appcanary monitored the software installed on customers' servers and alerted them when a version had a known vulnerability. It was sold as three products — an API, a server agent and monitor alerting — alongside a public vulnerability browser and the isitvulnerable.com lookup. The team joined GitHub and the service stopped operating on 1 June 2018.
- Best for
- Nobody currently — the service stopped operating on 1 June 2018 and took no new signups.
- Pricing
- No prices appear in the captured text; the service is no longer sold and existing customers were billed only until it closed.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Agent watched servers for software with known vulnerabilities
- Sold as three parts: an API, a server agent and alerting
- Ran a public vulnerability browser and isitvulnerable.com
- Maintained its own vulnerability database, later used by GitHub
Trade-offs
- Shut down on 1 June 2018; new signups stopped in January 2018
- Vendor itself points buyers to GitHub Security Alerts and others
- Captured text is a blog, so features and limits are undocumented
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
- MCP support
- 0 out of 100
- API quality
- 0 out of 100
- Documentation
- 30 out of 100
- Agent friendliness
- 55 out of 100
- Pricing transparency
- 15 out of 100
- Changelog
- 25 out of 100
- Marketing site structure
- 35 out of 100
- Operational trust
- 25 out of 100
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
- Openness
- 60 out of 100
- Maintenance
- 15 out of 100
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