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Pinghawk — Know Why APIs Break
See exactly what happened at the moment your API failed
When your API fails, Pinghawk shows exactly what happened — at the moment it failed. Instead of a generic “API is down” alert, it records DNS, TLS, TTFB, and the response body — so you know why it failed, not just that it failed. It captures multiple snapshots across failures and catches silent issues like cron jobs and SSL expiry. Free during beta — would love your feedback if this solves a real pain for you.
Hey everyone - I’m Riyon, the solo maker of Pinghawk 👋
I built this after hitting the same problem over and over: you get an alert that an API is down… but by the time you check, everything’s working again - and there’s no useful context.
Most tools tell you something failed. They don’t tell you why.
Pinghawk captures what actually happened at the exact moment of failure - DNS timing, TLS handshake, TTFB, and even the response body - so you’re not guessing after recovery.
Example: your API returns a 502 at 3am.
DNS ✓ TLS ✓ — your server responded, but the upstream gateway timed out.
You immediately know where to look.
It also captures multiple snapshots across consecutive failures, so you can see how an issue develops, not just a single moment.
That gap between “it failed” and “why it failed” is where most debugging time goes.
"The gap between 'the API timed out' and 'why it timed out' is the biggest time-sink in CI/CD pipelines. [...] Capturing the exact TTFB, DNS, and TLS phases at the exact moment of failure — before the CI teardown — is brilliant. It turns a useless 500 error into actionable evidence." — SDET, via CoderLegion
That’s exactly what I wanted to fix.
It’s still early and free during beta. If you’ve ever had an “it’s already working again” moment, I’d love your feedback.
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“See exactly what happened at the moment your API failed”
Pinghawk — Know Why APIs Break was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. When your API fails, Pinghawk shows exactly what happened — at the moment it failed. Instead of a generic “API is down” alert, it records DNS, TLS, TTFB, and the response body — so you know why it failed, not just that it failed. It captures multiple snapshots across failures and catches silent issues like cron jobs and SSL expiry. Free during beta — would love your feedback if this solves a real pain for you.
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Riyon Sebastian
Hey everyone - I’m Riyon, the solo maker of Pinghawk 👋
I built this after hitting the same problem over and over:
you get an alert that an API is down… but by the time you check, everything’s working again - and there’s no useful context.
Most tools tell you something failed.
They don’t tell you why.
Pinghawk captures what actually happened at the exact moment of failure - DNS timing, TLS handshake, TTFB, and even the response body - so you’re not guessing after recovery.
Example: your API returns a 502 at 3am.
DNS ✓ TLS ✓ — your server responded, but the upstream gateway timed out.
You immediately know where to look.
It also captures multiple snapshots across consecutive failures, so you can see how an issue develops, not just a single moment.
That gap between “it failed” and “why it failed” is where most debugging time goes.
That’s exactly what I wanted to fix.
It’s still early and free during beta. If you’ve ever had an “it’s already working again” moment, I’d love your feedback.
The alert already contains the answer.
Happy to answer anything 🙌