Monitoring

Monitoring tools are for watching uptime and infrastructure health — the kind of work every indie hacker eventually hits and would rather not build from scratch. 7 tools are listed here, each picked and written up individually rather than pulled from an affiliate feed. Better Stack is usually the first one people try: uptime monitoring, status pages, and on-call alerting bundled together well enough to replace three separate subscriptions. Checkly takes a different angle — write your uptime and API checks as actual Playwright/TypeScript code instead of clicking through a dashboard. And Datadog is worth a look too: the infra-monitoring platform teams graduate to once dashboards and alerts need to span dozens of services — and the bill grows with you. Every listing below includes the actual tradeoff, not marketing copy, so you can pick based on what you're building instead of what ranks highest in a sponsored roundup elsewhere.