EU-hosted uptime and cron monitoring

WatchCat currently runs from these configured datacenters:

• Germany
• Finland

WatchCat's core infrastructure does not route monitoring traffic through US servers. There are two exceptions: payment processing is handled by Stripe (billing data only, not your monitoring data), and if you enable alert integrations — Slack, Discord, Telegram, Google Chat, or custom webhooks — those alerts route through the destination you choose, subject to that provider's own infrastructure.

Yes. Once you sign up, you can generate and sign a compliant DPA directly from your dashboard for your records.

WatchCat is built with the same mindset as the services it monitors: failure must be expected and contained.

Our infrastructure is redundant, health-checked, and monitored independently from customer checks. Core components run with failover in place, and critical paths are designed to degrade gracefully rather than silently fail.

If WatchCat itself experiences an incident, we treat it like any other outage—with internal alerts, post-incident review, and transparency. Monitoring the monitor is not optional.

In short: if something breaks, we know about it—and we tell you.

Alerts are typically delivered within seconds after a failure is confirmed.

Checks run continuously, and notifications are dispatched immediately once a monitor transitions into a failing state (after any configured confirmation or grace period). In practice, this means:

• detection → confirmation → notification happens very fast
• no artificial delays or batching

Actual delivery time also depends on the notification channel itself (email provider, Slack, webhook receiver, etc.), but WatchCat does not intentionally slow alerts down

Yes. While there is no one-click importer yet, migrating is straightforward.

Most users recreate their monitors manually in a few minutes, especially for HTTP checks and cron jobs. The concepts are familiar, and WatchCat avoids unnecessary complexity during setup.

Uptime checks run from European regions, optimized for EU-based services and customers.

• Germany
• Finland

This provides:

• realistic latency measurements for European users
• data residency aligned with EU expectations
• simpler compliance for GDPR-focused companies

Additional regions may be added in the future.

Not yet.

WatchCat currently focuses on fast detection and reliable delivery. On-call schedules and escalation policies are not currently supported.

Payments are handled securely via Stripe.

This means you can pay using:

• major credit and debit cards
• international payments without friction

Invoices, receipts, and subscription management are all handled through the Stripe billing portal, accessible directly from your account.

Monitoring is built on trust. Monthly billing keeps WatchCat simple, transparent, and easy to cancel — you stay because it works for you, not because you prepaid a year in advance.

No lock-in, no forgotten renewals.