PulseWatch is shutting down on January 10, 2027

PulseWatch is a free, donation-supported service. Despite that, running and maintaining it costs real money every month, and donations have not been enough to keep it sustainable. Because of monetary reasons, we are officially shutting down PulseWatch on January 10, 2027.

What this means

On January 10, 2027, the hosted service, dashboards, monitors, and status pages will stop. We will keep things running until then so you have time to migrate your checks to another provider or to your own infrastructure.

It is not too late

We are highly likely to shut down PulseWatch. But all of this can change through donations. If support grows enough to cover hosting and maintenance, we will cancel the shutdown and keep building. The decision is in your hands.

Roadmap to shutdown

• December 10, 2026: the official PulseWatch server pinger goes offline. Checks will only be possible through self-hosted probes.
• December 30, 2026: desktop app and CLI endpoints go offline, along with API endpoints and webhooks. The desktop and CLI apps are discontinued.
• January 1, 2027: you can self-host PulseWatch using the published guide and images.
• January 10, 2027: PulseWatch shuts down.

Running PulseWatch yourself

PulseWatch is going away as a hosted service, but the software does not have to disappear with it. On January 1, 2027, one week before the shutdown date, we will publish a documented way to run PulseWatch on your own infrastructure.

That will include the server image, the database setup, environment variables, probe configuration, and a step-by-step self-hosting guide. If you depend on PulseWatch today, plan your migration now, and keep an eye on this post for the release. Anyone who wants to keep their own instance alive after January 10, 2027 will be able to do so.

Until then, the hosted platform keeps running normally: monitors, alerts, status pages, history and probes all behave as before. Only the long-term hosted future changes on January 10.

We are grateful to everyone who used, supported, and contributed to PulseWatch over the years. If you donated, thank you; your support is what kept it free for everyone else.

The PulseWatch Team