Know your app is up, fast and correct —
before your users do.
koigrid Checks watches your endpoints from the outside — HTTP & API checks with assertions on status, latency and body — and alerts you by email and webhook the moment something breaks. Monitoring-as-code, flat rate, EU-hosted. The CloudWatch Synthetics replacement, as simple as Checkly.
Monitoring shouldn’t cost more than your app
Pingdom and Datadog meter per check and per host; CloudWatch Synthetics is fiddly and AWS-only. koigrid Checks gives you uptime + synthetic monitoring at a flat rate, driven entirely by API (create a check from your AI agent), right next to the apps, databases and crons it’s watching.
koigrid Checks vs the usual suspects
| Feature | koigrid Checks | CloudWatch Synthetics |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Flat rate | Per canary + Lambda runs |
| URL / heartbeat check | Yes | Yes |
| API check with assertions | Status · latency · body · header | Scripted (Node/Python) |
| Alerts (email + webhook) | Built-in | Via CloudWatch Alarms + SNS |
| Monitoring-as-code (API/CLI) | Native | CloudFormation |
| Runs next to your apps/DBs | Yes (same platform) | No |
| EU data residency | Yes | Region-dependent |
Browser (Playwright) checks, multi-region and SSL-expiry monitoring are on the roadmap.
What you’d pay elsewhere
10 endpoints monitored every minute, with alerting
koigrid Checks (Starter)
€12/mo/mo
flat — 10 checks, 1-min interval, alerts included
Pingdom / Datadog
€30–70/mo/mo
per-check + per-user pricing that grows with your team
flat & predictable
Prices are indicative; koigrid is flat-rate and EU-hosted.
Everything you need to catch downtime early
URL & API checks
Ping any endpoint on a schedule and assert on HTTP status, response time, body (contains/regex/JSON path) and headers.
Alerts that reach you
Email + webhook (Slack, PagerDuty, Discord) the moment a check goes down — and again when it recovers. No spam: only on state change.
Anti-flaky retries
Retries before declaring an outage, plus a per-check timeout — a single blip won’t page you at 3am.
Uptime & latency history
Every run recorded: uptime %, average and p95 latency, and the last failures with details.
Protected endpoints
Attach encrypted custom headers (Authorization, x-api-key) to monitor authenticated routes.
Monitoring-as-code
Create, run and inspect checks from Claude Code or any LLM via the API — plus run-once to test a check instantly.