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We build monitoring for people who ship

Webalert started because we were tired of finding out about downtime from angry customers instead of our own tools. We built the monitoring service we wished existed — fast to set up, fast to alert, and honest enough to share with the people who rely on your product.

Our story

Born from a 3 a.m. outage nobody noticed

In early 2025 we were running SaaS products and client projects. One night, a database migration broke a production API silently — no errors in the logs, just a 502 that our existing monitoring tool didn't catch for over an hour. By the time a customer DM'd us, the damage was done: lost data, lost trust, and a support queue that took days to clear.

That was the "aha" moment. We looked at what was out there: enterprise tools that required a week to configure, free tools that checked every 10 minutes and called it "monitoring," and everything in between that nickel-and-dimed on SMS credits. None of them let you go from sign-up to real coverage in under five minutes.

So we built Webalert. We check every minute by default on paid plans because 10-minute gaps miss real incidents. We alert within 30 seconds because 5-minute notification delays defeat the purpose. We include status pages on every plan because transparency shouldn't be a premium feature. And we price it so a solo developer can afford it without an expense report.

What we believe

Principles, not platitudes

1-minute checks, not 10
Ten-minute intervals miss real incidents. We default to 1-minute checks on paid plans because the first minute of an outage is when you can still save it.
Alerts in seconds, not minutes
Our median alert latency is under 30 seconds. A monitoring tool that takes 5 minutes to page you is just a very expensive log viewer.
Status pages on every plan
Transparency during incidents shouldn't be locked behind an enterprise tier. Every Webalert account gets a public status page from day one.
Free tier that actually works
3 monitors, email & Slack alerts, SSL expiry warnings, and a status page — permanently free, no credit card, no 14-day cutoff. If it's good enough for a side project, it's good enough to keep forever.

Milestones

From side project to production

  1. Early 2025

    Founded

    First commit after the database outage that started it all. HTTP monitoring and email alerts only.

  2. Mid 2025

    Public launch

    Status pages, SSL monitoring, and Slack integration shipped. First paying customers within the first week.

  3. Late 2025

    Infrastructure monitoring

    TCP, DNS, Ping, and heartbeat checks added. Content change detection and incident management launched.

  4. 2026

    750+ teams, 1M+ daily checks

    Smart alerting (anomaly detection, flap suppression, alert correlation), SLA tracking, on-call schedules, and SEO cloaking detection.

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