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Q: What is cloud monitoring and what does PingAnywhere monitor?

Cloud monitoring means continuously tracking the availability and responsiveness of cloud-hosted infrastructure, servers, and APIs. PingAnywhere covers everything with a URL or a schedule: APIs, websites, load balancers, serverless functions, container health endpoints, and recurring cron jobs, all from a single flat $19/month plan.

Q: How fast are the checks, and how do I avoid false alarms?

Every check runs every 30 seconds from six global edge regions. Three regions must independently agree that a service is down before an alert fires, so a single regional blip never wakes anyone up. Alerts reach Slack, Discord, or Teams in under 5 seconds.

Q: Do I need to install an agent or SDK?

No. Checks are external HTTP, TCP, and keyword probes. Nothing is installed on your servers. Cron jobs report with a single curl line, so there is no agent to keep updated and no library to pin before your next deploy.

Q: Is there a free uptime monitoring tier?

The entire product is free during the beta: unlimited monitors, unlimited cron heartbeats, and status pages included. Waitlist members lock $19/month forever at launch, with no per-check or per-seat meters.

Q: Can I use it as a server monitoring tool?

Yes. Point a check at any health endpoint and it becomes a server monitor: remote server monitoring, web server monitoring for Nginx or Apache, and system uptime monitoring for services on the box. Because probes come from outside your network, it keeps reporting through the exact failures that blind in-box agents, like dead uplinks and wedged kernels.

Q: Does it support multi-cloud and hybrid cloud setups?

Yes. AWS, GCP, and Azure endpoints are monitored side by side, and on-prem servers sit next to serverless functions without special configuration. Nothing gets installed, and there is no vendor lock-in: the same 30-second check works on a Raspberry Pi, an EC2 instance, or a Cloudflare Worker.

Q: How is this different from a free uptime monitoring tool or APM suite?

Free tools usually cap check frequency or monitor count, and APM suites bill per host or per metric. PingAnywhere does neither: 30-second checks on every monitor, one flat price, and alerts plus status pages in the same place. It watches from the outside the way your users experience it. Many teams run it alongside an APM tool.

Q: Can I migrate from UptimeRobot, Better Stack, or Pingdom?

Yes. Most teams migrate in about 2 minutes per endpoint: recreate the checks at 30 seconds, swap your webhook URLs, and run both tools in parallel for a week. Read the head-to-head UptimeRobot, Better Stack, and Pingdom comparisons for the details.

Keep your APIs, websites, and cron jobs online around the clock. We check your services from six global regions every 30 seconds. Our system instantly updates your public status page to keep your users informed when an issue occurs.

Free during beta $19/mo locked for early members

pinganywhere — live

terminal

$ curl -I https://api.pinganywhere.com/ping/ck_4f2a
HTTP/2 200
x-pa-region: iad
x-pa-latency: 41ms

$ pa cron touch nightly-billing
✓ heartbeat received · 12ms

edge ingestion 6/6 passing

iad · us-east 41ms
fra · eu-central 48ms
sin · ap-southeast 52ms
syd · oceania 57ms
gru · sa-east 63ms
nrt · ap-northeast 49ms

// why pinganywhere

Everything you need. Nothing you pay extra for.

Three primitives cover 95% of uptime work. No seats, no per-check meter, no “contact sales” tier.

01 p50 < 50ms

50ms Edge Checks

HTTP, TCP, and keyword checks from Cloudflare’s edge. Three regions must agree it’s down before we notify you.

iad · us-east 41ms
fra · eu-central 48ms
sin · ap-southeast 52ms

02 cron / heartbeat

Unified Cron Heartbeats

One HTTP token per job. Grace periods, missed-run alerts, and duration tracking for any scheduler.

*/15 * * * * curl …/cPAT_OK
✓ 200 · last run 14m ago

03 webhook · < 5s

Instant Webhooks

Signed payloads to Discord, Slack, and Teams in under 5 seconds, with retries and per-endpoint routing.

{ "event": "check.failed",
  "region": "iad",
  "sig": "hmac-sha256…" }

04 status pages

Public Status Pages built in seconds.

Showcase your uptime to users on custom subdomains or your own domain. Zero setup, automatically synced with your monitors.

status.yourdomain.com public

All Systems Operational

API 99.99%
Website 100%
Cron Workers 99.95%

// integrate in 30 seconds

One ping. That’s the SDK.

Nothing to install. If your runtime can make an HTTP request, it can report to PingAnywhere.

Works with cron, systemd timers, GitHub Actions, Celery, Sidekiq
Start / success / fail states via /start, /ok, /fail suffixes
Signed webhook payloads you can verify with one HMAC check

curl fetch

# Cron heartbeat — ping start, run script, ping success
*/15 * * * * curl -m 10 https://ping.pinganywhere.com/cPAT_OK/start && \
  ./run-billing.sh && \
  curl -m 10 https://ping.pinganywhere.com/cPAT_OK

# Uptime monitor — watch an endpoint every 30s
curl -X POST https://api.pinganywhere.com/v1/checks \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d {"url":"https://your-api.com/health","every":"30s"}

// Cron heartbeat — zero dependencies (start & success states)
await fetch("https://ping.pinganywhere.com/cPAT_OK/start");
// ... run your task logic here ...
await fetch("https://ping.pinganywhere.com/cPAT_OK");

// Uptime monitor — watch an endpoint every 30s
await fetch("https://api.pinganywhere.com/v1/checks", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer " + PA_KEY,
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    url: "https://your-api.com/health",
    every: "30s"
  }),
});

avg ingest latency 12ms p50

response headers live

HTTP/2 200
x-pa-region: iad
x-pa-latency: 41ms
x-pa-signature: hmac-sha256=9f2c…

p50 ingest: 47ms
regions: 6
payloads: HMAC-signed

// lightning-fast edge ingestion

Sub-50ms edge checks via global infrastructure.

Powered by Cloudflare Workers. Receive global ping telemetry instantly with regional headers (x-pa-region) and cryptographic HMAC security checks.

See the $19 flat plan

// pricing

One plan. $19 flat.

One price and no tiers to decode. If you outgrow it, we’ll tell you, and we won’t bill you.

PingAnywhere

monitoring, cron, and status pages

flat rate

$19 /mo, flat, forever

Beta is completely free. Join the waitlist now and lock $19/mo forever when we launch.

50 monitors + unlimited cron heartbeats
30-second check intervals from 6 regions
Discord, Slack & Teams webhooks included
Public status pages with custom domain
1-year incident history & postmortems
Unlimited seats, no overage charges, cancel any time

free during beta · $19/mo locked forever for beta users · students & OSS free

Switching from UptimeRobot, Better Stack, or Pingdom? Read the head-to-head comparisons.

// what pinganywhere does

Cloud monitoring software for APIs, servers, and cron jobs.

PingAnywhere is cloud monitoring for developers who would rather ship than babysit dashboards. It works as a website monitoring service for your APIs, storefronts, docs sites, and background jobs, and as an uptime monitor for anything else that answers on a URL or runs on a schedule. Checks hit every 30 seconds from six global regions, and three regions have to agree a service is down before an alert fires, so one regional blip never turns into a 3 a.m. page. When a failure is real, a signed payload reaches Slack, Discord, or Teams in under five seconds, and the public status page updates itself. Uptime percentages and a year of incident history are included, which is what usually ends the status-comms chore.

Server monitoring that works from the outside

Run bare metal, a VPS, or an autoscaling group and the same checks apply. Point this server monitoring tool at a health endpoint and it becomes a server uptime monitor, a web server monitoring check for Nginx or Apache, and a system uptime monitor for the services on the box. Probes originate outside your network, so it keeps reporting through the failures that blind in-box system monitoring: a dead uplink, a wedged kernel, a certificate nobody renewed. Add a keyword assertion on the response body and a 200 carrying an error payload pages you as well.

One price across multi-cloud and hybrid cloud

Infrastructure sprawls, so the tool spans it. Cloud monitoring solutions built for enterprises usually bill per host or per metric. This system monitoring software watches AWS, GCP, and Azure endpoints side by side, which makes it a natural fit for multi cloud monitoring and hybrid cloud monitoring where on-prem servers sit next to serverless functions. Nothing gets installed and no platform has to be standardised on: the same 30-second check runs on a Raspberry Pi, an EC2 instance, or a Cloudflare Worker, and containerised endpoints get the same treatment.

Free uptime monitoring while the beta runs

Everything is free during the beta, and waitlist members lock $19/month at launch. Teams comparing free website monitoring tools usually start here, because unlimited cron heartbeats, multi-region checks, and status pages are included from day one rather than held back behind tiers. A net uptime monitor for .NET needs two things: an HTTP endpoint to probe and a schedule to heartbeat. PingAnywhere speaks plain HTTP to both, so it works as a net uptime monitor for Windows services, Hangfire jobs, and ASP.NET Core APIs alike, and free uptime monitoring covers the whole thing.

Leaving a legacy monitor

Most people arrive from a bigger system and a bigger bill. Migrating means recreating checks at 30 seconds, repointing webhook URLs, and running both in parallel for a week. Most teams finish at about two minutes per endpoint. We publish the details in our Pingdom alternatives guide and the Better Stack and UptimeRobot comparisons. If uptime is one tab of a larger observability suite, keep the suite and run this alongside it.

Frequently asked questions

What is cloud monitoring and what does PingAnywhere monitor?

Cloud monitoring means continuously tracking the availability and responsiveness of cloud-hosted infrastructure, servers, and APIs. PingAnywhere covers everything with a URL or a schedule: APIs, websites, load balancers, serverless functions, container health endpoints, and recurring cron jobs, all from a single flat $19/month plan.

How fast are the checks, and how do I avoid false alarms?

Every check runs every 30 seconds from six global edge regions. Three regions must independently agree that a service is down before an alert fires, so a single regional blip never wakes anyone up. Alerts reach Slack, Discord, or Teams in under 5 seconds.

Do I need to install an agent or SDK?

No. Checks are external HTTP, TCP, and keyword probes. Nothing is installed on your servers. Cron jobs report with a single curl line, so there is no agent to keep updated and no library to pin before your next deploy.

Is there a free uptime monitoring tier?

The entire product is free during the beta: unlimited monitors, unlimited cron heartbeats, and status pages included. Waitlist members lock $19/month forever at launch, with no per-check or per-seat meters.

Can I use it as a server monitoring tool?

Yes. Point a check at any health endpoint and it becomes a server monitor: remote server monitoring, web server monitoring for Nginx or Apache, and system uptime monitoring for services on the box. Because probes come from outside your network, it keeps reporting through the exact failures that blind in-box agents, like dead uplinks and wedged kernels.

Does it support multi-cloud and hybrid cloud setups?

Yes. AWS, GCP, and Azure endpoints are monitored side by side, and on-prem servers sit next to serverless functions without special configuration. Nothing gets installed, and there is no vendor lock-in: the same 30-second check works on a Raspberry Pi, an EC2 instance, or a Cloudflare Worker.

How is this different from a free uptime monitoring tool or APM suite?

Free tools usually cap check frequency or monitor count, and APM suites bill per host or per metric. PingAnywhere does neither: 30-second checks on every monitor, one flat price, and alerts plus status pages in the same place. It watches from the outside the way your users experience it. Many teams run it alongside an APM tool.

Can I migrate from UptimeRobot, Better Stack, or Pingdom?

Yes. Most teams migrate in about 2 minutes per endpoint: recreate the checks at 30 seconds, swap your webhook URLs, and run both tools in parallel for a week. Read the head-to-head UptimeRobot, Better Stack, and Pingdom comparisons for the details.