Uptime monitoring of web applications has gotten expensive.

Well, there are many free tools out here but they almost always make us compromise on the basics.

• Most uptime monitoring applications give out free accounts but have a 5 minute check interval
• Adding a couple team mates is not possible in the free plan
• Only email notifications are included, even adding slack is a paid feature

5 minute checks is simply unacceptable in this day and age.

Imagine your web application being down for 5 whole minutes without you knowing. Even if you have even a few users, they’d know before you do that you application is down. Pretty embarrassing and not to forget business and reputation impacting

I understand why monitoring applications might be doing this. If I am a free user they don’t want to give me 30-second check intervals because it costs compute resources. Here is the problem, allow an indie hacker to monitor may be 3 or 5 end points instead of offering them 50. But give them 30 seconds check interval.

And why does adding one or two teammates require me to go to a paid plan? It doesn’t cost a whole lot of money to just add a couple of people., does it?

On the notifications side, generally only email notifications are provided with the 5 minute checks. Why not Slack or Telegram?

I understand giving SMS notifications is an expense and should be included only in the paid plans but it beats me as to why Slack notifications aren’t included.

I just hope someone builds something cheaper and launches it…until then I guess I need to live with the 5 minute check intervals.