GCP uptime monitoring from outside Google Cloud Platform
Phare makes sure something outside Google Cloud is watching your GCP-hosted websites, APIs and services.
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Monitor your GCP infrastructure
Phare checks the services your users actually reach, rather than relying only on monitoring that lives inside the same cloud. Monitor public HTTP, HTTPS and TCP endpoints from multiple independent regions.
Uptime monitoring for your GCP websites and APIs
Monitor public HTTP and TCP endpoints from multiple independent regions without depending on Google Cloud infrastructure.
- Monitor websites and applications running Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and App Engine.
- Verify public ingress and load-balanced endpoints on GKE clusters.
- Know before a certificate expires and causes an unnecessary incident.
GCP status pages for transparent communication
A public status page gives your customers a clear, professional place to check service health during GCP downtime.
- Show live operational status across your GCP-hosted tools and public endpoints.
- Publish active incident updates while your team investigates and deploys fixes.
- Host on your own custom domain with automated SSL certificates at zero extra cost.
Incident management and automated alerts
Coordinate response workflows during GCP outages and keep your team aligned from “uh oh” to resolution without messy email chains.
- Receive immediate alerts via Telegram, Discord, Slack, email, or webhooks.
- Track incident response progress from first alert to final resolution.
- Schedule maintenance windows to prevent alerting during planned GCP maintenance.
- Collaborate with your entire operations team without per-seat fees.
“Phare provides a nice and clean UI, actually the best that I have seen for a monitoring tool so far. But you got many more features, like a status page with custom domain, own alert rules and alerting from different regions.”
Adriaan Wind
CTO & Co-Founder, Anny
Industry: Software as a Services
Team size: 10-50
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 GCP uptime monitoring?
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GCP uptime monitoring is the practice of checking Google Cloud Platform websites, APIs, and cloud services from independent infrastructure to ensure they are available to end users.
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Why monitor GCP from outside Google Cloud?
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Monitoring GCP from within GCP means your monitoring infrastructure shares the same dependencies, networks, and potential outage blast radius. An independent external monitor ensures alerts work even when GCP services fail.
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Can Phare monitor GCP websites?
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Yes. Phare monitors public websites and frontend applications hosted on Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Storage, Firebase Hosting, or behind Cloud CDN.
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Can Phare monitor GCP APIs?
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Yes. Phare checks REST, JSON, and GraphQL APIs hosted on GCP with configurable headers, request bodies, response assertions, and response time tracking.
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Can Phare monitor GKE services?
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Yes. Phare can monitor any GKE service exposed through an Ingress controller, Cloud Load Balancer, or public IP address.
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Can Phare monitor Cloud Run?
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Yes. Phare monitors public Cloud Run container URLs, checking HTTP response codes, response latency, and SSL certificates every 30 seconds.
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Can I use Phare alongside Google Cloud Monitoring?
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Yes. Google Cloud Monitoring is great for internal metrics, traces, and resource utilization. Phare serves as your external safety net checking availability from the user's perspective.
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Can Phare monitor GCP from multiple regions?
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Yes. Phare checks your GCP services from 12 global edge locations, validating worldwide reachability and catching regional routing problems.
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Can I create a status page for a GCP application?
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Yes. Phare provides hosted public status pages with custom domains, automatic SSL certificates, and incident timelines to inform users during downtime.
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Does Phare offer free GCP uptime monitoring?
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Yes. The Hobby plan is completely free with no credit card required, offering 30-second uptime checks, multi-channel alerts, incident management, and status pages.
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Why doesn't Phare use GCP?
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Phare is an independent, bootstrapped European business running on independent infrastructure outside the US hyperscalers. No shared networks, no shared blast radius, and no revenue going toward tech-giant lobbying or bunker complexes. That genuine independence is why you can trust Phare as an external watchdog for your Google Cloud infrastructure.
Multi-cloud infrastructure uptime monitoring
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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.
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.
Amazing uptime management! Works automatically and notifies me via email.
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.
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.
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.
Checked many, many competitors, and Phare is fairly the best option to go with!
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.
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.
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.
It has all the important features and its UI is just lovely!
