1-minute uptime checks. Telegram-first alerts. SSL + DNS + content-change monitoring. Free for 1 monitor, $9/mo for 10. Built for founders who'd rather hear it from a bot than a customer.
Get Pro — $3/mo for 2mo → See how it worksEARLY10 pre-applied · Free tier: 1 monitor, no credit card
More than just up/down. We catch the slow-burn problems too.
5xx, 4xx, redirect loops, timeouts. The basics — fast.
P95 latency tracked. Alert if 2× baseline for 3 checks.
Heads-up 30, 7, 1 days out. Auto-renew Let's Encrypt? Still verify.
CSS selector or regex. Alert when "Sign in" disappears or pricing drops.
A/AAAA/MX records moved unexpectedly? You'll know in 60 seconds.
Probes from EU + US + APAC. False positives die.
Most monitors send email. We send to where you actually look in 30 seconds.
You're at dinner. Your site goes down. PingBot pings the URL and gets a 503. Within 60 seconds, a Telegram message lands on your phone with the status code, response body snippet, and "still down" auto-bumps every 5 minutes until you acknowledge.
Slack, Discord, generic webhook, and email available too. You pick where the alert lands.
Same job. Different price. Telegram-first.
| PingBot | UptimeRobot | BetterStack | Pingdom | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $9/mo | $7/mo | $29/mo | $15/mo |
| Free tier monitors | 1 | 50 (5-min) | 10 | 1 |
| Min check interval (Pro) | 1 min | 1 min | 30 sec | 1 min |
| Telegram alerts | ✓ first-class | via Zapier | ✓ | via Zapier |
| SSL expiry alerts | ✓ | Paid add-on | ✓ | ✓ |
| Content-change selector | ✓ | — | — | Keyword only |
| Status page (Pro) | ✓ | Add-on $9 | ✓ | $$$$ enterprise |
Free forever for 1 monitor. EARLY10 on the Pro link → $3/mo for 2 months.
Side project
Indie SaaS that ships
Scaling indie team
Stuff you'll ask.
Honest answer: UptimeRobot's free tier is the most generous in the market — 50 monitors at 5-minute intervals. We can't beat that on the free volume. We win on three things: (1) Telegram-first alerts with /ack threading, (2) content-change detection via CSS selector or regex (UptimeRobot wants $$ for keyword), (3) we treat the dashboard as something a founder actually uses daily, not an enterprise NOC tool. If you're happy with 50 monitors + email + no-frills, stay on UptimeRobot. If you want one polished tool that fits the indie founder workflow, that's us.
First check fails → we run 2 confirmation probes from a different region within 30 seconds. If those also fail → alert fires. Telegram first (fastest), then email if no /ack within 5 minutes, then Slack/Discord on your configured channels. Auto re-alerts every 5 minutes for first 30 min, then every 15 min, until you /ack or the monitor recovers.
Yes. Set a custom HTTP header (e.g. Authorization: Bearer XXX) or basic auth. We never store the response body itself — only the status code, timing, and the CSS-selector match you asked us to track.
Three real use cases: (1) Your "Login" button is supposed to be visible — selector #login-btn alert if it disappears. (2) A pricing page should always say "Free" — regex alert if word vanishes (catches accidental staging deploys). (3) A vendor changed your API docs URL — selector on your competitor's "Pricing" page alerts you to changes.
Never. We only share if you explicitly publish a status page. Internal data stays on our infra (Postgres + 1-year retention on Pro, 90-day on free). GDPR-compliant. Export-or-delete in one click.
Dashboard → Billing → Cancel. One click. Active monitors keep running until end of billing cycle. After that they pause but data stays for 30 days for export. No retention pop-ups.
5 early-user spots today · $3/mo for 2 months · code EARLY10 pre-applied
PingBot is in private beta — uptime monitoring with 60s checks and instant email alerts. First 50 invites get EARLY10 ($3/mo first 2 months).