Uptime, watched
from your own coast.
An uptime monitor that lives on a $5 box and stays out of your way. Six regions, sub-minute checks, real alerts. Non per-monitor pricing, no surprise bill the month you ship to production.
Watch from anywhereyou can rent a box.
Beacon's a 22 MB Go binary. Drop it on Hetzner ($4/mo), Fly ($2/mo a region), or your basement Pi — wherever you like. Each runner reports back to a central console, and the console can live on the same box. Median monthly bill across our customers: $11.40 of compute. Compare your line item.
HTTP / HTTPS
Status code, response time, body match, cert expiry, redirect chain. Per-region thresholds.
most commonTCP / UDP
Port reachability, banner match. For databases, mail, message queues.
handyDNS
Resolves the right answer, from the right resolver, in the right time. Catches propagation issues.
quiet heroHeartbeat
Inverted check. Your cron pings us every N min — if it stops, we alert. Catches silent failures.
cron killerBrowser flow
Headless Chrome runs a 4-step flow (login, click, assert). For checkouts, login pages, signups.
premiumSSL cert
Days remaining, issuer, SANs, OCSP. Yells at you 21 days before a cert dies.
preventativeWebhook out
Posts every state change to your own URL. Hatch and PagerDuty receive it natively.
integrationSynthetic API
Multi-step API flows with token threading. Asserts JSON shape and values.
belt and suspendersFifty-nine.
Watch as much as you want.
Per-monitor billing is the original sin of monitoring software. Beacon doesn't care if you have 4 monitors or 4,000. Pairs with Hatch — webhooks land on your status page automatically. Pairs with Cinder for the post-mortem.
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