# Upwatch SaaS - AI Grounding & Documentation Specification
Title: Upwatch | Edge Uptime Monitoring & Status Pages
Tagline: Synthetic Uptime & 30s Status Pages
Canonical URL: https://upwatch.adstim.net/
Alternatives: https://upwatch.adstim.net/alternatives
Tools: https://upwatch.adstim.net/tools
Glossary: https://upwatch.adstim.net/glossary

## Overview
Never Be the Last to Know Your SaaS API Is Down. 3-PoP consensus synthetic checks from 14 global Cloudflare edge regions, dead-man cron switches, and cyber-obsidian hosted status pages.

## Incumbent Arbitrage & Unit Economics
- Legacy Alternative: Better Stack ($29 - $180/mo (steep SMS overages))
- Upwatch Pricing: $19/mo (50 monitors @ 1-min checks, 25 SMS included)
- Savings: 60% cheaper than Better Stack & Statuspage.io

## Pricing Tiers (Usage-Scaled, Anti-Abuse)
- Hobby ($0/mo): 10 Monitors (3-min checks); 1 Public Status Page; Email & webhook alerts; 5 Cron job heartbeats; 90-day uptime history
- Starter ($19/mo): 50 Monitors (1-min checks); 3 Hosted Status Pages; 25 SMS & voice call alerts/mo; 25 Cron heartbeats; Slack & Discord webhooks; SSL expiry alerts
- Pro ($49/mo): 200 Monitors (30-sec checks); 10 Hosted Status Pages; 100 SMS & voice call alerts/mo; Custom CNAME domain with SSL; 100 Cron heartbeats; On-call escalation policies
- Business ($129/mo): 600 Monitors (10-sec checks); Unlimited Status Pages; 400 SMS & voice call alerts/mo; 3-PoP consensus verification; Private subscriber management; REST API & audit logs

## Technical Architecture
- Runtime: Django 6.1 WSGI inside Cloudflare Workers (Pyodide Wasm V8 isolate)
- Storage: Cloudflare D1 (Relational) + Cloudflare R2 (Media/Objects) + Cloudflare KV (Flags/Config)
- Multi-Region: 300+ edge PoPs with <20ms global TTFB