Checkout has been stable for 15 minutes. A postmortem follows.
NewSpectate 2: on-call, escalation branches and a new dashboard
Know it's down before your customers do.
Uptime monitoring, on-call, incidents and status pages in one calm tool. Built in the Netherlands, priced per monitor, with your whole team included.
No credit card. From €15 a month.
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Respond
Overview
Alerts firing
Active incidents
No active incidents
Nothing is on fire. If something looks wrong, declare an incident and start coordinating.
Recently resolved
Firing alerts
Monitors
UpDownPendingPaused
| Monitor | 24h | 30d | Response |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99.93% | 99.99% | 9ms | |
| 99.95% | 99.99% | 14ms | |
| 99.97% | 99.99% | 142ms | |
| 99.97% | 99.99% | 176ms | |
| 99.97% | 100% | 230ms |
This is the real dashboard with demo data. Click around, or break something.
One loop, one tool
From the first failed check to the last status update
Most teams glue four tools together for this. In Spectate it's one flow.
- 01
Monitor
Websites, APIs, certificates, domains and servers, checked every 30s.
Uptime monitoring - 02
Alert
Escalation paths decide who hears about it, where and when.
Alerting - 03
Respond
Page whoever is on call and run the incident from Slack.
Incident management - 04
Communicate
Your status page and its subscribers follow every update.
Status pages
The details
Small things that matter at 3 a.m.
Screenshots of the failure
The checker that saw it fail keeps a screenshot and the response.
Press 1 to acknowledge
On-call pages by SMS or phone call. One key press stops the escalation.
Escalations that branch
Critical at night pages someone; a warning waits for the morning.
Incidents in Slack
/incident declare opens the incident and its own channel.
The whole certificate chain
Intermediates too, so one that expires early doesn't surprise you.
Servers in one command
The open-source agent reports CPU, memory, disks and network every 15s.
Status pages in six languages
English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and Italian, matched to the visitor.
Domains that don't lapse
Warned before expiry, and when nameservers or the registrar change.
Pricing
Pay per monitor. Your whole team is included.
On-call tools usually charge per responder. We charge per monitor, from €0.50 to €0.75, so adding a person to the rotation costs nothing.
Made in Europe
Monitoring you can explain to your DPO
Your monitors know your infrastructure and your on-call schedule knows your people's phone numbers. That data belongs with a company under the same law as you.
- A Dutch companyBuilt and run in Papendrecht, under Dutch and EU law. No US parent.
- Billed in eurosPay by card or SEPA Direct Debit, with VAT handled for you.
- DPA and subprocessorsThe DPA is part of the terms, and every provider that touches your data is listed.
- No trackers on this siteNo cookies, no ad pixels, no consent banner.
From the people on call
Teams sleep better
“With Spectate, I can leave my house with peace of mind, knowing that someone is watching over my servers. The status pages are fantastic and my clients are very pleased with them.”
Sebastiaan KloosFounder, Learnkit“I've been using Spectate ever since the beginning and it has never let me down. It's a stable and clear uptime monitoring tool that has a lot to offer.”
Dennis SminkFounder, Ploi“I've used multiple uptime check services but Spectate is truly my favourite one. It is able to find downtime that other services are not able to find, along with a status page that is clear, fast and simple to use.”
Zander van der MeerFounder, Meer Development“I love that I can manage multiple beautiful branded status pages from one account. Whether you're an indie hacker or a big software company, I highly recommend it.”
Janyk SteenbeekFounder, Webmethod“Great tool to monitor our websites. We've been using it for at least 15 websites now and it never lets us down. The best thing is that we can send notifications to multiple channels at once.”
Rick de BoerSoftware Engineer, E. Soer B.V.FAQ
Questions, answered
What is Spectate?
Spectate is an uptime monitoring and incident management platform from the Netherlands. It checks websites, APIs, servers, certificates and domains, pages the right person through escalation paths and on-call schedules, runs incidents with Slack, and keeps customers informed with status pages. One subscription covers all of it, with your whole team included.
How much does Spectate cost?
You pay per monitor or host: €0.75 on Starter (from 20, €15 a month), €0.60 on Team (from 80, €48 a month) and €0.50 on Business (from 250, €125 a month), excluding VAT. Yearly plans cost 10 months. Team members are free on Team and Business. There is a 14-day trial without a credit card, and no free plan.
Where is my data stored?
Spectate is built and run by a Dutch company, and your account data, monitors, alerts and incidents are stored in the EU. Checks themselves run from the region you pick per monitor (Europe, North America, Asia or Oceania). Billing goes through Vatly, an EU merchant of record. The subprocessors page lists every provider and where it runs.
Does Spectate replace PagerDuty or Opsgenie?
For most small and mid-sized teams, yes. Spectate has on-call schedules with rotations and overrides, escalation paths with branches and working hours, and pages by email, SMS and phone call with press 1 to acknowledge. It doesn't charge per responder. Very large organisations with complex service catalogues may still need an enterprise tool.
Can I use my own domain for the status page?
Yes, on every plan. Point a CNAME at your page's own target and Spectate verifies the domain and issues the TLS certificate automatically. Pages can also be password protected, and from the Team plan made private with an access link.
How quickly will I know when my site is down?
Monitors are checked every 30 seconds on Team and Business and every 60 seconds on Starter. A failed check is repeated a few seconds later from the same region, and a second failure fires the alert straight away through your escalation path.
Do I need to install anything?
Not for uptime, SSL, DNS, mail or domain monitoring: those run from our checkers. For server metrics (CPU, memory, disks, network) you install the small open-source agent with one command.
Know about it first.
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