Uptime monitoring for startups: set it up before your first outage
Early on, you don’t have an ops team; you have whoever is awake. StatusEagle gives you verified alerts and a status page for free, so your first outage is a ten-minute blip with a calm update, not a Twitter thread.
StatusEagle for startups
StatusEagle for startups offers free website, API, SSL, domain and cron monitoring for up to 10 monitors with a status page, and 60-second checks from $10 per month when you grow.
What usually goes wrong
Your first enterprise prospect asks “do you have a status page?”
The founder finds out the app was down from a user’s tweet.
The SSL certificate on the API subdomain expires the week of a launch.
Nobody noticed the nightly database backup had been failing for a month.
A bad day, with StatusEagle running
Two weeks after launch, the Let’s Encrypt renewal on your API subdomain fails because DNS moved to a new provider. The website monitor’s SSL check warns at 21 days, again at 7, and someone fixes the DNS challenge on a quiet afternoon instead of during a demo. The same week, the nightly backup heartbeat doesn’t arrive: the backup script ran out of disk. You find out the next morning, not the day you need a restore.
An illustrative scenario based on common failure patterns, not a customer story.
How StatusEagle fits
Website monitoring
App, marketing site, SSL and domain in one monitor
API monitoring
Your API health endpoint with an auth header
Cron job monitoring
Put a heartbeat on the backup today
Status pages
Free on every plan, on your own domain
Integrations
Slack or Discord alerts to wherever your team talks
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing site | Website + SSL + domain | 200 |
| App | Website | 200 or 302 |
| API health | API | 200 |
| Signup | Keyword | Form present |
| Database backup | Cron heartbeat | Daily |
| Status page | Status page | status.yourstartup.com |
Which plan fits
Start on Free (10 monitors, 5-minute checks, 1 status page). Move to Base ($10/month) when customers pay you, for 60-second checks and 5 team members. Every plan includes all monitor types, 3 locations and multi-location verification.
Your first monitor takes about two minutes.
Free plan: 10 monitors, 3 locations, 1 status page. No credit card.
Frequently asked questions for startups & founders
Still deciding? Start monitoring free and verify your first service in ~2 minutes.
Yes: 10 monitors, 5-minute checks from 3 locations, and 1 status page, with no credit card.