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, and alerts leave the EU only through the providers you configure.
Hosted in the EU
GDPR-friendly by design
Core monitoring data stays in the EU
Uptime monitoring
HTTP checks against websites, APIs, and services at the interval you choose, evaluated against the rules you set.
Cron monitoring
Heartbeats from scheduled jobs and background tasks, with grace periods, start/end tracking, and an execution log.
Alerts and integrations
Notification channels that route incidents to Slack, Discord, Telegram, Google Chat, webhooks, or email, with every delivery tracked.
Automation and API
An MCP server and a REST API, so agents and scripts manage the same monitors, channels, and status pages as the UI.
Technical flow
How it works in detail
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
Fewer surprises, less noise
- 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 is alerted
- Core monitoring data stays in the EU — simpler GDPR compliance for EU-focused teams
Use cases
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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