ALERTING

The right alert, at the right time, every time

Alert sent in under 60 seconds

Nodown confirms failures across multiple independent regions before alerting your team. No false positives. No alert fatigue. Just real incidents, delivered to wherever your team already works.

All 8 alert channels · Free on all plans · No credit card required

Slack #incidents just now

🔴 [DOWN] api.yourapp.com

503 Service Unavailable · 5/14 regions · 14:32 UTC

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PagerDuty PagerDuty · Production API just now

TRIGGER - api.yourapp.com is DOWN

Severity: critical · Service: Production API · Dedup: nodown-abc123

Slack #incidents 8 min later

✅ [RECOVERED] api.yourapp.com

Incident duration: 8m 14s · Resolved at 14:40 UTC

CONFIRMATION

Zero false positives - by design

A 3am alert that turns out to be a transient network blip is worse than no alert at all. It erodes trust in the system and conditions engineers to ignore or silence pages.

Nodown requires at least 3 of 14 independent global regions to confirm the same failure before any alert is sent. One failing check could be a routing blip between the probe and your server. Three independent regions reporting failure means real users are affected.

3+ regions must agree before alerting
<60s mean time from failure to alert
~0 false positive alerts in production
14 independent global probe locations
How verification works US East FAIL HTTP 503 France FAIL HTTP 503 Japan FAIL HTTP 503 Singapore OK HTTP 200 Brazil OK HTTP 200 Threshold reached (3/5 failing) - alert dispatched
EVENTS

Choose which events trigger alerts

Not all events deserve the same urgency. Configure each alert channel to fire only for the event types that make sense for that channel - downtime pages PagerDuty, SSL warnings go to email.

Monitor down Triggered when 3+ regions confirm the endpoint is unreachable or returning an error status code. This is the primary incident alert.
Monitor recovered Sent when the monitor returns to healthy. Includes total incident duration so you have a complete record without leaving your channel.
SSL certificate expiring Advance warning at 30, 14, and 7 days before your SSL certificate expires. Enough time to renew before users see a browser warning.
Slow response threshold Alert when response time exceeds a threshold you set (e.g. > 2000ms). Useful for detecting performance degradation before it becomes an outage.
Alert routing example

payments.yourapp.com

Down Recovered
pagerduty slack

api.yourapp.com

Down Recovered Slow
slack email

yourapp.com SSL

SSL expiry
email

dashboard.yourapp.com

Down
slack
FEATURES

Built for teams that can't afford to miss an incident

01 Multiple channels per monitor Assign more than one alert channel to a monitor. Critical services can page PagerDuty, post to Slack, and send SMS simultaneously.
02 Per-event filtering Control which event types fire to each channel. Route downtime to PagerDuty, recovery to Slack, SSL warnings to email - all from one monitor.
03 On-call escalation Pair Nodown with PagerDuty or OpsGenie to get full on-call rotation support, escalation policies, and acknowledgement tracking on top of our detection layer.
04 Recovery notifications Every alert channel receives a recovery message with total incident duration. No manual cleanup - your channel shows the full incident lifecycle.
05 Alert history Every alert sent is logged in your dashboard with payload details and delivery status. Review what was sent, when, and to which channels.
06 Webhook for custom logic Send a structured JSON payload to any endpoint. Build custom notification pipelines, trigger runbooks, or fan out to tools Nodown doesn't natively support.
07 Maintenance windows Schedule planned maintenance to automatically suppress alerts during deployments. No spurious pages when you're the one taking the service down.
08 Sub-minute alert delivery From failure detection to alert delivery in under 60 seconds on Pro plans. Our alert pipeline is built for speed, not batch delivery.
Ready to deploy in 60 seconds

Stop worrying about downtime.

Create your first monitors on the free plan, add alert channels, and publish a status page when your team is ready. No credit card required.

10 monitors free forever · 14 global regions · No CC required
Confirmed downtime alerts | SLA reporting | 8 alert channels