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.
Your pigeon is on the perch.
Meet the flock.
Six breeds, each trained to check one thing. Send them out on your own schedule.
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.
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.
Free, because I like pigeons.
Pingeon is a personal project. Every account gets 20 monitors, checks every minute and email alerts, for nothing. Give it a URL and you'll have pigeons on duty in a minute.
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.
- Is it really free?
- Yes. It runs on a small server I pay for anyway. If that ever changes, you'll hear it from me first.