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Every other tool
Your API is down.
Pinghawk
DB pool exhausted.
Started 14:03 UTC.
All 3 regions affected.

The problem

When your API fails,
the worst part isn't
the outage.

It's figuring out what happened. By the time you SSH in, check the logs, try to reproduce — the evidence is gone. And you're debugging a ghost.

The usual debugging loop
01 Get paged. API is down.
02 SSH into server. Check logs.
03 Run curl manually. Try to reproduce.
04 Check all regions. Check DNS. Check TLS.
05 …it already resolved itself. Evidence gone.
⏱ Average time to root cause: 23–45 minutes
With Pinghawk: already in the alert.

The shift

So we flipped
the model.

Instead of checking after failure, Pinghawk captures everything at the exact moment it happens. No reproduction required. No guesswork. No SSH.

✗
Failure detected
Check fails. Pinghawk silently starts watching.
📸
Snapshot #1 captured
DNS, TLS, TTFB, response body — all recorded at failure moment.
📸
Snapshot #2 captured
Second failure. Multi-region comparison begins.
🦅
Alert sent — with the answer
3rd failure confirms outage. Alert fires with all 3 snapshots attached. Root cause included.
app.pinghawk.io/monitors
Your Monitors Last checked 23s ago
api.myapp.io/health
99.98%142ms
api.myapp.io/users
99.91%891ms
api.myapp.io/payments
98.2%timeout
1 active incident · payments · 🦅 snapshot ready

🦅 Hawk Mode

Built for one thing:
telling you exactly
why things broke.

At the moment of failure, Pinghawk automatically captures a full forensic snapshot from every region. No setup. It's always watching.

dns
DNS lookup time
Was it DNS-related or server-side? Know instantly without guessing.
tls
TLS handshake duration
Detect SSL and certificate issues the moment they occur.
ttfb
Time to first byte
Reveals slow databases and overloaded servers immediately.
body
Response body (first 2kb)
Your API's own error message, captured automatically at the exact moment of failure.
3×
3 snapshots per incident
Captures the progression across multiple regions — not just a single moment.
🦅 SNAPSHOT #1 — 14:03:47 UTC
ap-south · Mumbai
dns_lookup340ms ↑ abnormal
tls_handshake48ms
ttfb28,400ms ↑ critical
response_body{"error":"db pool exhausted"}
🦅 SNAPSHOT #2 — 14:04:17 UTC
us-east · Virginia
dns_lookup12ms
tls_handshake45ms
ttfb30,000ms ↑ critical
response_body{"error":"db pool exhausted"}
🦅 Alert sent — root cause identified
DNS normal from us-east, abnormal from ap-south
Database pool exhausted globally
→ Probable cause: connection limit reached

How it works

Set up in under
60 seconds.

No agents. No SDKs. No YAML. Paste a URL and you're monitoring.

01 — ADD
Paste your endpoint

Any URL. Set your check interval. Done. No code changes, no configuration files, no dashboards to configure before you can start.

02 — MONITOR
We watch constantly

Pinghawk checks your endpoint every 30s–5min from multiple regions. Three consecutive failures confirm an outage — eliminating ~80% of false alerts.

03 — ALERT
You get answers, not alarms

When something breaks, your alert includes the full Hawk Mode snapshot — DNS, TLS, TTFB, response body. You know the root cause before you open your laptop.

Features

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Every feature earns its place. If it's here, it's because you'll actually use it.

🌍
Multi-region checks

Verify from 3 global regions simultaneously. If two agree it's down, it's down. No false alarms from local network blips or transient issues.

🔒
SSL certificate alerts

Warned 30, 14, and 7 days before expiry. Never get caught by a certificate error in production again. Works for any domain.

⏰
Cron job monitoring

Dead man's switch for your scheduled jobs. Know immediately when a backup, sync, or cleanup task silently fails to run.

📋
Public status pages

Shareable, branded pages your customers can bookmark. They stay informed. You get fewer "is it down?" support messages.

🔕
Smart alert deduplication

One alert per incident. Pinghawk goes quiet once you know. Then sends a recovery alert when it comes back up. No repeat pings, no noise.

⚡
60-second setup

Paste a URL. Pick an interval. Done. No agents, no SDKs, no YAML. If setup takes more than a minute, we failed.

Alerting

Alerts that arrive
with answers.

Every alert includes the endpoint, response time, region data, and Hawk Mode snapshot — so you can act without logging in first.

Email
Slack
Discord
Webhook
SMS Pro
INCIDENT DETECTED 2 min ago
endpointapi.myapp.io/payments
statusDOWN ✗
errorDB pool exhausted
response_time30,000ms
regionsus-east, eu-west, ap-south
last_ok14:22:01 UTC ✓
hawk_snapshot→ pinghawk.io/i/4821

The difference

Not more monitoring.
Better monitoring.

Most tools stop at "something is wrong." Pinghawk answers the question that actually matters.

Without Pinghawk
ALERT: API DOWN
endpoint: api.myapp.io/payments
status: DOWN
💻 SSH into server
↓
📋 Check logs manually
↓
🔄 Try to reproduce
↓
👻 Evidence already gone
⏱ ~35 minutes to root cause
vs
With Pinghawk
🦅 INCIDENT + ROOT CAUSE
endpoint: api.myapp.io/payments
status: DOWN
dns_lookup: 340ms ↑ abnormal
ttfb: 28,400ms critical
response: "db pool exhausted"
regions: 3/3 affected
🦅 Root cause identified
Database connection pool exhausted.
Fix: increase pool size or restart DB.
⚡ Answer arrives with the alert

The alert used to be the beginning of the investigation.
With Pinghawk, it's the end.

Pricing

Simple, honest
pricing.

Priced for developers who ship things themselves. No per-seat fees. No hidden limits. No "contact sales."

🎉 All plans are FREE during beta No credit card required. Beta ends at launch — you'll get 30 days notice before any charges begin.
Free
$0
forever
  • 5 monitors
  • 5-minute check interval
  • Email alerts only
  • 7-day history
  • Public status page
  • "Powered by Pinghawk" branding
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Most popular
Indie
$9/mo
$0 during beta
then $9/mo after launch
  • 20 monitors
  • 1-minute check interval
  • Slack + webhook alerts
  • 30-day history
  • SSL certificate monitoring
  • Cron job monitoring
  • 🦅 Hawk Mode debug snapshots
  • Custom domain status page at launch
  • Remove Pinghawk branding at launch
Join the beta — it's free
Pro
$19/mo
$0 during beta
then $19/mo after launch
  • 100 monitors
  • 30-second check interval
  • Everything in Indie
  • Multi-region checks (3 regions) at launch
  • 90-day history
  • Up to 3 team members at launch
  • SMS alerts at launch
  • API access at launch
  • Priority support
Join the beta — it's free

On the roadmap

COMING PHASE 2
Smart API Validation

Check more than status codes. Define expected response shapes — alert before users hit a data bug.

COMING PHASE 2
Developer CLI

Add monitors without leaving your terminal. pinghawk add https://api.example.com

COMING PHASE 3
Synthetic Workflows

Test full user flows: Login → Order → Pay → Confirm. Know which step broke and exactly why.

👋
Built from a question, not a business plan.

While exploring monitoring tools for a side project, I noticed they all had the same blind spot: they'd tell you something was down, but never why. You'd get the alert at 3am and spend the next 45 minutes SSHing into servers, checking logs, running curl — only to find the issue had already resolved itself and the evidence was gone.

That question — why can't the alert include the answer? — became Pinghawk.
— The Pinghawk founder · hello@pinghawk.io

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