The uptime monitor I wanted for our own projects — quiet, honest, and priced for people who pay for it themselves.
I've been writing software for more than twenty years. For nearly all of that time, something I'd built was running somewhere, and something else was supposed to tell me when it stopped.
That second thing was never quite right. You can get monitoring that's cheap. You can get monitoring that's good. With enough budget you can get monitoring that's clever. Great, affordable and smart in one product turned out to be hard to find — so I built it, to watch our own projects.
It started from one rule: a single failed check is not an outage. Repose checks from Amsterdam, Virginia and Singapore, and nobody is paged until all three agree. When one region disagrees, that gets written down with the reason, and it's there to read in the morning. When the cause is a provider having a bad day, it says so instead of blaming you — it mirrors 14 provider status pages to check.
Every decision is kept, including the ones where it decided to leave you alone. A monitor you can't audit is a monitor you end up ignoring.
The rest followed from using it. Status pages and on-call are included, because I didn't want three subscriptions for one job. Mercury reads the probe evidence when something breaks and tells you where to look first — and says so when the evidence doesn't say. The pricing is flat, because per-seat pricing punishes you for telling your colleagues.
Repose is one developer in the Netherlands. There is no sales team. It watches itself with the same engine, its status page is public, and the numbers on the homepage are counted from the production database — test workspaces included, which is why they aren't round.
Signup is open, and the free plan is a real one: 25 monitors, commercial use included. If something here is wrong or missing, write to me.
If Repose pages you for nothing, misses a real incident on one of your monitors, or gets a bill wrong — you hear it from us, in plain English, with what happened and what changed. No "some users may have experienced". The decision trail is there so you can check our account against the record.
Software developer for more than two decades. Built Repose to monitor our own projects, because great, affordable and smart didn't come in one product. Runs it solo, deliberately — every feature ships only after the ones before it are unsurprisingly correct.
Free for 25 monitors, even commercially. No card. We'll only wake you up when something is actually broken.