# WatchFor press kit and reviewer fact sheet

Updated 6 October 2026. Canonical page: https://watchfor.io/press
Numbers are generated from WatchFor's live plan data and product registries.
Contact: hello@watchfor.io

## WatchFor at a glance

- **Company:** Innospike, UAB. Based in Kaunas, Lithuania (EU). WatchFor is its product. (https://watchfor.io/about)
- **Monitor types:** 30. 9 of them on the Free plan, all of them from Pro. (https://watchfor.io/monitoring)
- **Probe locations:** 20. In 7 regions and 18 countries. (https://watchfor.io/infrastructure)
- **Free plan:** 15 monitors. Checks every 3 min, no credit card, not a trial. (https://watchfor.io/pricing)
- **Paid plans from:** €7/mo. €6/mo billed yearly. Flat price, no per-seat fees. (https://watchfor.io/pricing)
- **Fastest check interval:** 30 s. On Business; 3 min on Free. (https://watchfor.io/pricing)
- **Alert channels:** 16. Every channel on every plan, Free included. SMS and voice coming soon. (https://watchfor.io/alerting-integrations)
- **Status pages:** 3 free. On your own watchfor.io subdomain. (https://watchfor.io/status-pages)
- **API · MCP · A2A:** 85 · 59 · 18. REST operations, MCP tools and A2A skills, on every plan. (https://watchfor.io/developers)
- **Free tools:** 62. No-signup network, website and email tools. (https://watchfor.io/free-tools)
- **Open source:** 3 repos. Host agent, Prometheus exporter, agent toolkit; MIT-licensed SDKs. (https://github.com/watchfor-io)
- **Data location:** EU. Control plane in a TIER III data center in Vilnius. GDPR applies. (https://watchfor.io/infrastructure)

## Reviewer block

### WatchFor

**[WatchFor](https://watchfor.io)** — Uptime and infrastructure monitoring for humans and AI agents from an EU company: 30 check types, alerts only on failures confirmed from several locations, status pages, on-call and a free plan.

**Best for:** Teams that want uptime, API, cron, email and MCP-server monitoring in one tool, operable by AI agents, without per-seat fees.

**Key features**

- 30 check types: HTTP and keyword, API with JSON assertions, Playwright browser checks, heartbeat and cron jobs, SSL/TLS, DNS, domain expiry, TCP, UDP, ping, MTR, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, email round-trip, Core Web Vitals, page integrity, MCP servers and more
- Confirmed alerting: a monitor is Down only after several locations agree; a single failed check shows as Degraded
- Alerts to 16 channel types, plus built-in on-call rotations and escalation policies
- Incidents, post-mortems, maintenance windows and weekly or monthly reports
- Public status pages with incidents, maintenance, uptime history, RSS and third-party components
- Protocol-level MCP server monitoring that alerts with a diff when a tool's description or schema changes
- Email round-trip monitoring (delivery time, inbox or spam) plus SPF, DKIM, DMARC and blacklist checks
- Linux server monitoring with the open-source watchfor-agent (Apache-2.0), from Starter
- Everything in the dashboard is available to AI agents: REST API, MCP server (59 tools) and A2A (18 skills)
- 62 free no-signup tools

**Free plan:** Yes, free forever with no credit card: 15 monitors checked every 3 min, 9 of 30 check types, 3 status pages, 3 team members.

**Pricing from:** €7/mo (€6/mo billed yearly), Starter plan.

**Check interval:** 3 min on Free, 1 min on Starter and Pro, 30 s on Business.

**Locations:** 20 probe locations in 7 regions (Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Middle East, Africa and Oceania). Each monitor uses 1 region on Free, 2 regions on Starter, 3 regions on Pro, all 7 regions on Business; exact cities can be picked from Starter.

**Status pages:** Public status pages on your own watchfor.io subdomain with incidents, maintenance, uptime history, RSS and third-party components: 3 on Free, 25 on Starter, 50 on Pro, 100 on Business.

**Browser checks:** Playwright browser checks written as plain @playwright/test files: 1 on Free, 2 on Starter, 10 on Pro, 25 on Business.

**Alerting:** 16 channel types on every plan (Email, Webhooks, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Google Chat, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, ntfy, Gotify, Pushover, Pushbullet, PagerDuty, Opsgenie and Zapier), only for failures confirmed from several locations; built-in on-call rotations and escalations from Starter. SMS and voice-call alerts are coming soon.

**Integrations / API:** REST API (OpenAPI 3.1, 85 operations), MCP server (59 tools), A2A agent (18 skills) and 24 live diagnostics, with API keys or OAuth 2.1, on every plan including Free; SDKs for TypeScript, Python and Ruby; webhooks, Zapier and a Prometheus endpoint (Pro and above).

**Team seats:** Included, no per-seat fees: 3 members on Free, 25 members on Starter, 50 members on Pro, 100 members on Business.

**Pros**

- Wide range of check types in one product for the price
- Fewer false alarms: Down only after several locations confirm a failure
- Team members included on every plan, no per-seat fees
- Pick whole regions or exact cities per monitor
- MCP server and email round-trip monitoring, rare in this category
- Full REST API, MCP and A2A access on every plan, including Free
- 24 live diagnostics an AI agent can run on demand against any public target, from the same probe fleet
- 62 free no-signup tools (DNS, SSL/TLS grade, ping, traceroute, mail server checker and more) running from 20 probe locations
- WatchFor Grade: one A+ to F scale with published, versioned rules for SSL/TLS, security headers, mail servers, DNS, Core Web Vitals, CDN, email health and MCP servers
- EU company with an EU-hosted control plane; GDPR applies

**Cons**

- SMS and phone-call alerts are coming soon; until then PagerDuty, Opsgenie and push apps cover paging
- No native mobile app
- Status pages use a watchfor.io subdomain; custom domains and email subscribers are coming soon
- The host agent is Linux-only for now
- Hosted service only; there is no self-hosted edition
- Checks run from the public probe fleet; there are no private locations inside your network yet (heartbeats cover internal jobs)
- The dashboard is in English only

*Facts as of 6 October 2026, from https://watchfor.io/press.*

## Comparison-table row

| Tool | Best for | Free plan | Check interval | Status pages | Starting price | Regions | Browser checks |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WatchFor | Uptime, API, cron, email and MCP monitoring in one tool, AI-agent operable, no per-seat fees | Yes, 15 monitors, no card | 3 min free, 30 s fastest | Yes, 3 free, up to 100 | €7/mo | 20 locations in 7 regions | Playwright, 1 free, up to 25 |

## Best for

- **Monitoring MCP servers and AI-agent infrastructure.** Every check opens a real MCP session, walks the whole tool list and alerts with the exact diff when a tool changes. https://watchfor.io/mcp-monitoring
- **Teams that let AI agents run their monitoring.** REST API (85 operations), MCP server (59 tools) and A2A (18 skills) with OAuth 2.1, on every plan. https://watchfor.io/developers
- **Mail-server and email-delivery monitoring on a small budget.** SMTP, IMAP, POP3, email round-trip with delivery time and inbox or spam placement, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and blacklists, from €25/mo on Pro. https://watchfor.io/email-round-trip-monitoring
- **Watching a single website in depth.** Even one site gets the full picture: timings for every stage of each check (DNS, connect, TLS, first byte), incidents that name the likely root cause, SSL/TLS and security grades, and an Uptime SLA report for any date range. https://watchfor.io/http-monitoring
- **Diagnosing a problem from around the world.** 62 free no-signup tools and 24 live diagnostics run from 20 probe locations: DNS, TLS, ping, traceroute, ports and mail servers as the rest of the world sees them, in seconds. https://watchfor.io/free-tools
- **Catching website tampering and injected scripts.** Page integrity compares your key pages with an accepted baseline and alerts on new script sources, hijacked forms, weakened security headers and defacement. https://watchfor.io/page-integrity-monitoring
- **Agencies monitoring many client sites.** Flat plan prices with teammates included, a public status page per client, and the API and MCP server to add client sites automatically. https://watchfor.io/for-agencies
- **Most check types for the money, no per-seat fees.** 30 check types under one flat plan price, with team members included on every plan. https://watchfor.io/pricing
- **EU-based monitoring.** An EU company with its control plane in Vilnius, Lithuania, under European law and GDPR. https://watchfor.io/infrastructure

## What makes WatchFor different

- **MCP servers checked at protocol level.** A real initialize handshake and a paginated tools/list on every check, read-only. A changed tool description or schema (the MCP rug-pull) alerts with the diff. https://watchfor.io/mcp-monitoring
- **Email round-trip, not just an open port.** A test message is sent and fetched back from the mailbox, timed stage by stage, with where it landed: inbox or spam. https://watchfor.io/email-round-trip-monitoring
- **Page integrity.** A baseline of each page's scripts, forms, links and security headers; injected scripts, hijacked forms and defacement show up as a diff. https://watchfor.io/page-integrity-monitoring
- **Operable by AI agents.** Everything in the dashboard through REST, MCP (59 tools) and A2A (18 skills), plus 24 live diagnostics an agent can run against any public target. https://watchfor.io/developers
- **Down means confirmed.** A failure from one location is Degraded. Down, the alert and the uptime figure all wait until several locations agree. https://watchfor.io/docs/core-concepts
- **City-level location choice.** Pick regions or individual cities per monitor (from Starter), checked in rotation or all at once. https://watchfor.io/infrastructure
- **Free tools on the real probe fleet.** 62 no-signup tools (DNS propagation, SSL/TLS grade, mail server checker, CDN checker, Core Web Vitals and more) that run from the same 20 locations as the monitors, not from one server. https://watchfor.io/free-tools
- **One grade, published rules.** WatchFor Grade rates SSL/TLS, security headers, mail servers, DNS, Core Web Vitals, CDN, email health and MCP servers on one A+ to F scale. Every rule set is versioned and published, and each finding comes with its fix. https://watchfor.io/grades
- **Agent-ready, independently scored.** 100/100 on ora.ai's agent-readiness scan and on is-agentic.com: an AI agent can discover WatchFor, sign in with OAuth 2.1 and run it end to end without a human. https://watchfor.io/blog/100-on-ora-ai

## Features by category

### Uptime and network

- [HTTP/HTTPS Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/http-monitoring) (Free plan): Checks that your website, store or app is up and loading fast — and that pages actually return what they should.
- [Keyword / Content Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/keyword-monitoring) (Free plan): Watches a page for text that should be there — or text that shouldn't.
- [Ping (ICMP) Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/ping-monitoring) (Free plan): A simple “is it reachable?” check for any server, with response time and packet loss.
- [TCP Port Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/tcp-monitoring) (Free plan): Makes sure the services behind your site — databases, mail servers, SSH — are reachable and accepting connections.
- [UDP Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/udp-monitoring): Availability checks for services that talk over UDP, like time servers, DNS or game servers.
- [WebSocket Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/websocket-monitoring): Opens real WebSocket connections to make sure your live features — chat, feeds, dashboards — actually connect.
- [MTR / Network Path Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/mtr-monitoring): Traces the whole network route to your server, step by step, when things get slow.
- [NTP Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/ntp-monitoring): Checks your time servers stay accurate — offset, jitter and sync status, not just "is it up".
- [FTP Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/ftp-monitoring): Connects to your FTP servers so partner uploads and scheduled transfers keep working.
- [SFTP Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/sftp-monitoring): Watches the secure (SSH) file servers that move payroll, banking and partner files on deadlines.

### API

- [API Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/api-monitoring) (Free plan): Checks that an API answers correctly, not just that it answers: status, headers and JSON fields asserted on every check.

### Browser checks and performance

- [Playwright Browser Checks](https://watchfor.io/playwright-monitoring) (Free plan): Runs your real Playwright test on a schedule, step by step: can a customer still sign in, search and check out?
- [Core Web Vitals Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/core-web-vitals-monitoring): Measures how fast your pages feel to real visitors — the same Core Web Vitals scores Google uses for ranking.
- [CDN Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/cdn-monitoring): Confirms your CDN is doing its job and actually speeding up your site.
- [Compression Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/compression-monitoring): Checks your pages still come back Brotli-compressed, so they load faster on every device.

### SSL/TLS, DNS and domains

- [SSL Certificate Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/ssl-monitoring) (Free plan): Keeps an eye on your HTTPS certificates so visitors never see a scary “not secure” warning.
- [DNS Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/dns-monitoring): Watches the DNS records that point people to your site, and warns you if they change or stop working.
- [Domain Expiry Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/domain-expiry-monitoring): Tracks when your domain registration runs out.

### Cron jobs and heartbeats

- [Heartbeat Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/heartbeat-monitoring) (Free plan): Your workers and services ping us when they run — you get alerted the moment one goes silent.
- [Cron Job Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/cron-job-monitoring) (Free plan): Know the night a scheduled job doesn't run — real cron expressions, timezones and grace included.

### Email

- [SMTP Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/smtp-monitoring): Checks that your mail server is up and ready to send and receive.
- [IMAP Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/imap-monitoring): Logs in to a mailbox over IMAP: alerts when login, TLS or new mail stops working, or before the mailbox fills up.
- [POP3 Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/pop3-monitoring): Logs in to a POP3 mailbox like a help desk would, without downloading mail.
- [Email Round-Trip Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/email-round-trip-monitoring): Sends a test email and finds it in the mailbox: delivery time, Inbox or Spam.
- [Email Deliverability Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/email-monitoring): Watches the settings (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) that keep your emails out of spam folders.
- [Blacklist Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/blacklist-monitoring): Checks whether your mail server's IP has landed on spam blocklists.

### MCP servers

- [MCP Server Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/mcp-monitoring) (Free plan): Protocol-level checks for Model Context Protocol servers — handshake, tool inventory and rug-pull drift detection.

### Page integrity and site health

- [Page Integrity Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/page-integrity-monitoring): Alerts when key pages differ from an accepted baseline: injected scripts, hijacked forms, spam links, weakened headers.
- [Data Breach Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/data-breach-monitoring): Watches the Have I Been Pwned catalog for new breaches involving your domain.
- [CMS Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/cms-monitoring): Detects which of 60 platforms a site runs and alerts when it stops matching the one you expect.
- [Sitemap Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/sitemap-monitoring) (Free plan): Checks your sitemap loads and a sample of the pages listed in it still work.
- [Favicon Monitoring](https://watchfor.io/favicon-monitoring): Makes sure the little icon in the browser tab is present and served as a real image.

### Server monitoring

- [Server monitoring (Hosts)](https://watchfor.io/server-monitoring): CPU, load, memory, disk, network and processes from inside Linux servers, with the same alerting as monitors.
- [watchfor-agent](https://watchfor.io/agent): The open-source host agent: one-command install, outbound HTTPS only, signed releases.

### Status pages, incidents and on-call

- [Status pages](https://watchfor.io/status-pages): Public pages with incidents, maintenance, uptime history, RSS and third-party components.
- [Incident management and post-mortems](https://watchfor.io/incident-management): Confirmed incidents, acknowledgement, internal notes, maintenance windows and post-mortems.
- [On-call and escalations](https://watchfor.io/on-call): Rotations, overrides and escalation policies that page whoever is on call.
- [Alerting integrations](https://watchfor.io/alerting-integrations): Email, chat, push, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Zapier and webhooks, routed per contact group.

### Reports

- [Reports](https://watchfor.io/reporting): Weekly and monthly email reports and on-demand reports with trends, MTTR and insights.

### API, MCP and A2A

- [Developer portal](https://watchfor.io/developers): REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 specification, MCP server, A2A agent, sandbox and SDKs.

### Free tools

- [Free tools](https://watchfor.io/free-tools): No-signup DNS, SSL, HTTP, email and network tools run from the same probe fleet.
- [WatchFor Grade](https://watchfor.io/grades): One A+ to F scale for SSL/TLS, security headers, Core Web Vitals, DNS, email and MCP servers.

## Boilerplate

### About 25 words

WatchFor is uptime and infrastructure monitoring for humans and AI agents: 30 check types from 20 locations, alerts only on confirmed failures, and a free plan.

### About 50 words

WatchFor (watchfor.io) is uptime and infrastructure monitoring for humans and AI agents from an EU company. It runs 30 check types, from websites, APIs and Playwright journeys to email, DNS, SSL and MCP servers, from 20 locations in 7 regions, confirms failures before alerting, and includes status pages and on-call.

### About 100 words

WatchFor (watchfor.io) is uptime and infrastructure monitoring for humans and AI agents, made by an EU company in Kaunas, Lithuania. It runs 30 check types (websites, APIs, Playwright browser journeys, cron jobs, SSL/TLS, DNS, domain expiry, mail servers, email round-trip, Core Web Vitals, page integrity and MCP servers) from 20 locations in 7 regions, and declares an outage only after several locations confirm it. Incidents, on-call, post-mortems, reports and public status pages are built in. Everything in the dashboard is also available to AI agents through a REST API, an MCP server and A2A. A free plan needs no credit card, and paid plans start at €7 a month with team members included.

## Quotes

> A single failed check is not an outage. WatchFor calls a monitor Down only after several locations agree, because an alert at 3 a.m. should always mean something.
>
> — the WatchFor team

> AI agents are becoming operators. Anything you can do in the WatchFor dashboard, an agent can do through the REST API, MCP or A2A, and that is true on the free plan too.
>
> — the WatchFor team

> MCP servers fail in ways an HTTP check cannot see. We open a real protocol session on every check and show the exact diff when a tool changes.
>
> — the WatchFor team

## Brand assets

- Press kit (all logos as SVG and PNG, all screenshots light and dark): https://watchfor.io/press/watchfor-press-kit.zip
- Logo, colour, for light backgrounds: SVG https://watchfor.io/press/logos/watchfor-horizontal-color-light.svg · PNG https://watchfor.io/press/logos/watchfor-horizontal-color-light.png
- Logo, colour, for dark backgrounds: SVG https://watchfor.io/press/logos/watchfor-horizontal-color-dark.svg · PNG https://watchfor.io/press/logos/watchfor-horizontal-color-dark.png
- Logo, black: SVG https://watchfor.io/logo/watchfor-horizontal-light.svg · PNG https://watchfor.io/press/logos/watchfor-horizontal-black.png
- Logo, white: SVG https://watchfor.io/logo/watchfor-horizontal-dark.svg · PNG https://watchfor.io/press/logos/watchfor-horizontal-white.png
- Logomark, colour: SVG https://watchfor.io/logo/watchfor-logomark.svg · PNG https://watchfor.io/press/logos/watchfor-logomark.png
- Logomark, black: SVG https://watchfor.io/logo/watchfor-logomark-black.svg · PNG https://watchfor.io/press/logos/watchfor-logomark-black.png
- Logomark, white: SVG https://watchfor.io/logo/watchfor-logomark-white.svg · PNG https://watchfor.io/press/logos/watchfor-logomark-white.png
- Screenshot, Dashboard: light https://watchfor.io/changelog/2026-09-22-dashboard-status-strip/dashboard.webp · dark https://watchfor.io/changelog/2026-09-22-dashboard-status-strip/dashboard-dark.webp
- Screenshot, Incident with its likely cause: light https://watchfor.io/changelog/2026-07-24-incident-explanations/incident-why.webp · dark https://watchfor.io/changelog/2026-07-24-incident-explanations/incident-why-dark.webp
- Screenshot, Public status page: light https://watchfor.io/marketing/status-pages/incident.webp · dark https://watchfor.io/marketing/status-pages/incident-dark.webp
- Screenshot, Playwright browser check: light https://watchfor.io/marketing/playwright/run.webp · dark https://watchfor.io/marketing/playwright/run-dark.webp
- Screenshot, MCP server monitor: light https://watchfor.io/marketing/mcp/tools.webp · dark https://watchfor.io/marketing/mcp/tools-dark.webp
- Screenshot, Email round-trip: light https://watchfor.io/marketing/email-roundtrip/delivery.webp · dark https://watchfor.io/marketing/email-roundtrip/delivery-dark.webp
- Screenshot, Page integrity: light https://watchfor.io/marketing/integrity/change.webp · dark https://watchfor.io/marketing/integrity/change-dark.webp
- Screenshot, On-call escalation: light https://watchfor.io/marketing/oncall/flow.webp · dark https://watchfor.io/marketing/oncall/flow-dark.webp
- Screenshot, Core Web Vitals audit: light https://watchfor.io/marketing/browser/audit.webp · dark https://watchfor.io/marketing/browser/audit-dark.webp
- Screenshot, Playwright trace viewer: light https://watchfor.io/marketing/playwright/trace.webp · dark https://watchfor.io/marketing/playwright/trace-dark.webp
- Screenshot, CDN monitoring: light https://watchfor.io/marketing/cdn/charts.webp · dark https://watchfor.io/marketing/cdn/charts-dark.webp
- Screenshot, Server monitoring: light https://watchfor.io/marketing/hosts/charts.webp · dark https://watchfor.io/marketing/hosts/charts-dark.webp

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## Questions reviewers ask

**What does the free plan include?**
15 monitors checked every 3 min from one region, 9 of the 30 check types (HTTP, TCP, ICMP, SSL, Sitemap, Heartbeat / Cron, MCP Server, API and Browser check), 1 Playwright browser check, 3 status pages, 3 team members, every alert channel and full REST API, MCP and A2A access. No credit card, and it is not a trial. Current limits for every plan: watchfor.io/pricing.

**Where is customer data stored, and does GDPR apply?**
WatchFor is operated by Innospike, UAB, a company registered in Kaunas, Lithuania. Scheduling, alerting, storage and the dashboard run in a TIER III data center in Vilnius, so monitoring configuration and incident history stay in the EU, under European law, with GDPR applying. Vendors are listed at watchfor.io/legal/subprocessors.

**How does WatchFor confirm an outage before alerting?**
A failed check from one location marks the monitor Degraded. It becomes Down, opens an incident and alerts only when the failure is confirmed from several locations, and only confirmed incidents count against uptime.

**Can AI agents use WatchFor?**
Yes. Everything in the dashboard is available through the REST API (OpenAPI 3.1, 85 operations), the MCP server (59 tools) and the A2A agent (18 skills), with API keys or OAuth 2.1, on every plan including Free. Agents can also run 24 live diagnostics from the probe fleet against any public target.

**Can I get a demo account or a longer trial for a review?**
The Free plan needs no credit card, so you can test WatchFor yourself straight away. If your review needs paid-plan features, email hello@watchfor.io and tell us what you want to test.

**What does WatchFor not do?**
It does not do real-user monitoring (RUM), APM or log ingestion; it is outside-in monitoring plus an optional Linux host agent. SMS and phone-call alerts and custom domains with email subscribers for status pages are coming soon; there is no native mobile app and no self-hosted edition.

**How should the name be written?**
"WatchFor": one word, with a capital W and a capital F. Not "Watchfor", "Watch For" or "WATCHFOR". The domain is watchfor.io.

**Can I use the logos and screenshots?**
Yes, in articles, reviews and listings about WatchFor. Please do not recolour, stretch, crop or redraw the logo. The screenshots show a demo organization, not customer data.

## Contact

- Email: hello@watchfor.io
- Contact page: https://watchfor.io/contact
- Pricing (always current): https://watchfor.io/pricing · https://watchfor.io/pricing.md