Healthchecks.io is a product of SIA Monkey See Monkey Do, currently a one-man software and consulting company. The one man is Pēteris Caune, a long time Python developer from Valmiera, Latvia. Twitter, Github.
Healthchecks.io is an open-source project. The code is on GitHub. It has BSD license and is accepting contributions.
Here are a few metrics about the service (updated manually, last updated: April 8, 2021).
5 | years in business |
13 700 | free accounts |
30 | open source & non-profit accounts |
308 | paying accounts |
5 400 | USD monthly recurring revenue |
71 300 | checks (services monitored) |
21 200 000 | pings processed per day |
23 000 | notifications sent per day |
The service currently runs on Hetzner bare metal servers, with healthy excess capacity to handle traffic spikes. The app servers are load-balanced. The PostgreSQL database has a hot standby as well as full daily backups to S3. The database fail-over process is manual, and the ops team consists of a single person, so multi-hour or even multi-day outages are possible!
In case of incidents, we post status updates to our status page, status.healthchecks.io, and our Twitter account, @healthchecks_io.
While we can only guarantee the best effort availability, in practice, the availability has exceeded 99.9% since the service publicly launched in July 2015.
Email: contact@healthchecks.io
Twitter: @healthchecks_io
Mailing address:
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