Monitoring for Developers

Your APIs, Cron Jobs & Services — Covered

Monitor production endpoints with custom HTTP requests, catch failed cron jobs with heartbeats, and integrate everything via REST API and webhooks.

 

Monitoring Should Fit Your Workflow, Not Fight It

You ship code fast. Your monitoring should keep up. Updown Monitor exposes every feature through a REST API and supports webhooks, custom HTTP requests, and language-agnostic heartbeats — so monitoring becomes code, not a chore.

 

Built for Developer Workflows

REST API for Everything

Create, update, and remove monitors programmatically. Deploy monitoring as code with Terraform or CI pipelines.

Custom HTTP Requests

Monitor APIs with custom methods, headers, bearer tokens, request bodies, and response validation.

Heartbeats for Background Jobs

One-line curl to ping us from any cron job, queue worker, or long-running process. Instant alerts on failure.

Webhooks In & Out

Send webhooks on incidents to your own services. Automate runbook execution or PagerDuty handoffs.

DNS & SSL Monitoring

Detect accidental DNS changes and SSL expiry before they take down your staging or prod environments.

CSV & JSON Exports

Export incident and monitor data for reports, dashboards, or offline analysis.

 

Common Developer Scenarios

Production API Monitoring

POST sample payloads, validate JSON responses, alert when downstream services break.

Background Workers

Heartbeat from queue consumers and daemons. Catch crashes that tests would never find.

Infrastructure as Code

Create monitors alongside your Terraform/Pulumi stacks using the REST API.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Every feature — monitors, heartbeats, status pages, notification handlers, incidents — is available via REST API with bearer-token authentication.

Add curl -s https://your-heartbeat-url at the end of your command. No SDK, no dependencies — works in any language or shell.

Yes. Configure a webhook notification handler to POST incident data to your own endpoint for automation.

Yes. Set custom request headers, bearer tokens, or HTTP basic auth per monitor.

Yes. Because the API is pure REST with a bearer token, you can use it from any CI/CD pipeline, Terraform provider, or shell script.