What is WatchFor?

One platform to watch for anything — websites, APIs, networks, certificates, email and performance — with alerting, incidents and public status pages.

WatchFor is a monitoring platform with one idea behind it: watch for anything. If it has an address — a website, an API, a server, a port, a certificate, a domain, a mail server — WatchFor can check it continuously, from locations around the world, and tell you the moment it breaks, with enough detail to fix it fast.

Monitor anything

Websites & APIs

HTTP/HTTPS uptime, response times, status codes, body and header checks — for sites and REST/JSON APIs alike.

Networks

Ping (ICMP), TCP, UDP, DNS, and full network-path (MTR) tracing.

Certificates & domains

SSL/TLS expiry and validity, and domain registration expiry.

Email

SMTP servers and email policy — SPF, DMARC, DKIM.

Security & reputation

Data-breach exposure and email/IP blacklist (RBL) checks.

Performance & content

Core Web Vitals, CDN, compression, CMS, sitemap, WebSocket and more.

That's over 20 check types today — and the list keeps growing.

What you do with it

Get alerted

Rules turn raw check results into incidents, and incidents into notifications — only when something genuinely needs attention.

Diagnose fast

Every incident explains exactly what failed and why — no guessing.

Route notifications

Email, Slack, Discord, webhooks and more rolling out — to the right people.

Tell your users

Publish a status page so customers always know the current state.

How it works, in one picture

You add a monitor (e.g. https://api.example.com, every 60s)
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We check it from several global locations
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An alert rule decides if the result is a problem
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An incident opens → notifications go out → your status page updates
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The condition recovers → the incident resolves → everyone is notified

Every step is something you control: what to check, how often, what counts as a failure, who gets told, and what the public sees.

Try before you commit

You don't even need an account to start — WatchFor includes a public toolbox of free tools for one-off DNS, network, SSL, web and email checks. Like a tool? Most map directly to a monitor type you can turn into continuous monitoring in a couple of clicks.

What's coming

WatchFor keeps expanding what you can watch — heartbeat & cron job monitoring just landed. On the way: price-change monitoring and more check types. Have a request? We'd love to hear it.