Beacon
Open Beacon

Know the minute a site goes down

Beacon checks every website, certificate and cron job we run, around the clock. When something breaks you get an email within a couple of minutes, and clients see a calm status page instead of an error.

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beacon / monitors

1 monitor is down

Up

11

Down

1

Paused

0

Uptime 24 h

99.94%

Main website

https://example-shop.com

100%

Checkout API

https://api.example-shop.com/health

97.21%

SSL certificate

example-shop.com:443

100%

Nightly backup

Waits for pings

100%

Why Beacon

One quiet tool that watches every site we run

Websites, APIs, certificates and backups in one list, checked every minute. You only hear from it when something actually needs you.

See it in action

Give every client a status page

Pick the monitors a client cares about and share one link. They see live status and 90 days of uptime, never the addresses or error messages behind it.

Build a status page

Live status

All systems operational

Website Operational
Online shop Operational
Customer portal Operational

From address to alert in four steps

Address

https://example.com

Start monitoring

01

Paste an address

A website, an API, a domain's certificate, a server port or a cron job.

10:41:02 OK · 200
10:42:02 OK · 200
10:43:01 Timed out

02

Checked every minute

Each monitor runs on its own timer, from every 30 seconds to once a day.

To: team@

Down: Checkout API

Timed out after 15s, 2 checks in a row

03

Confirmed, then alerted

A failure has to repeat before anyone gets an email, so blips don't wake you up.

Back up after 4 min

04

Recovered and recorded

The incident closes itself, you get a "back up" email and uptime history keeps score.

Everything that can break.
Checked on a timer.

Websites and APIs
Keywords on a page
SSL certificate expiry
Server ports (TCP)
Cron jobs and backups
Public status pages

Questions the team will ask

How quickly will I hear about an outage?

Most monitors are checked every minute. A failure is re-checked within 20 seconds, so with the default of two failed checks in a row you'll usually get the email within one to two minutes.

Who gets the alerts?

Everyone on the Team page. Each person gets one email when a monitor goes down and one when it comes back, never a stream of repeats.

What counts as down?

No answer before the timeout, an error status (4xx or 5xx), a missing keyword, a certificate that is invalid or close to expiry, or a cron job that didn't check in on time.

What can clients see on a status page?

The names you give the monitors, whether each is up right now, and daily uptime for the last 90 days. Addresses and error messages stay private.

What if the server running Beacon goes down?

Beacon can ping an outside service every minute. If the pings stop, that service emails you, so even a dead server gets noticed.

How long is history kept?

Every individual check is kept for 30 days. Daily uptime totals and incidents are kept for good.

Watch everything.
Sleep anyway.

Response time

Uptime

99.98%

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