One connected workflow
A confirmed outage opens an incident, alerts your channels, and updates the services you publish.
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A clear view.
A calmer response.
Watch your services, catch confirmed outages, and keep customers in the loop. Explore the tools that connect every step.
3 free monitors · No card · No trial period
View full size Confirmed before alerting
Outages and recoveries need a second check after 30 seconds. One failed check does not open an incident.
Free without a trial
3 monitors, one public status page, and email and Slack alerts. No card and no trial clock.
Know how your services are doing.
Availability, response times, and upcoming expirations in one view. Check history gives you the detail behind each result.
Website monitoring
Check public HTTP and HTTPS services hourly on Free, or every 5 minutes on Premium. See status codes and response times; checks have a 10-second timeout.
API and content checks
Choose GET or HEAD, expected status codes, a required response keyword, and up to 10 custom headers for authenticated endpoints.
SSL monitoring
Verify certificate trust, hostname, and validity. See the expiry countdown and get a warning 1–60 days before renewal is due.
Port monitoringPremium
Check public TCP connections and UDP ports. A UDP check can send a payload and require a reply; a connection check does not validate application behavior.
Domain monitoringPremium
Daily registration lookups warn 1–60 days before domain expiry and when the registrar changes.
Page speed monitoringPremium
A daily Google PageSpeed Insights measurement of the page as a phone loads it: the performance score and the Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS), with 90 days of history.
Slow response alerts
Set a threshold between 100 ms and 10 seconds. A successful check above it sends one alert, without counting as downtime.
Response history
A response-time chart and a table of each monitor’s latest 200 checks, with exact results and errors, plus 7, 30, and 90 days of uptime.
Check on demand
Run a monitor’s next check now instead of waiting for the schedule, up to once a minute per monitor.
Groups and pausing
Organize monitors into as many groups as you need. Pause a monitor during planned work; paused time is left out of its uptime.
The right alert. The right destination.
Receive confirmed outages and recoveries, slow response warnings, and expiry alerts. Follow each delivery and choose where each monitor sends its alerts.
Email
Your own address from the start. Other addresses confirm with an emailed link before they receive alerts.
Slack
Post alerts to a channel through a Slack incoming webhook.
WebhookPremium
Every alert as JSON to your HTTPS endpoint, signed with HMAC-SHA256 so you can verify the sender.
PushPremium
Alerts as notifications in your browser or on your phone, even with the dashboard closed. On iPhone and iPad, add cheapmonit to the Home Screen first.
On-callPremium
The person on call is emailed every alert during their turn.
Up to 20 channels per workspace. Test a destination and inspect delivery attempts; failed deliveries retry up to 10 times.
Set up routing and delivery
View full size A record of what happened. A clear next step.
Confirmed outages open incidents automatically. Follow recovery privately and share the context your customers need.
Automatic incidents
A confirmed outage opens an incident without manual triage. Repeated failures stay in the same incident.
Automatic resolution
A confirmed recovery closes the incident and records how long the outage lasted.
Private check details
Each incident keeps the failing check’s result and error, visible to your workspace only.
Public notes
Add a note of up to 500 characters to tell visitors what happened, on the status page and its feed.
Searchable history
Filter incidents by monitor and by ongoing or resolved.
AcknowledgementPremium
Take ownership in the dashboard or through an eligible email or Slack alert link. Record who responded and when, and stop further escalation. Acknowledgements stay private.
Time-weighted uptime
Availability is calculated from confirmed outage time, not from the number of failed checks.
View full size Keep everyone on the same page.
Publish the services you choose, with availability and incident history that update from your monitors. Private addresses and check errors stay in your workspace.
A public page per workspace
Publish the services you choose at your own link. Monitor addresses and check errors stay private.
Sections and components
Group services under headings and give each a public name, in the order you want.
Uptime history
7, 30, or 90 days of daily uptime, calculated from the monitors behind each component.
Incidents and announcements
Outages appear on their own, with an optional public note. Post an announcement that can expire by itself.
Status badge and incident feed
An embeddable SVG badge and an Atom feed for every page.
Several pages per workspacePremium
Up to 10 status pages in one workspace, each with its own link, services, access, and branding.
Password-protected pagesPremium
Keep a status page for staff or customers only, behind a password.
Custom brandingPremium
Your logo and accent color, with “Powered by cheapmonit” removed.
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Turn outage history into useful decisions.
See how quickly your team responds, track availability targets, and understand the downtime your error budget still allows.
MTTA and MTTR reportsPremium
Mean time to acknowledge and to resolve over 7, 30, or 90 days, for the workspace and for each monitor.
SLA targets and error budgetsPremium
Hold a monitor to 99% to 99.99% availability. See how much downtime the target still allows, and the burn rate of the last 24 hours.
Reports cover 7, 30, or 90 days. Availability and error budgets use observed time; paused and pending periods are excluded. Burn rate is reported, without triggering alerts.
Understand availability and error budgets
View full size Give each environment a home.
Separate production, staging, or a platform into its own workspace. Switch context without mixing monitors, alerts, incidents, or status pages.
Independent services
Each workspace has its own monitoring and response settings, plus one status page.
Access that fits your team Premium
Invite people to one workspace or all of them. Members have full access where they are invited.
One shared allowance
Free: 1 workspace and 3 monitors. Premium: up to 10 workspaces sharing 100 monitors, including paused ones.
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View full size Share the work. Know who is on it.
Arrange the responder rotation, reach backup responders, and keep a record of changes across your account.
On-call schedulingPremium
Rotate responders every 1–28 days across up to 10 schedules. The primary schedule receives alert emails; overrides cover time away and reminders prepare the next responder.
Escalation policiesPremium
Reach a backup schedule, a person, or everyone through up to five timed email steps. An acknowledgement stops further escalation.
MembersPremium
Invite up to 30 people by email. A member works in all of your workspaces, or only in the one you choose.
Alert routing
Every monitor alerts every active channel by default. Mute channels per monitor, or pause a channel altogether.
Audit log
Every change to your workspaces and account: who made it, what changed, and when.
Ticket supportPremium
Open a ticket from the dashboard and follow the replies there.
View full size A focused tool, with clear limits.
Checks run from one location against public addresses. Premium’s fastest interval is 5 minutes. Custom domains, heartbeat monitoring, and SMS are not available.
See everything not supported yet
These capabilities are unavailable on every plan. No release dates have been announced.
Monitoring
- Checks more often than every 5 minutes
- Checks from several locations; every check runs from one
- ICMP ping monitoring
- Cron job and heartbeat monitoring
- DNS record monitoring
- Alerts when page speed or a Core Web Vital gets worse; they are measured and shown
- POST requests, request bodies, and JSON field assertions
- Monitoring private networks; addresses must be public
Status pages
- Custom domains
- Maintenance windows and scheduled maintenance
- Incidents written by hand, and postmortems
- Email subscriptions for visitors
- Components fed by external status pages or metrics
- More than one status page per workspace
Incident response
- Acknowledging with a button inside Slack; the Slack alert links to a page that does it
- Escalation by Slack, webhook, push, SMS, or phone call; steps send email
- A separate escalation policy per monitor
- Alerts when an error budget burns too fast
- Calendar-month SLA periods and exported reports
Alert channels
- Microsoft Teams
- Discord
- PagerDuty and Opsgenie
- SMS and phone calls
- A native mobile app; push works through the browser or the installed web app
Automation and access
- API keys for a public API
- Terraform provider, or monitors as code
- Roles and permissions; every member has full access
- Single sign-on and two-factor sign-in
- Changing the account email or a workspace’s owner
How often are my monitors checked?
Once an hour on the free plan, and every 5 minutes on premium if you choose. A failure or recovery is confirmed by a second check 30 seconds later, and you can run a check on demand.
Where do the checks run from?
From a single location. Checks from several regions are not supported yet, so an outage is confirmed by a second check from the same place.
Can I customize my status page?
Yes. You choose the services, their public names, sections, and order, and can post an announcement. Password protection, your own logo and color, and removing “Powered by cheapmonit” are part of premium. Custom domains are not supported yet.
What notification channels are supported?
Email and Slack on every plan, up to 20 channels per workspace. Premium adds signed webhooks, push notifications to your browser or phone, and email to the person on call. Microsoft Teams, Discord, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, and SMS are not supported yet, and there is no native mobile app.
Can I monitor private endpoints?
No. Checks connect to public addresses only, and private, loopback, and reserved addresses are refused. An endpoint that needs credentials can be checked with custom request headers.
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