# Vigil by PuzariCloud

> Vigil by PuzariCloud: uptime, API and cron monitoring with status pages and Slack, Telegram, Discord or email alerts — flat pricing, unlimited seats, from $19 (₹1,499).

Vigil is a monitoring platform from PuzariCloud (solo founder Ritom Puzari, India; servers in the EU). One product covers uptime, API and browser checks, cron heartbeats, status pages, servers, APM traces, error tracking, logs, real-user monitoring, on-call and alerting. Every feature is on every plan; plans change only the numbers. Free: 20 monitors at 5-minute checks. Paid plans are flat per workspace with unlimited team members and no overage: Starter $19/month, Pro $49/month, Business $149/month.

Updated 2026-10-18. Contact: hello@puzaricloud.in.

## Product

- [Vigil overview](https://puzaricloud.in/vigil): what it monitors and how alerts, incidents and status pages fit together
- [Self-hosted edition](https://puzaricloud.in/selfhosted): one-command Docker install with signed releases
- [Terraform provider](https://puzaricloud.in/terraform): manage monitors as code
- [GDPR and security](https://puzaricloud.in/gdpr): data region, retention, PII redaction, export and deletion

## Pricing

- [Pricing](https://puzaricloud.in/pricing): plan table, calculator and FAQ (updated 2026-10-19)
- [Free uptime monitoring compared](https://puzaricloud.in/free-uptime-monitoring): what every notable free tier includes (UptimeRobot, HetrixTools, Better Stack, Uptime Kuma, Vigil…), checked on vendor pages
- Free: free; 20 monitors, checks every 5 min, 1 server, 7 days history
- Starter: $19/month or $190/year, ₹1,499/month in India; 50 monitors, checks every 1 min, 3 servers, 30 days history, 14-day free trial
- Pro: $49/month or $490/year, ₹3,999/month in India; 200 monitors, checks every 1 min, 15 servers, 90 days history, 14-day free trial
- Business: $149/month or $1490/year, ₹11,999/month in India; 1000 monitors, checks every 1 min, 100 servers, 365 days history, 14-day free trial

## Live demo

- [Live demo](https://puzaricloud.in/demo): a fictional shop with sample data, read-only, no sign-up

## For agencies

- [Vigil for agencies](https://puzaricloud.in/for/agencies): client status pages, monthly client reports, unlimited seats, invoice math against per-seat tools

## Buyer's guides (category comparisons, facts checked from vendor pages)

- [Best uptime monitoring tools in India (2026)](https://puzaricloud.in/uptime-monitoring-india): INR pricing, UPI, GST invoices, WhatsApp and checks from India
- [Free status page tools](https://puzaricloud.in/best/free-status-page-tools): What the free tier of 11 hosted status page tools and 3 self-hosted ones really includes: own domain, email subscribers, built-in monitors and the catch
- [Healthchecks.io alternatives](https://puzaricloud.in/best/healthchecks-io-alternatives): Healthchecks.io alternatives compared on ping-URL compatibility (/start, /fail, exit codes, /log, ?rid=), free tiers and price, plus who should stay on Healthchecks
- [WhatsApp uptime alerts](https://puzaricloud.in/best/uptime-monitoring-whatsapp-alerts): Which uptime monitors send WhatsApp alerts natively, which need a gateway or webhook, how to set it up in Vigil by PuzariCloud, and what a message costs on Meta's India rate card

## Switching guides

- [Switch from UptimeRobot: what you would pay vs Vigil (calculator)](https://puzaricloud.in/switch/uptimerobot)
- [Freshping shut down: export checklist and where to move your checks](https://puzaricloud.in/switch/freshping)
- [Opsgenie end of life: map heartbeats, alerts and on-call to Vigil](https://puzaricloud.in/switch/opsgenie)
- [Outgrowing Uptime Kuma at hundreds of monitors: move or add an outside watcher](https://puzaricloud.in/switch/uptime-kuma)

## Research (original data)

- [Service reliability report](https://puzaricloud.in/research/service-reliability): uptime, outage episodes and latency of popular services from our own checks (CSV, CC BY 4.0)
- [Official vs observed](https://puzaricloud.in/research/outages): outages our direct checks saw, and how long each vendor's status page took to admit them (one checker location, Germany)

## Compare pages

- [Vigil vs Better Stack](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/better-stack)
- [Vigil vs UptimeRobot](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/uptimerobot)
- [Freshping alternative](https://puzaricloud.in/alternatives/freshping)
- [Vigil vs Uptime Kuma](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/uptime-kuma)
- [Vigil vs Pingdom](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/pingdom)
- [Vigil vs StatusCake](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/statuscake) · [StatusCake alternative](https://puzaricloud.in/alternatives/statuscake)
- [Vigil vs Hyperping](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/hyperping)
- [Vigil vs Checkly](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/checkly) · [Checkly alternative](https://puzaricloud.in/alternatives/checkly)
- [Vigil vs Atlassian Statuspage](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/statuspage) · [Atlassian Statuspage alternative](https://puzaricloud.in/alternatives/statuspage)
- [Vigil vs Instatus](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/instatus)
- [Vigil vs OpenStatus](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/openstatus)
- [Vigil vs Cronitor](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/cronitor)
- [Vigil vs Healthchecks.io](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/healthchecks) · [Healthchecks.io alternative](https://puzaricloud.in/alternatives/healthchecks)
- [Vigil vs Sentry](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/sentry)
- [Vigil vs GlitchTip](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/glitchtip)
- [Vigil vs BugSnag](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/bugsnag) · [BugSnag alternative](https://puzaricloud.in/alternatives/bugsnag)
- [Vigil vs Rollbar](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/rollbar)
- [Vigil vs Honeybadger](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/honeybadger) · [Honeybadger alternative](https://puzaricloud.in/alternatives/honeybadger)
- [Vigil vs PagerDuty](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/pagerduty)
- [Vigil vs Opsgenie](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/opsgenie) · [Opsgenie alternative](https://puzaricloud.in/alternatives/opsgenie)
- [Vigil vs Datadog](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/datadog)
- [Vigil vs New Relic](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/new-relic)
- [Vigil vs Grafana Cloud](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/grafana-cloud) · [Grafana Cloud alternative](https://puzaricloud.in/alternatives/grafana-cloud)
- [Vigil vs AppSignal](https://puzaricloud.in/compare/appsignal)
- [Dynatrace alternative](https://puzaricloud.in/alternatives/dynatrace)

## Free tools

- [Website security check](https://puzaricloud.in/tools/security-check): Grade a site A+ to F on HSTS, CSP, clickjacking, cookie flags, TLS versions and leaked server versions, with a fix for each finding.
- [SSL certificate check](https://puzaricloud.in/tools/ssl-check): Expiry date, days left, issuer, SANs, negotiated TLS version, whether the chain, hostname and trust are in order, and how the certificate's lifetime fits the 200, 100 and 47-day rules.
- [Website down check](https://puzaricloud.in/tools/uptime-check): Is it down for everyone or just you? One real request from our server in Germany: status code, DNS / connect / TLS / TTFB timing, redirects and response size.
- [Domain expiry checker](https://puzaricloud.in/tools/domain-check): The registry's expiry date, registrar and transfer lock from RDAP (the successor to WHOIS). Also lists name servers and the A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT and CNAME records.
- [Cron expression generator & explainer](https://puzaricloud.in/tools/cron): Build a cron expression from plain choices, or paste one: plain-English meaning, the next 10 run times in any timezone, and the mistakes it would make.
- [Cron converter: systemd, Quartz, AWS](https://puzaricloud.in/tools/cron-converter): Convert one schedule between crontab, systemd OnCalendar=, Quartz, AWS EventBridge cron(), GitHub Actions and Kubernetes, with what doesn't translate.
- [Uptime & downtime calculator](https://puzaricloud.in/tools/sla-calculator): How much downtime 99.9% really allows per day, week, month, quarter and year, uptime from minutes of downtime, the nines, and composite SLAs.
- [DNS & email auth check](https://puzaricloud.in/tools/dns-check): A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT and CAA records plus SPF (lookup count, all), DMARC policy and reports, and common DKIM selectors.
- [HTTP request tester](https://puzaricloud.in/tools/http-check): A curl-like request from our server: status, timing breakdown, redirect chain, response headers, TLS details and the first 2 KB.
- [Cron schedule examples](https://puzaricloud.in/cron): 45 common cron expressions explained

## Docs and API

- [REST API reference](https://puzaricloud.in/docs): OpenAPI docs for monitors, incidents, status pages and more
- [OpenTelemetry setup](https://puzaricloud.in/docs/otel): send traces, metrics and logs over OTLP
- [PagerDuty integration guide](https://puzaricloud.in/docs/pagerduty): Vigil triggers PagerDuty incidents over Events API v2 when a check fails and resolves them on recovery
- [incident.io guide](https://puzaricloud.in/docs/incidentio): send Vigil alerts to an incident.io HTTP alert source (firing and resolved, one alert per monitor)
- [Spike.sh recipe](https://puzaricloud.in/docs/spike): send Vigil alerts to Spike.sh on-call with a webhook body template ("source": "vigil")
- [Apprise recipe](https://puzaricloud.in/docs/apprise): send notifications from Apprise-powered tools (backups, cron scripts, Home Assistant) into Vigil incidents with one jsons:// URL
- [Blog](https://puzaricloud.in/blog): engineering guides
- [Help: Why am I not getting Vigil alerts?](https://puzaricloud.in/help/alerts-not-arriving)
- [Help: How do period, grace time and cron schedules work for heartbeat monitors?](https://puzaricloud.in/help/heartbeat-grace-period)
- [Help: How do I put my Vigil status page on status.mydomain.com?](https://puzaricloud.in/help/status-page-custom-domain)
- [Help: Why does Vigil say my site is down when it works for me?](https://puzaricloud.in/help/false-positives-check-location)
- [Help: Can I pay for Vigil in rupees with UPI, and who sends the invoice?](https://puzaricloud.in/help/billing-inr-gst-invoice)

## Status

- [Vigil status page](https://puzaricloud.in/s/vigil): Vigil's own uptime
- [Is it down?](https://puzaricloud.in/status): live status of popular services from real checks

## About

- [About](https://puzaricloud.in/about): who builds and runs Vigil
- [Contact](https://puzaricloud.in/contact): hello@puzaricloud.in

## Optional

- [Full text for LLMs](https://puzaricloud.in/llms-full.txt): this file plus the support knowledge base and plan table
- [Sitemap](https://puzaricloud.in/sitemap.xml)