Phare Uptime
Website & API uptime monitoring, incidents, and status pages
You deployed while vibing. Production started steaming. Phare caught it before your users noticed a thing.
Made and hosted in the
European Union
Never applied to
Combinator
Average rating
4.8
Product of the day
1 st
“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
Website and API monitoring that babysit your production
Building a resilient uptime monitoring system is boring and tedious, allow yourself to have fun instead.
Monitoring you can rely on
Know the moment your websites or APIs misbehaves. Monitor all your endpoints with precision, from almost anywhere on Earth.
- Monitor HTTP(s) and TCP endpoints, or check server availability with ICMP ping monitoring.
- Choose from 11+ locations in Europe, Asia, America and Oceania.
- Monitor critical resources every 30 seconds and less important ones every hour
- Manage SSL certificates and get alerted on discovery and before expiration
Multi-player incident management
Create, track, and communicate incidents with your team and customers.
- Get automatic incident detection for a wide range of issues with AI summaries and post-mortem.
- Add comments for your pals, and publish incident updates to keep your customers in the loop.
- Keep things tidy with an extensive event timeline of all events, updates, and comments.
Conversational status pages
Tell your users what’s up, or down. Share clear, branded updates that make even outages look good.
- Create a branded status page that runs on your own domain, or one provided by Phare.
- Control access to your status page by IP address, token, or password.
- Let users subscribe to real-time update via RSS, Atom and Slack subscriptions.
- Be nice to the planet with the most eco-friendly status page, rated with an A+ perfect score.
Scheduled maintenance windows
Silence the alarms, keep your SLA clean, and notify your customers before planned downtime begins.
- Pause checks or mute notifications so your team can deploy without alert fatigue.
- Broadcast scheduled maintenance directly onto your public or private status pages.
- Keep your SLA metrics accurate by excluding planned maintenance from downtime reports.
Alerting that delivers
No more alert spam. Just smart, flexible notifications. Get the right alerts, to the right place, at the right time.
- Granularly choose which events are relevant for you and where to send them.
- Rate limit notifications to reduce spam and postpone low-priority notification during sleep hours.
- Get notified with an aggressive retry policy on all notification channels to ensure delivery during outages.
“Phare makes me feel more professional in how I communicate Vemetric’s service health. Multi-region monitoring, SMS alerts, smooth incident management, and a clean status page help me keep customers informed.”
Dominik Sumer
Founder, Vemetric
Industry: Web & Product Analytics
Team size: 1
Uptime monitoring built to scale with you
From solo founders to enterprise teams, Phare is designed with enough flexibility to fit your needs.
SaaS Companies
Monitor your application, API endpoints, and databases from our European servers. Keep customers informed with a branded status page tool and automated incident updates. Fully GDPR compliant.
Developers & Agencies
Monitor all your client websites from one dashboard. Unlimited projects and team members. Get alerted before your clients notice issues.
E-commerce & Online Businesses
Every minute of downtime costs revenue. Get instant alerts when your store goes down. Track SSL certificates to avoid checkout page issues.
Enterprise IT Teams
Monitor critical infrastructure from 12 global regions. Collaborate during incidents with built-in team tools. Generate postmortems for stakeholders.
Frequently asked questions
You could not find the answer to your question? Ask support.
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What is uptime monitoring?
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Uptime monitoring is the automated process of testing your websites, APIs, and servers at regular intervals to verify they are reachable, fast, and responding correctly. When a check fails across multiple regions, uptime monitoring triggers instant alerts so you can fix outages before customers complain.
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What can I monitor with Phare?
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If it talks on the internet, Phare can monitor it. You can track availability for HTTP and HTTPS websites, REST and GraphQL APIs, raw TCP ports, and servers with ICMP ping monitoring. Phare also supports custom request headers, user agents, request bodies, status code and response body assertions, and SSL/TLS certificates.
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How often can Phare check my website?
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Phare checks your critical endpoints as often as every 30 seconds from global edge regions, ensuring near-instant downtime detection and minimal disruption.
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Can Phare monitor APIs?
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Yes. Phare provides dedicated API monitoring with support for HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and more), custom authentication headers, custom request bodies, response body assertions, and response time thresholds.
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Can I monitor SSL certificates?
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Yes. SSL/TLS certificates are automatically discovered and monitored on every check. You will receive proactive alerts before certificates expire or encounter configuration errors.
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Can I monitor from multiple regions?
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Yes. Checks are performed from up to 12 global monitoring regions across Europe, America, Asia, and Oceania, giving you a worldwide view of availability and eliminating single-location false alarms.
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Can I monitor internal or private infrastructure?
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Phare uses shared IP addresses rather than dedicated static IPs, but you can securely monitor private or protected infrastructure. Phare implements the Web Bot Auth standard (cryptographic HTTP message signatures) and allows you to append secret verification tokens to your monitor’s User-Agent or custom request headers, allowing your reverse proxies, WAFs, or firewalls to safely authenticate monitoring traffic.
Phare-tastic feedback
They all came for a free uptime monitoring tool, they stayed for the superior platform, and the vibe.
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.
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!
Phare can be described simply in two words: Absolutely amazing.
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.
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.
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 !
Amazing uptime management! Works automatically and notifies me via email.
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.
