Product

Uptime and cron monitoring without complexity

Monitor HTTP services and scheduled jobs from EU-hosted infrastructure. Confirmation logic filters false positives. Every alert delivery is tracked. External alert delivery uses the providers you configure.

EU flag Hosted in the EU
GDPR-friendly by design
No US cloud in the core monitoring path

Technical flow

How it works in detail

The operational path behind setup, detection, and recovery.

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Create your first uptime monitor Create your first cron monitor

Two monitor types

  • Uptime monitors check websites, APIs, and HTTP services at regular intervals.
  • Cron monitors wait for heartbeats from scheduled jobs and background tasks.

Shared incident flow

  • Both monitor types create incidents when Watchcat decides something is failing.
  • Alerts are sent from incidents, then recovery alerts are sent when the incident is resolved.

History and retention

  • Check results, incidents, and alert delivery history are stored so you can review what happened.
  • Data retention depends on the active plan.

Why it matters

  • Detect outages before users notice — checks run as often as every minute from EU locations
  • Cron jobs fail silently — heartbeat monitoring catches missing and late runs
  • Confirmation logic filters transient failures before anyone gets paged
  • Core monitoring data stays in the EU — simpler GDPR compliance for EU-focused teams

Typical use cases

  • A Next.js API route that needs to alert the team before users notice errors
  • A nightly data sync that quietly stops running and breaks reports by morning
  • An internal admin panel where no users will ever report a problem

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