About & legal

PulseWatch is an independent, self-serve HTTP uptime monitoring app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official distribution of any other monitoring product.

Attribution

PulseWatch takes conceptual inspiration from Uptime Kuma, an open-source self-hosted monitoring tool created by Louis Lam and its contributors. Uptime Kuma is distributed under the MIT Licence.

PulseWatch shares no source code, logos, or brand assets with Uptime Kuma. All branding, wording, visual design, and implementation here are original. "Uptime Kuma" is referenced solely for attribution and comparison purposes.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 Louis Lam

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

How checking works

Every result you see comes from a real HTTP request made server-side to the URL you entered. A check records the HTTP status code, the round-trip time, and any transport error. Nothing is simulated and no demo results are generated.

Checks run when you press “Check now”, when you run all due checks from the dashboard, or when an external scheduler calls the server endpoint POST /api/public/hooks/run-checks with the scheduler bearer secret. That endpoint runs every monitor whose configured interval has elapsed.

Data & privacy

Monitors, check results, and incidents are scoped to your account with row-level security in the database. No other account can read your data.