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Ping it. Hawk it. Now in private beta.

Know when your
API goes down
before your users do.

Lightweight uptime monitoring built for developers who ship.
Set up in 60 seconds. No dashboards to configure.
Just alerts that arrive before your users complain.

Monitoring tells you something broke.
Pinghawk tells you why.

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No credit card required · Free plan available · First 100 users get 3 months free

Why this exists
👋
Built out of frustration, not a business plan. I was running a small SaaS and paying $40/month for a monitoring tool that took an afternoon to configure and still sent me false alerts at 2am. The cheaper tools were too basic. The good tools were priced for teams with budgets I didn't have. So I built Pinghawk — the tool I actually wanted. Dead-simple setup, alerts that mean something, priced for people who ship things themselves. — The Pinghawk founder

Everything at a
glance.

All your endpoints in one clean view. Response times, uptime history, and active incidents — no digging required.

app.pinghawk.io/monitors
Your Monitors Last checked 23s ago
api.myapp.io/health
99.98%142ms
api.myapp.io/users
99.91%891ms
api.myapp.io/payments
98.2%timeout
api.myapp.io/webhooks
100%67ms
1 active incident · payments endpoint · 18 min ago

Set up in under
60 seconds.

No agents to install. No SDKs. No YAML files. Paste a URL and you're monitoring.

01
Add your endpoint

Paste any URL. Set your check interval. Done. No code changes needed.

02
We ping it constantly

Pinghawk checks your endpoint every 30s–5min from multiple regions worldwide.

03
Get alerted instantly

When something breaks, you hear about it via email, Slack, or webhook — within 60 seconds.

04
Share a status page

A public, branded status page your users can bookmark. Fewer support emails guaranteed.

Built different.
On purpose.

Most monitoring tools were designed for ops teams with dedicated dashboards and weekly planning meetings. Pinghawk was designed for one developer, on a Friday night, who just wants to know if their thing is still running — and exactly why it stopped.

⚡ 60-second setup

Paste a URL. Pick an interval. Done. No agents, no SDKs, no YAML. If it takes longer than a minute, we failed.

🔕 Alerts that mean something

3 consecutive failures before we notify you. No 3am alerts for a server that restarted itself. Once you know, we go quiet until it's resolved.

💸 Priced for real projects

$9/month for serious monitoring. Not $300. Not per-seat. Not "contact sales." A price you can justify before your product makes a cent.

Built for developers
who ship fast.

Every feature earns its place. Nothing is there for the marketing page — it's there because you'll actually use it.

🦅 Hawk Mode — Pinghawk's signature feature
Don't just know it's down.
Know why.

Every monitoring tool tells you your API is down. Pinghawk goes further — automatically capturing the full forensic picture at the exact moment of failure, so by the time the alert reaches you, the evidence is already waiting.

DNS lookup time — was the failure DNS-related or server-side?
TLS handshake duration — detect SSL/certificate issues instantly
Time to first byte — reveals slow databases and overloaded servers
Response body (first 2kb) — your API's own error message, captured automatically
3 snapshots per incident — captures the progression, not just a single moment
🦅 SNAPSHOT #1 — 14:03:47 UTCap-south · Mumbai
dns_lookup340ms ↑ abnormal
tls_handshake48ms
ttfb28,400ms ↑ critical
response_body{"error":"db pool exhausted"}
🦅 SNAPSHOT #2 — 14:04:17 UTCus-east · Virginia
dns_lookup12ms
tls_handshake45ms
ttfb30,000ms ↑ critical
response_body{"error":"db pool exhausted"}
🦅 INCIDENT SUMMARY — alert sent after 3rd failure
DNS normal from us-east · abnormal from ap-south
Server responding but database pool exhausted globally
→ Probable cause: database connection limit reached
Response time tracking
Catch slowdowns
before they become outages.

Pinghawk tracks latency trends across all your endpoints continuously. When an API starts creeping toward timeout territory, you're flagged before your users notice anything wrong.

RESPONSE TIMES — LAST 24H
/health
142ms
/users
891ms
/payments
timeout
/webhooks
67ms
⚠ /users degraded — alert sent 4 min ago
Multi-region checks

Verify from 3 global regions simultaneously. If two agree it's down, it's down. No false alarms from local network blips.

SSL certificate alerts

Warned 30, 14, and 7 days before expiry. Never get caught by a certificate error in production again.

Cron job monitoring

Dead man's switch for your scheduled jobs. Know immediately when a backup, sync, or cleanup task silently fails to run.

Public status pages

Shareable, branded pages your customers can bookmark. They stay informed, you get fewer "is it down?" support messages.

3 consecutive failures rule

We don't alert on the first blip. Pinghawk waits for 3 failures in a row before notifying you — cutting alert noise by ~80%.

Timeout protection

Every check has a hard 10-second timeout. A hanging server can't freeze your monitoring. One broken endpoint never delays the rest.

COMING PHASE 2
Smart API Validation

Check more than status codes. Define expected response shapes — if your API returns wrong data, Pinghawk alerts before your users hit the bug.

COMING PHASE 2
Developer CLI

Add and manage monitors without leaving your terminal. pinghawk monitor add https://api.example.com — and you're done.

COMING PHASE 3
Synthetic Workflows

Test full user flows end-to-end — Login → Create Order → Pay → Confirm. If any step breaks, you know which one and why.

Context-rich alerts.
Zero false positives.

Reach you wherever you actually are — Slack, Discord, email, webhook, or SMS. Every alert includes the endpoint, response time, region data, and a direct incident link so you can act without logging in first.

Email
Slack
Discord
Webhook
SMS Pro
INCIDENT DETECTED 2 min ago
endpointapi.myapp.io/payments
statusDOWN ✗
errorConnection timeout
response_time30,000ms
regionus-east, eu-west, ap-south
last_ok14:22:01 UTC ✓
incident→ pinghawk.io/i/4821

Simple, honest
pricing.

No per-seat fees. No hidden limits. Priced for developers, not enterprise procurement committees.

Free
$0
forever
  • 5 monitors
  • 5-minute check interval
  • Email alerts only
  • 7-day history
  • Public status page
Pro
$29/mo
billed monthly
  • 100 monitors
  • 30-second check interval
  • Multi-region checks
  • 90-day history
  • Team seats (3 included)
  • SMS alerts
  • API access

Stop finding out about downtime
from your users.

Join the waitlist. First 100 users get 3 months of the Indie plan free.

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