We're a team of 5 people who have been working together in various projects in the past 15 years. The thing that always annoyed us about uptime monitoring is the pricing. Once you want lots of sites checked every minute you're on some big plan, then you pay extra per seat, extra for status pages, and so on. So we built our own, and now it's open to everyone. It's called PingWise. We already use it for our own projects and our customers. Pricing works per check instead of per plan. Every account gets 650k free checks a month, which is roughly 75 sites every 5 minutes, no card. If you need more you buy a prepaid pack (from €5), no subscription. Status pages, team members and all the alert channels are just included. The other thing we cared about was false alarms. A lot of monitors call a site down when one or two locations fail, so one bad route between a probe and your server can wake you up for nothing. We have 15 probes in 15 cities on 6 continents (5 different providers). When one of them sees a failure, all the healthy ones re-check right away, and it only counts as down when about two thirds agree, from at least 3 continents and 3 networks, twice in a row. That takes about a minute. If only one region fails you see it as a partial outage, it just doesn't page you as "down". Something we re testing right now: each monitor gets a "where your visitors are" continent (we guess it from where the site is hosted, you can change it). If nearly all probes on that continent see it down, you get paged even if the rest of the world can still reach it. It's been running in shadow mode since 27 Oct and I'll switch it on once the data and a proper test back it up, hopefully in November. Europe and North America first, that's where we have enough probes. Other stuff: HTTP/keyword, SSL expiry, ping, TCP, DNS, cron heartbeats, notes on monitors that show up in the alert, an API, and alerts to email, Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, ntfy, Pushover, PagerDuty or webhooks. You can import from UptimeRobot, updown.io, Uptime Kuma or a CSV, and optionally run both side by side for 14 days to see which of your old alerts were real. If you just want to poke at it, there's a check from all 15 cities without signing up: https://pingwise.com/check/ Things I'd really like opinions on: does "most probes have to agree" sound trustworthy to you, or like it'll miss real outages? is pay-per-check easy to understand or would you rather just see a plan? what would actually make you switch from whatever you use now? I'm the one who built it, so ask me anything about how the probes vote. Thanks! Alex   submitted by   /u/AliveKing9895 [link]   [comments]