BAD NEWS FLIES FAST.

Pingeon sends a pigeon to your site every minute. If one comes back with bad news, you hear about it first.

Hire a flock Free. No card, no catch.

Your pigeon is on the perch.

Meet the flock.

Six breeds, each trained to check one thing. Send them out on your own schedule.

HTTPThe HomerFlies to your URL and comes back with the status code.
KeywordThe ReaderReads the page and checks the right word is still on it.
SSLThe InspectorChecks when your certificate expires, and warns you well ahead of it.
TCPThe KnockerKnocks on a port and waits for someone to answer.
DNSThe NavigatorMakes sure your domain still points where it should.
HeartbeatThe Roost KeeperWaits for your cron jobs to check in, and raises a fuss when one doesn't.

Who's home?

Every site you watch gets a pigeonhole. A pigeon means it came home. An envelope means it didn't. You can read the Loft from across the room.

One lost pigeon isn't an outage.

We check again ten seconds later. Only when it keeps coming back with bad news does anyone get a dispatch, by email. One when it goes down, one when it comes back. Otherwise, silence.

DISPATCH
CHECKOUT NOT RESPONDING STOP 503 RETURNED STOP GO LOOK STOP
DISPATCH
CHECKOUT BACK UP STOP DOWN 4 MINUTES STOP GO BACK TO BED STOP

Every flight, logged.

Response times, a check history and sixty days of uptime at a glance. When something breaks, the incident keeps its own timeline, and one click on "I am on it" stops the reminders.

CheckoutDown
WebsiteUp

On duty in a minute.

Every account includes 20 monitors, checks every minute and email alerts. No credit card required. Add a URL and your first pigeon takes off right away.

Hire a flock

Before you ask.

How do you avoid false alarms?
A failed check is re-run ten seconds later over a fresh connection. You choose how many failures in a row it takes before we alert you.
Where do the checks come from?
From a server in Germany. The requests identify themselves as PingeonBot, so your logs show who's knocking.
Can you check sites on a private network?
No. We only check public addresses. For internal jobs, have them report in with a heartbeat check.
What does it cost?
Nothing. Every account includes 20 monitors at no cost. If that ever changes, existing users will be told well in advance.