Know it's broken before your customers do.
Web checks, heartbeats, DNS, and SSL — the four checks a small team needs. When one fails, it opens an incident, alerts your team, and updates your status page. Monitoring is the trigger, not the destination.
Four checks a small team actually needs.
Each one wired to open an incident, not just send a ping.
Web checks
HTTP checks as often as every 30 seconds, from up to three regions — a slow response flagged before it falls over, and a confirmed failure that opens an incident.
Web monitors
New MonitorWebsite
https://www.yourcompany.com
RESPONDS HEAD · 60s interval
API Health Check
https://api.yourcompany.com/health
RESPONDS GET · 30s interval
Billing webhooks
https://api.yourcompany.com/webhooks
RESPONDS GET · 60s interval
Heartbeat monitoring for cron jobs and scheduled tasks
The reverse of uptime: your job checks in on a schedule — from anywhere it runs, even behind a firewall — and you hear about it when it doesn't.
DNS monitoring
Watch the records that matter, and hear about a change you didn't make.
SSL certificate monitoring, as part of one domain check
SSL, domain registration, and DNS in one check per domain.
So a renewal you'd otherwise miss becomes an incident with lead time, not a reminder you'll snooze.
Everything here is on the API too.
Every monitor and incident on this page can be created and managed over the REST API — or over MCP, for the tools you point at it. Provision checks from your deploy script, not a dashboard.
The alert is where other tools stop. Here it's the start.
Every check does the same thing when it fails: it opens an incident — and the incident is wired to everything else.
One failed check, from the first alert to the all-clear your customers see.
What we don't monitor
For the deeper picture — why it broke — we'll point you at the right tool.
Not error tracking or APM. That's Sentry or Datadog.
Not infrastructure metrics. That's your cloud provider's dashboards.
Not synthetic browser testing. A category of its own.
Wire up your monitors. Get in early.
StayUpfront is nearly ready, and I'm bringing in founding customers a few at a time. They get founding-customer pricing, a real say in what gets built, and a personal onboarding call with me.
Drop your emailDirect email from Rob when your slot's ready. No drip sequence.