Monitoring for developers who want it set up before lunch
You don’t want another dashboard to babysit. Add a URL, pipe a heartbeat into your cron job, read status from the API when you need it, and get an alert in Slack or Discord only when something is actually broken.
StatusEagle for developers
Offers HTTP, TCP, UDP and heartbeat monitoring that takes minutes to set up, a Bearer-token REST API, webhooks, and an MCP server for AI assistants (in development).
What usually goes wrong
Side projects and production apps both need monitoring, but not a week of setup.
A cron job fails on a server you haven’t logged into for months.
You want status in your own tools (CI, a README, a chat bot), not only in someone’s UI.
You’ve been paged by a monitoring tool that couldn’t tell a blip from an outage.
A bad day, with StatusEagle running
Your side project’s nightly import job starts failing silently after an upstream API changes its response format. The heartbeat at the end of the job never arrives, and you get a Discord message at 06:00. Later that week, a deploy script checks GET /incidents/ongoing before shipping and waits, because the API monitor has an open incident from a bad config push that went out twenty minutes earlier.
An illustrative scenario based on common failure patterns, not a customer story.
How StatusEagle fits
Developer-first capabilities built for code-driven workflows, heartbeats, and AI integrations.
Cron job monitoring
One curl at the end of any job
API monitoring
Health endpoints with auth headers and body checks
Integrations
REST API, webhooks, Slack and Discord
MCP server
Ask your AI assistant what’s down (early access)
Status badges
Live status for your README (early access)
A starter monitoring setup
Here’s where we’d start: six checks that cover the failures teams like yours hit most. Add more as you learn where things break.
| WHAT | MONITOR | PASSES WHEN |
|---|---|---|
| App | Website + SSL | 200 |
| API | API | 200 + "ok" |
| Postgres | TCP 5432 | Accepts connections |
| Nightly job | Cron heartbeat | Daily |
| CI deploy gate | REST API | No ongoing incidents |
| Alerts | Discord / Slack | Verified only |
./run-job.sh && curl -fsS -m 10 --retry 3 "$HEARTBEAT_URL"
curl -s https://api.statuseagle.com/v1/incidents/ongoing \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $STATUSEAGLE_API_KEY"
Which plan fits
Personal projects fit Free. For production, Base ($10/month) gives 60-second checks and 50 monitors. Every plan includes all monitor types, 3 locations and multi-location verification. Compare plans.
Your first monitor takes about two minutes.
Free plan: 10 monitors, 3 locations, 1 status page. No credit card.
Frequently asked questions for developers
Still deciding? Start monitoring free and verify your first service in ~2 minutes.
Yes, at https://api.statuseagle.com/v1 with Bearer-token auth: list monitors, a status overview and ongoing incidents.