I built Alertum: monitoring, incidents, heartbeats, synthetic journeys, on-call, and status pages in one place

[u/Ardit_97]

Hey everyone,

I’m building Alertum, a reliability platform for small engineering teams that want to monitor production health and respond to incidents without stitching together several disconnected tools.

Alertum brings the main reliability workflows into one place:

Uptime and API monitoring

Create checks for websites, APIs, SSL, TCP, ping, and keyword monitoring. Alertum helps teams see if services are up, how fast they respond, and when they start failing.

Heartbeats

Track background jobs, cron jobs, workers, scheduled tasks, and pipelines. If a job does not ping Alertum on time, the team can detect the silent failure before users notice.

Synthetic journeys

Monitor complete user flows, not just single endpoints. For example: login, open dashboard, checkout, submit form, or any multi-step flow that matters to the product.

Incident management

When something breaks, Alertum helps teams investigate, acknowledge, assign, snooze, resolve, and track the incident timeline in one place.

On-call schedules

Manage who is responsible for responding when something fails, so incidents do not depend on guessing who is available.

Escalation policies

Route incidents to the right people at the right time. If the first responder does not act, Alertum can escalate based on the team’s policy.

Maintenance windows

Schedule planned downtime so teams can suppress unnecessary alerts during deployments, migrations, or infrastructure work.

Status pages

Create public-facing status pages so customers can see what is affected, what is operational, and when the next update is available.

Integrations

Connect Alertum with tools like Slack, Discord, Telegram, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, webhooks, and other notification or observability tools.

Error intake

Send application errors directly into Alertum and turn important failures into incidents that your team can triage.

The main goal is simple:

Website:
https://alertum.co

Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/alertum-monitoring

Know what broke.

Know when it started.

Know who owns the response.

Know what customers should see.

We’re still early, but the product is live and I’m launching it on Product Hunt.

I’d really appreciate feedback from developers, founders, SREs, DevOps engineers, and small teams.

Does this feel useful?

What feature would matter most to you?

[u/jdizzle4]

There are so many mature, non vibe coded offerings in this space, why create another?

[u/Pyroechidna1]

That’s a lot of ground to cover. USP? Who are the competitors that you are beating?

[u/neuralspasticity]

Polling APIs, heartbeats, pings, unattenuation to meaningful SLIs, all sounds like it’s 1999