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Downdar watches your websites, APIs, ports, SSL certs, and DNS from 6+ global checkpoints, and pages you the second something breaks. Ping-based heartbeats catch cron jobs and background tasks that fail silently. Alerts hit Slack, Discord, Telegram, Teams, webhook, or email, with automatic recovery notices. Embeddable status pages keep customers in the loop without extra design work. Free for 30 days, plans start at $9/month.
Love that ping-based heartbeat idea for catching silent cron failures, that is a gap most uptime monitors leave wide open and you clearly thought it through. Six global checkpoints at this price point is solid too.
Ping-based heartbeats are a nice touch for catching silent cron failures. One thing I'd love to see is the ability to group related monitors into an incident, so a single Slack alert tells me it's one root cause affecting three services instead of three separate pings I have to mentally connect. Would save real time during outages.
Hey everyone, Steven here.
I've been building and running my own sites and tools for about 18 years, and downtime has burned me more than once, usually found out from a customer email instead of my own dashboard. I got tired of stitching together separate tools for uptime, SSL expiry, and cron job failures, so I built one for myself. Downdar is that tool, cleaned up and made public.
The part I cared about most was cron and background job monitoring. Most uptime tools only check if your site responds. They don't tell you when a nightly backup or billing job just quietly stops running. Downdar gives you a ping URL, your job calls it once per run, and you get alerted the moment a run is missed or late. No agent, no library, just a curl command.
Everything gets verified from 6+ global checkpoints before an alert fires, so a single region blip doesn't wake you up at 3am for nothing. Alerts go to email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Teams, or a webhook, and status pages can be embedded right on your own site with a single iframe.
Everything in the dashboard is also available through the API: create and manage monitors, heartbeats, groups, tags, status pages, and alert channels, all programmatically. Billing and account settings are kept out of API scope on purpose, for safety. If you want to spin up monitoring as part of your own deploy pipeline or provisioning scripts, you can do it without touching the UI.
Would love any feedback, especially on the heartbeat monitoring since that's the part I use the most myself. Happy to answer questions about check intervals, alerting, or pricing.
About Downdar on Product Hunt
“Uptime, cron & SSL monitoring in one dashboard”
Downdar was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #89 on the daily leaderboard. Downdar watches your websites, APIs, ports, SSL certs, and DNS from 6+ global checkpoints, and pages you the second something breaks. Ping-based heartbeats catch cron jobs and background tasks that fail silently. Alerts hit Slack, Discord, Telegram, Teams, webhook, or email, with automatic recovery notices. Embeddable status pages keep customers in the loop without extra design work. Free for 30 days, plans start at $9/month.
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Love that ping-based heartbeat idea for catching silent cron failures, that is a gap most uptime monitors leave wide open and you clearly thought it through. Six global checkpoints at this price point is solid too.