The Downdetector alternative built for developers and ops teams.
Same crowdsourced reports you trust — plus official status-page ingestion, a documented REST API, real-time alerts, and a methodology that's documented instead of mocked.
| Feature | PulseWatch | Downdetector |
|---|---|---|
Crowdsourced user reports Real-time community reports of service issues | ||
Official status-page aggregation Auto-ingest the vendor's own status updates | ||
Synthetic monitoring probes Independent verification from multiple regions | ||
Transparent detection methodology Public formulas and confidence scores | ||
Public REST API Build dashboards, bots, and integrations | Pro & Business | Enterprise only |
Webhook delivery Push incidents to your tooling in real time | ||
Slack / PagerDuty alerts | ||
Anti-fake-report scoring Automatic abuse defense, auditable | ||
Cross-service correlation "3 services down — possible AWS us-east-1" | ||
Embeddable status widgets | ||
Browser extension | ||
Built for developers + ops teams | ||
Built for consumers | ||
Starting price | Free forever | Enterprise (contact sales) |
Methodology you can audit
Every detection rule, every threshold, every anti-abuse signal is documented on our methodology page. No black boxes, no mock data.
Read the methodology →An API you can actually buy
Pro ($49/mo) includes the REST API at 300 req/min and 100K requests/month. Build a Discord bot, a status dashboard, or a Slack alerter — without a procurement call.
Read the API docs →Earlier than the status page
Our crowdsourced + synthetic signals routinely catch incidents minutes before the vendor confirms. We measure and publish the lead time.
View live incidents →Why teams switch to PulseWatch
You need an API and Downdetector won't quote you one
Pro and Business ship a real REST API with documented endpoints and rate limits — no enterprise sales call required.
You operate a real business and need vendor transparency
Downdetector is consumer-first. PulseWatch ingests every vendor's official status page so you see PulseWatch's signal AND the vendor's own admission side-by-side.
You want to embed a status badge on your help center
PulseWatch widgets are part of every paid plan. Drop one <iframe> on your support page and you're done.
You want answers Google rewards in search
Every PulseWatch service page ships FAQ + LiveBlogPosting structured data so your "is X down?" link previews show the live status — not a stale generic snippet.
Try the developer-grade outage tracker.
Free forever. No card. A watchlist, alerts, and 30 days of incident history.
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