The New PulseWatch App Is Here
For a long time, watching your infrastructure meant juggling separate tools: a cron job for checks, a notification channel for alerts, and a spreadsheet to remember what you were watching. Today we're replacing all of that with the new PulseWatch app.
One shell, five tabs, and an Overview screen that answers "is anything down?" before you have to dig for it. The desktop app installs with one command, runs on macOS, Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi, and your first 10 monitors are free.
Read the Room in Seconds
The Overview does one job. It shows the state of every monitor with no digging. Four numbers up top give you total, up, down and availability, so you know where you stand before you scroll.
Below the numbers, each monitor gets one card: name, protocol, 7-day uptime, last check and a state badge. When something breaks, filter to what's down, fix it, and refresh. Paused monitors stay out of the way until you need them again.
Four numbers
Total, up, down, availability. The state of every monitor, read in seconds.
One card per monitor
Name, protocol, 7-day uptime, last check and a state badge. You don't click around to find the status.
Down-first filtering
All, Up, Down. One tap shows only what's down right now, so you can start triage.
Pause, don't delete
Paused monitors stay marked and out of the way, with history intact for when they come back.
Five Tabs, One Shell
Every feature lives one tab away, and each tab reports to the same Overview.
Overview
A home screen with totals, filters and one card per monitor.
Incidents
Failures get a timeline in their own tab, separate from the healthy monitors.
Status pages
Public status pages live in the same shell, managed next to the monitors they report on.
Maintenance windows
Schedule known work as maintenance so planned changes don't look like outages or page anyone.
Two Ways to Run It
The desktop app runs the same Overview in its own window, so it never gets lost among browser tabs. One command installs it:
curl -fsSL https://pulsewatch.pignatiello.online/install.sh | sh -s -- desktop
The CLI is the same install script without the desktop argument. Both run on macOS, Windows, Linux, Docker and Raspberry Pi.
Watched by Our Own Instance
The screenshots on the app page come from our own dashboard, not from mockups. We watch PulseWatch with PulseWatch: 7 monitors, 3 views and 30 days of check history. The result is public on the status page, so you can check our claims yourself.
Full List — Everything That Shipped
The complete list for this release:
- New The Overview screen with totals, filters and one card per monitor.
- New The desktop app for macOS, Windows, Linux, Docker and Raspberry Pi, installed with one command.
- New A dedicated Incidents tab with failure timelines, separate from healthy monitors.
- New Status pages managed in the same shell as the monitors they report on.
- New Maintenance windows so planned work doesn't page anyone.
- Improvement All / Up / Down filters. One tap shows only what's down right now.
- Improvement Adding a monitor takes one button and a URL. Pausing takes one click.
- Improvement First 10 monitors are free, with no card and no trial timer.
Try It Today
The app is live now. Read the tour on the overview page, or open the dashboard directly. The install command above is enough to have the desktop app running on your machine in under a minute.
Monitoring shouldn't be a project. Point PulseWatch at the things you care about, check the Overview, and get on with your day. That is the entire product.
— The PulseWatch Team
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