Wakeful

What it does

Wakeful watches cron jobs, SSL certs, DNS records, and HTTP endpoints, and alerts you the moment something breaks. Most tools either only do HTTP pings, or bundle in status pages and incident management at a price that doesn't fit a solo dev's side project. Wakeful keeps it simple: cron heartbeat pings, SSL expiry alerts, DNS change detection, and HTTP checks. Alerts via email, Discord, Telegram, or webhook. Free tier: 3 monitors, 5-min checks, no card required.

Monitoring for cron jobs, SSL certificates, DNS records, and HTTP endpoints. Get told when something stops working.

Wakeful watches cron jobs, SSL certificates, DNS records, and HTTP endpoints, and tells you when one of them breaks. Built by one developer who needed to keep an eye on their own API. Alerts go to email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, or LINE. Outages get grouped into incidents you can annotate afterwards, and you can publish a read-only status page for your own users. Start free. Upgrading happens from settings once you're signed in, billed through Stripe. I kept finding out that a backup job had been silently failing for a week, or that a certificate expired over a weekend. I wanted something small that would just tell me. This is that, and it's early — a side project, not a company. If it…from wakeful.dev

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