Introducing Vantaj - Uptime Monitoring That Doesn't Cry Wolf
We built Vantaj because every monitoring tool we used woke us up for nothing. Today we're launching publicly: multi-region consensus alerting, status pages, heartbeat monitoring, and SSL/domain tracking - free for up to 20 monitors.
Why We Built This
Every uptime monitoring tool we tried had the same problem: false positives.
Your phone buzzes at 3 AM. You open your laptop, check the dashboard, ping the endpoint manually. Everything's fine. A network blip somewhere between the probe and your server triggered an alert that shouldn't have existed.
After the fifth time this happens, you stop trusting alerts. After the tenth, you mute the channel. After the twentieth, you miss a real outage and your customers tell you about it on Twitter.
We built Vantaj to fix this.
How It Works
Vantaj runs every check from multiple independent regions simultaneously. An incident only opens when all probe regions agree the target is down. One region seeing a timeout? That's a network blip - not your problem.
This is what we call consensus-based alerting, and it's why teams using Vantaj report zero false-positive pages.
What You Get Today
HTTP & API Monitoring
Paste a URL, set your check interval (down to 30 seconds on paid plans), and you're live. We check response status, body content, SSL validity, and response time - all in one monitor.
Multi-Region Probes
Every check runs from Frankfurt, Virginia, and Singapore simultaneously. You see per-region latency breakdowns and know instantly whether it's a regional issue or a full outage.
Heartbeat Monitoring
Cron jobs, background workers, scheduled tasks. If they stop pinging Vantaj, you know within seconds - before silent failures cascade into data loss or stale queues.
SSL & Domain Monitoring
Get alerted 90, 60, 30, 14, 7, and 1 day before your SSL certificate or domain registration expires. Covers auto-renewal failures and registrar issues that slip through the cracks.
Public Status Pages
A hosted status page your customers can bookmark. Real-time incident updates, full uptime history, custom domains. Live in under two minutes, zero code required.
Alerts Where You Work
Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, OpsGenie, Linear, webhooks, and Zapier. Get notified in the tools your team already uses.
Pricing
We believe monitoring should be accessible:
- Free - 20 monitors, 5-minute intervals, email alerts. Free forever.
- Developer ($9/mo) - 50 monitors, 1-minute intervals, Slack/Discord alerts, API access.
- Team ($29/mo) - 100 monitors, 30-second intervals, all alert channels, SMS, up to 10 team members.
- Enterprise - Unlimited everything, SSO, private probes, 99.99% SLA.
All plans include every check type: HTTP, heartbeat, SSL, domain, DNS, keyword, TCP, SMTP.
What's Next
We're shipping fast. Here's what's coming:
- Public REST API - Full CRUD for monitors, incidents, heartbeats, domains, and status pages. Deploy your monitoring as code.
- On-call scheduling - Escalation policies and rotation management, built in.
- Incident correlation - Automatic grouping of related failures.
Try It
First monitor live in under 2 minutes. No credit card required.
If you have questions, feedback, or want to chat about monitoring architecture - reach out. We read every message.
- Harry, CEO & Founder at Vantaj