Introduction

What Watchplane is, how it works, and the core concepts you need to know.

Watchplane is an AI-powered uptime monitoring platform that consolidates monitoring, incident management, and status pages into a single product.

Core concepts

Organizations

An organization is the top-level account container. Every user belongs to at least one organization. Team members can be invited and assigned one of two roles:

  • Admin — full access including billing, member management, and API token administration
  • Member — read/write access to projects and monitors

Projects

A project is a logical grouping of monitors and resources. Use projects to separate environments (production, staging), customers, or services.

Organization
└── Project A (Production)
    ├── Monitor: API health check
    ├── Monitor: Database TCP ping
    └── Heartbeat: Nightly backup job
└── Project B (Staging)
    └── Monitor: Staging API

Monitors

A monitor actively checks a target on a schedule and records whether it is up or down. Watchplane supports:

TypeWhat it checks
HTTP/HTTPSResponse status, body content, response time
TCPPort connectivity
DNSRecord resolution and values
SSLCertificate validity and expiry

Each monitor has a configurable check interval (30 seconds to 24 hours depending on your plan), and can alert multiple notification channels when its status changes.

Heartbeats

A heartbeat monitor is the inverse of a regular monitor — instead of Watchplane reaching out, your job sends a ping to Watchplane at a regular interval. If the ping doesn’t arrive within the expected window, an incident is created.

Heartbeats are ideal for:

  • Cron jobs and scheduled tasks
  • Background workers
  • Automated backups

Incidents

An incident is created when a monitor detects a failure. Incidents track:

  • When the failure started and ended
  • Who acknowledged and resolved it
  • A timeline of comments

Incidents can be created automatically by monitors or manually by team members.

Status pages

A status page is a public-facing page that shows the real-time and historical status of your services. Attach any monitors to a status page and share the URL with your users.

Anomaly detection

Watchplane’s ML service analyzes response time patterns to detect degradation before it becomes a full outage. When anomalous behavior is detected, an alert is triggered with the predicted severity and trend.

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