Phare

Phare is an uptime monitoring and incident management platform for websites and APIs, made and hosted in the European Union. It provides website and API uptime monitoring, TCP checks, ICMP ping monitoring, and SSL certificate monitoring from multiple global regions, with checks running as frequently as every 30 seconds according to the page metadata. Teams can coordinate incident response with event timelines, collaboration, and automated postmortems, and publish a public status page on a custom domain. The platform also includes a privacy-first, cookie-free analytics product, user management with unlimited team members and projects on the free plan, integrations with other tools, and an API. The website states the company is bootstrapped, has been online since September 2022, and that its free Hobby plan requires no credit card.

Key features

• Website and API uptime monitoring
• TCP checks
• ICMP ping monitoring
• SSL certificate monitoring
• Monitoring from multiple global regions
• Multi-channel alerts including SMS, Telegram, and email
• Incident management with event timelines, team collaboration, and automated postmortems
• Public status pages on a custom domain
• Scheduled maintenance communication
• Privacy-first, no-cookies analytics
• User management with unlimited team members and projects
• Integrations with other tools
• Documented API
• Two-factor authentication

Best suited for

• Startups, agencies, and small and medium businesses
• Teams that need to communicate service health to customers
• Developers monitoring websites and APIs
• Organizations seeking European-hosted monitoring tools

Pricing

Free Hobby plan stated as free forever with no credit card required; paid plan prices are not stated on the page.