AWS uptime monitoring from outside Amazon Web Services
Monitor your AWS-hosted websites, APIs and services from independent infrastructure, so you can still get an alert when AWS has a bad day.
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Monitor your AWS infrastructure
Phare checks the services your users actually depend on. Monitor public AWS endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS or TCP, check them from multiple regions, and get alerted when something goes wrong.
Uptime monitoring for your AWS websites and APIs
Monitor public AWS endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS or TCP, check them from multiple regions, and get alerted when something goes wrong.
- Monitor websites and APIs running on EC2, ECS, or behind Application Load Balancers.
- Check availability every 30 seconds from 12 independent regions worldwide.
- Get alerted before an AWS-hosted SSL/TLS certificate expires.
Status pages for your AWS infrastructure
A public status page for your AWS-hosted services gives users one authoritative place to check operational status.
- Show real-time operational status across your AWS-hosted services and APIs.
- Publish live incident updates while your engineering team investigates disruptions.
- Host on your own custom domain with automated SSL certificates at zero extra cost.
Incidents and multi-channel alerting
Turn AWS outages into coordinated responses. Get notified immediately across your preferred channels without relying on the cloud having the incident.
- Get instant alerts delivered to Slack, Discord, Telegram, email, and webhooks.
- Schedule maintenance windows to avoid false alarms during planned AWS deployments.
- Invite your entire engineering and operations team with zero per-seat fees.
“Phare is really easy to set up and has been a part of our technological stack for a few years. The product already offers a lot, and is updated frequently with new features.”
Lucas Moisan
Tech Lead & Co-founder, Wizards Technologies
Industry: IT Services
Team size: 50-100
Uptime monitoring built to scale with you
Full access to core monitoring features with generous quotas and no credit card required.
- Website & API uptime monitoring
- Runs HTTP, TCP and ICMP ping checks every 30 seconds from independent European edge locations to spot downtime immediately.
- SSL certificate monitoring
- Automated TLS certificate checks that alert before certificates expire and cause an unnecessary outage.
- Alerts when something breaks
- Instant notifications via Discord, Slack, Telegram, email, and webhooks.
- Incident management
- Track outages, post updates, coordinate fixes, and keep a clean timeline without assembling spreadsheets at 2am.
- Branded public status pages
- Host public status pages on your own custom domain with automatic SSL and subscriber feeds.
- Maintenance windows
- Schedule planned maintenance to avoid false alarms during upgrades and deployments.
- Unlimited members & projects
- Invite all your colleagues to contribute in unlimited projects, no per-seat surcharges.
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Frequently asked questions
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What is AWS uptime monitoring?
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AWS uptime monitoring is the practice of checking AWS-hosted websites, APIs, and services from outside Amazon Web Services to verify they are reachable and responding correctly to users.
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Why monitor AWS from outside AWS?
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Monitoring AWS from within AWS creates a single point of failure. If an AWS region, DNS service, or CloudWatch component experiences an outage, internal alarms might fail to trigger or alert you. Independent monitoring guarantees you receive alerts even during major AWS outages.
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Can Phare monitor websites hosted on AWS?
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Yes. Phare monitors websites running on EC2, ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, S3 static hosting, CloudFront, or behind Application Load Balancers (ALB) via HTTP/HTTPS.
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Can Phare monitor APIs running on AWS?
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Yes. Phare checks REST and GraphQL APIs hosted on AWS with custom HTTP methods, headers, body validation, latency tracking, and status code verification.
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Can Phare monitor EC2 services?
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Yes. Any publicly accessible port or service on an EC2 instance can be monitored via HTTP, HTTPS, or TCP checks.
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Can Phare monitor AWS load balancers?
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Yes. You can monitor public endpoints behind Application Load Balancers (ALB), Network Load Balancers (NLB), or Classic Load Balancers.
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Can I use Phare alongside CloudWatch?
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Absolutely. CloudWatch is ideal for deep AWS metrics, CPU utilization, and logs. Phare complements CloudWatch by providing an external, independent availability check.
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Can Phare monitor AWS services from multiple regions?
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Yes. Phare executes checks from 12 global monitoring locations to ensure your AWS applications are accessible worldwide, not just from a single region.
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Can I create an AWS service status page?
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Yes. Phare includes hosted public status pages with custom domains, automatic SSL, component grouping, and incident updates to keep users informed during outages.
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Does Phare offer free AWS uptime monitoring?
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Yes. Phare's Hobby plan is free forever with no credit card required, offering 30-second checks, multi-channel alerts, incident management, and status pages.
Multi-cloud infrastructure uptime monitoring
Phare monitors public endpoints across AWS, GCP, Azure and bare metal from one place that doesn't go down when you do.
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Phare-tastic feedback
They all came for a free uptime monitoring tool, they stayed for the superior platform, and the vibe.
I think Phare has a very clean and to the point interface and feature list. I use for my personal projects right now but I am considering it for work related things as well.
I simply love it. The UI is very clean and clear. You only pay what you use. That is for every request that is made. You can even adjust the frequency for each monitor individually. However, for me the best feature is the well-documented API that makes it possible to embed phare.io into your existing infrastructure in no-time.
It has all the important features and its UI is just lovely!
Amazing uptime management! Works automatically and notifies me via email.
Super slick. Ridiculously simple to setup. Took me a minute to figure out where the badge was but otherwise this was setup in a blink of an eye.
Checked many, many competitors, and Phare is fairly the best option to go with!
Nice UI, clear UX, custom domain, custom status page. I sign up and 5 minutes later I get : - 2FA secure auth - A nice status page on my own domain - Telegram & email alert working The product is simple and powerful, I love it. Bravo !
Phare can be described simply in two words: Absolutely amazing.
We’ve been using Phare for months now, and the dev is actively working on improving the system! He responds to messages and even reached out to us when we didn’t know there was a problem. We’ve used lots of systems and by far this takes the cake and works perfect for what we need.
Phare offers a nice status page that is incredibly easy to use. It’s free to play, no credit card required. Incident management has internal and external communication.
It’s a great product, I was able to participate in the beta and it’s really a great project, I’m very happy that we have a solution like that in Europe. Can’t wait to see what happens next.
