Know what broke before your customers write in
Pointsman checks every service once a minute, pages the right person and keeps your status page honest.
For small software teams,
uptime checks, paging and a status page in one place.
From first failed check to a calm update
Three things happen before anyone has opened a laptop.
How it works,
in the order it happens.
1
Two regions agree
A check has to fail from two places, so one bad network path never wakes anyone.
2
The right person hears
Phone, Slack or email, following the schedule your team already set.
3
Customers get told
The status page updates and subscribers get a short, clear note.
One bad network path never wakes anyone
A check has to fail from two places before anything happens, so the alerts you do get are real.
Uptime checks,
every minute, from two regions.
Six regions
Checks rotate through six regions, so a local problem is seen for what it is.
Two must agree
A failure is retried elsewhere within seconds before anybody hears about it.
Ninety days back
Every bar on the board opens to show what happened on that day.
The write-up is finished before the meeting
Every check, page and update lands on one timeline, so nobody has to rebuild what happened from memory.
Incident timeline,
from the first failed check to the fix.
Opens by itself
The rule that fired sets the severity and pages whoever is on call.
Everyone catches up
Anyone joining late reads one timeline instead of asking in chat.
A draft in one click
Turn a closed incident into a written review with the timings filled in.
Customers hear from you first
Bars fill in once a minute. Hover one to read that day, or leave this open to catch a small simulated incident.
Status pages,
honest, and updated while you work.
Subscribers told
Each update reaches the page and every subscriber at the same moment.
Your own domain
Use status.yourcompany.com, with the certificate handled for you.
Public or private
Keep a page open to the world, or behind a password for internal teams.
The right person hears first, and only them
Phone, Slack or email, following the rota your team already agreed. If nobody answers, the next step runs by itself.
On-call schedules,
fair rotas with no extra seats to buy.
Rotas in minutes
Weekly or daily handovers, with swaps and overrides from your phone.
Four ways to reach you
Everyone chooses their own order of phone, SMS, Slack and email.
Quiet when it can be
Low severity waits until morning, so only real problems wake anyone.
Works with the team, the tools and the rota you already have
Setup,
a few minutes from sign-up to the first check.
Alerts go wherever your team already works
Connect the tools you use in a couple of clicks, and send anything else through a webhook.
Integrations,
fourteen to start with.
Slack
Microsoft Teams
PagerDuty
Opsgenie
Discord
GitHub
GitLab
Vercel
Cloudflare
Datadog
Grafana
Linear
Jira
Zapier
60 s
between every check
6
regions watching
2
regions must agree
90 days
of history on the board
Quieter nights, by their own account
Customers,
sample quotes to replace before you launch.
We used to find out about outages from support tickets. Now the ticket queue is the last to know.
Mira Okafor
Platform lead, Northline
The two-region check alone got us our nights back. The pager only goes off when something is really broken.
Tomas Berg
Founder, Fernhill Labs
Our first postmortem took ten minutes instead of an afternoon, because the timeline was already written.
Ana Ruiz
Head of support, Harbourline
Every plan gets all of it
Every feature,
on every plan, with nothing held back.
Nothing is sold separately, and nobody has to book a sales call.
SSL certificates
A warning weeks before one expires.
Domain expiry
Never lose a domain to a missed renewal.
Cron heartbeats
Know when a scheduled job stops running.
Keyword checks
Fail the check when a page loses key text.
DNS records
Catch a changed record the minute it happens.
Maintenance windows
Planned work stays off the alert list.
Subscriber emails
Customers hear from you first.
Custom domains
Host your status page on your own address.
Postmortem drafts
Turn any timeline into a written review.
Priced by the monitor
Every plan has the same features. Only the number of monitors changes.
Pricing,
by the monitor, with teammates free.
What every plan includes
Nothing is sold separately, and nobody has to book a sales call.
Monitoring
One-minute checks
Two-region confirmation
SSL and domain expiry
Keyword and DNS checks
Cron heartbeats
Alerts
On-call schedules
Escalation rules
Phone and SMS
Slack and email
Quiet hours
Incidents
Automatic timelines
Severity levels
Postmortem drafts
Maintenance windows
Audit log
Status pages
Unlimited pages
Custom domains
Subscriber emails
Private pages
Unlimited teammates
Free for 14 days, no card needed. Teammates are free and every plan has every feature.
Still weighing it up?
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How it compares
Pointsman vs Lampline
Lampline is a simple pinger. Pointsman adds schedules, incidents and status pages.
Pointsman vs Watchpost
Watchpost covers full observability. Pointsman does the uptime part with far less setup.
Pointsman vs Pingyard
Pingyard is free to start. Pointsman costs a little and retries before it pages.
Pointsman vs Statusmill
Statusmill makes status pages. Pointsman also runs the checks behind them.
Latest releases
Short answers
FAQ,
setup, alerts, privacy and billing.