Monitor uptime free for 14 days
PostDeploy gives you 100 uptime monitors, 200 cron jobs and 1-minute checks free for 14 days with no credit card. Sign up at the bottom of this page.
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What the free trial covers
The 14-day trial includes 100 uptime monitors, 200 cron jobs, checks every minute, and alerts by email, Slack and Discord. It needs no credit card.
Uptime checks and cron-job heartbeats have separate allowances: 100 uptime monitors for HTTP checks and 200 cron jobs for heartbeats. That is room for a real project with customers: the API, the site, the marketing page, and the scheduled jobs behind them. After the trial, the same limits cost $29 a month.
How the checks run
Checks run from the PostDeploy application servers on a single AWS region, not from a distributed probe network. Each check requests your URL, and a failed or slow response opens an incident and sends the alert to the channels you configured.
The check interval floor is 1 minute, on the trial and after it. There is no faster tier to buy.
How this compares to other free tiers
Dedicated uptime tools publish bigger free monitor allowances than most entry plans. What those tiers leave out: cron heartbeats with their own allowance, Slack alerts on free, and error tracking and analytics under the same login.
The PostDeploy trial covers one real project end to end: 100 uptime monitors, 200 cron jobs, and the other two pillars live in the same package.
If uptime is one of three things you would otherwise wire up separately, one toolkit beats three subscriptions.
Also running cron jobs?
Uptime checks can only see things with a URL; a scheduled job that silently stops running produces no failing request to catch. Heartbeat monitors cover that side, with their own allowance of 200 cron jobs on the trial. The one-curl setup is in the cron monitoring trial guide.
Questions
What happens after the 14 days?
Without a subscription the organisation becomes read-only: every chart and incident stays visible, but writes and ingest stop. Data is kept 30 more days, then purged. Subscribing for $29 a month keeps everything configured.
What counts as a monitor?
One HTTP uptime check uses one of the uptime monitors. One cron-job heartbeat uses one of the cron jobs; the allowances are separate.
How fast will I know my site is down?
Checks run every minute, during the trial and after it, so in the worst case a failure is detected about a minute after it starts.
Can I get alerts in Slack or Discord?
Yes, in the subscription and during the trial, alongside email. Webhook and Telegram channels are included too.