SaaS Application Monitoring

Logging tools like Datadog or Sentry track errors inside your application. But they can't tell you when the application itself is unreachable — a DNS failure, load balancer crash, or cloud provider outage won't generate application logs. External uptime monitoring checks from outside your infrastructure, catching the failures your internal tools miss.

StatusPing provides a hosted status page at a unique URL that you can share with customers. It shows real-time status for all your monitors. The free tier includes the status page — no Pro upgrade needed. Custom domains for status pages are on our roadmap.

Start with the critical path: login page, main dashboard, primary API endpoint, and any webhook receivers. That's typically 4 monitors. Add important integrations (Stripe, email provider) with your remaining free monitors. You don't need to monitor every route — focus on the ones users hit most and the ones that make you money.

StatusPing tracks response latency for every check and displays trends on your dashboard. While alerts currently trigger on downtime (non-2xx responses or timeouts), the latency data helps you spot performance degradation before it becomes an outage. Pro users get 1-minute resolution latency data.

StatusPing runs on distributed infrastructure and confirms downtime with retry checks before alerting to minimize false positives. For a bootstrapped SaaS or small team, it's a practical choice — you get 10 free monitors with Slack/Discord/email alerts, which covers the essentials. Enterprise teams often pair it with their existing observability stack as an external check layer.