Monitoring — When your server sleeps, we stay awake.
Server monitoring from 7 EU locations. SSL, ping, DNS, SMTP, IMAP/POP, FTP, SSH — all in the Prepaid-Host panel.
EU-only · 30 days Trial without card · GDPR
See the moment something breaks —
before your customers do.
Monitoring checks your services around the clock from 7 EU locations at once. Here is how it looks in the panel:
- Pulsing live status per probe
- Latency values per location in real time
- Auto-recovery when 4/7 probes report "up"
- Consensus logic against false positives
SMS alerts included from Trio — no credit packs needed
Plans & pricing
Transparent. Scalable. No commitment.
Monitoring Solo
For single servers
- 1 Monitors
- From 60 sec interval
- All 7 EU locations
- Email, Webhook, Slack, Discord
- SMS alerts from Trio onwards
- Status page (public link)
- Custom status-page domain available
- Core types (HTTP · DNS · Ping)
- PDF reports & maintenance windows
- No minimum contract term
incl. 19% VAT
≈ 2,99 € per monitor
Monitoring Trio
Mini setups with SMS
- 3 Monitors
- From 60 sec interval
- All 7 EU locations
- Email, SMS, Webhook, Slack, Discord
- 10 SMS/month included
- Status page (public link)
- Custom status-page domain available
- All monitor types
- PDF reports & maintenance windows
- No minimum contract term
incl. 19% VAT
≈ 2,66 € per monitor
Monitoring Stack
Small setups
- 5 Monitors
- From 60 sec interval
- All 7 EU locations
- Email, SMS, Webhook, Slack, Discord
- 15 SMS/month included
- Status page (public link)
- Custom status-page domain available
- All monitor types
- PDF reports & maintenance windows
- No minimum contract term
incl. 19% VAT
≈ 2,60 € per monitor
Monitoring Crew
Growing teams
- 15 Monitors
- From 60 sec interval
- All 7 EU locations
- Email, SMS, Webhook, Slack, Discord
- 30 SMS/month included
- Status page (public link)
- Custom status-page domain available
- All monitor types
- PDF reports & maintenance windows
- No minimum contract term
incl. 19% VAT
≈ 2,27 € per monitor
Try Monitoring free for 30 days – 3 monitors included.
No credit card, no auto-charge. After 30 days you actively pick a plan — or just let it lapse.
Which plan fits?
All features at a glance — compare directly what you get where.
| Solo | Trio | Stack | Crew | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resources | ||||
| Monitors | 1 | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| Min. check interval | 1 min | 1 min | 1 min | 1 min |
| Probe locations | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Incl. SMS / month | — | 10 | 15 | 30 |
| Monitor types | ||||
| HTTP / HTTPS · SSL · Ping · DNS | ||||
| SMTP / IMAP / POP / FTP / SSH | ||||
| DNSBL & domain expiry | ||||
| Heartbeat (cron watch) | ||||
| Notifications | ||||
| SMS | ||||
| Webhook (signed with HMAC-SHA256) | ||||
| Slack & Discord | ||||
| Status page | ||||
| Public status page (subdomain) | ||||
| Custom domain (status.your-shop.com) | ||||
| General | ||||
| Multi-location consensus | ||||
| Maintenance windows & PDF reports | ||||
| Auto-discovery of your servers | ||||
| Price / month (incl. VAT) | 2,99 € | 7,99 € | 12,99 € | 33,99 € |
What Monitoring does differently.
An honest comparison with the well-known names — not everything they can do, but without the bullshit.
| Monitoring | Better Stack | Pingdom | UptimeRobot | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data location | ||||
| Probes exclusively in the EU | ||||
| GDPR DPA included | on request | on request | on request | |
| German-language ticket support | English | English | English | |
| Onboarding & contract | ||||
| 30-day trial without payment details | 10 days | 14 days (with CC) | Free tier | |
| No minimum contract term (monthly) | Annual contract preferred | |||
| Entry price (€/month net) | 2,99 € | ~22 $ | ~10 $ | free / 8 $ |
| Features | ||||
| 11 monitor types (HTTP/SSL/DNS/SMTP/SSH/...) | limited | limited | ||
| Heartbeat / cron watcher | ||||
| White-label status pages | Premium | |||
| Auto-discovery from VPS account | ||||
As of May 2026 — based on the public pricing overviews of the named providers.
Find out about problems before your customers do.
Monitoring watches your servers, domains and services around the clock — automatically, precisely, without a configuration marathon.
Server outages detected in seconds
From a 60-second interval — we often know your server is down before you do. You get notified by email, SMS, Slack or webhook.
SSL never expires unnoticed
You get a warning 30 days before expiry — then again at 7 and 1 day. No more startled customers on the cert-error page.
Mail-server problems caught early
SMTP, IMAP, POP3 — we verify real logins, not just whether the port answers. DNSBL listings of your mail IPs are detected instantly.
DNS failures instantly visible
Verifies A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT records from multiple locations at once. Detects DNS cache discrepancies and resolver issues.
No more domain-expiry madness
Monitoring queries the WHOIS data of your domains daily and warns 30/7/1 days ahead — no more lost domains from forgotten renewals.
Heartbeat for cron jobs
Inverse checks for backup scripts and cron jobs: your script pings a URL on every successful run — if the ping is missing, we raise the alarm, even when the server itself still responds.
Consensus instead of false positives
We check from all 7 EU locations at once — only when the majority agrees is the server considered down. No more annoying false alarms.
SLA proof via PDF report
A weekly, monthly or quarterly report as PDF at the press of a button — perfect for audits, customer reviews or your own compliance requirements.
The right check for every service layer.
From HTTP to Ping to Heartbeat — Monitoring covers every service you run.
Checks status code, response time and response body of your website or REST API. Custom headers, basic auth, bearer tokens and POST bodies are supported — protected endpoints are checked too.
Example e.g. GET /v1/health expects 200 + JSON field "status":"ok"
Validity, trust chain and remaining lifetime of your certificate. Warns 30 / 7 / 1 days before expiry — intermediate certificates are checked too, so no expired intermediate cert slips through unnoticed.
Example Even with Let’s Encrypt auto-renewal gaps you hear immediately if the ACME job gets stuck.
We load the page and verify that a specific string, regular expression or JSON path appears in the body. Ideal for "real" functional checks instead of just 200 OK.
Example Login page contains "Sign in", shop product contains "Add to cart", API returns "ok":true
Inverse check: your cron job pings a unique URL on every successful run. If the ping is missing longer than the configured interval, we raise the alarm — even when the server itself still responds.
Example Perfect for nightly DB backups, newsletter jobs, deploy scripts. Callable from curl, bash, Python.
Classic ping check for reachability and round-trip time. Works with IPv4 and IPv6 — perfect for pure infrastructure monitors without an HTTP stack.
Example Routers, firewalls, IPMI interfaces, VPN gateways — anything that answers ping.
We resolve your domain from every probe location and compare the result against your expected value. Supports A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT and SRV — detects DNS hijacking, misrouted migrations and cache poisoning.
Example Example: A record for shop.de must be 1.2.3.4, otherwise alarm.
Connection to your mail server including a real SMTP-AUTH login test. STARTTLS, implicit SSL or cleartext — we verify the TLS certificate, greeting and login with your real credentials.
Example Detects blocked ports (port-25 filtering), expired passwords and greylisting issues.
A real login to your incoming mailbox. Not just "port open" — we authenticate with your credentials and ensure mailboxes are actually reachable.
Example Ideal after migrating to Postfix-Dovecot / Plesk / Mailcow — you notice immediately when Sieve filters or TLS break.
Connection + login test for file servers. Classic FTP, explicit TLS tunnel (FTPS) or SFTP over SSH are supported.
Example Important for backup pipelines, image CDN uploads, third-party integrations that deliver files via FTP.
We establish a real SSH connection to your server — password-based or with a private key. So you know not only that port 22 answers, but that the sshd daemon and your authentication work too.
Example Detects fail2ban lockouts, broken PAM configuration, expired keys after an OS update.
Two shields in one monitor: the reputation of your mail-server IPs against the major blocklists (Spamhaus, SORBS, Barracuda, …) plus the WHOIS-based remaining lifetime of your domain.
Example Warns early about spam listing (otherwise emails land in junk) and forgotten domain renewals.
Get reached the way you work.
Monitoring speaks every language — from classic email to team chat. Other services you wire in via webhook.
Deeply integrated into your stack.
API monitoring, signed webhooks, heartbeat URLs for cron jobs — three building blocks that automate your incident response.
API monitoring with auth
HTTP status code, response time, body match on a JSON path. Custom headers, bearer token, basic auth — protected endpoints are checked too. Example: GET /v1/health → expects 200 + body contains "ok".
Signed webhook alerts
Every outgoing webhook is signed with HMAC-SHA256. The X-PH-Signature header contains the signature — verify it server-side before processing the payload. Slack & Discord use prebuilt embeds.
Heartbeat URL for cron jobs
Inverse checks: your cron pings a unique URL on every successful run. If the ping is missing, we raise the alarm. Perfect for nightly backups, DB dumps, deploy scripts. Callable directly from curl/bash/python.
No blind spots. 7 locations. Always.
Multi-location checks practically eliminate false alarms from local network hiccups.
Share your live status publicly.
A public status page with your service overview — instantly shareable as a link. This is how your customers see the status:
Custom domain
Host the status page at status.your-shop.com — we automatically deliver a valid Let's Encrypt certificate. No subdomain binding to us required.
Style editor in the panel
Logo, brand colors, accent, background — all with a click. For the finishing touch you can inject your own CSS rules, without any theme repository.
Live updates without refresh
Status changes are pushed within seconds. The service pulse animation, incident banner and uptime bars update automatically — customers do not have to hit F5.
Everything monitoring needs.
Modern, fast, transparent.
Instant alert in 60 seconds
The alert goes out as soon as the majority of the 7 probes report "down" — usually within a minute of the first failure.
Consensus instead of false alarms
We check from 7 EU locations in parallel. Only the majority decides — no annoying scares from local network hiccups.
Auto-discovery
On first setup we scan your VPS, domains and web hostings — activate all relevant monitors with a single click.
Heartbeat for cron jobs
Inverse checks: Monitoring speaks up when your backup script or cron job does not ping regularly.
Public status page
Share your live status with customers — automatically updated, without you doing anything.
PDF reports at the press of a button
Weekly recap, monthly report, quarterly review — straight to PDF to forward to stakeholders.
Plan upgrade anytime
Need more monitors? Switch directly in the panel to Trio, Stack or Crew — remaining credit is applied pro rata.
30 days free trial
Full feature set in the trial — no payment details, no automatic renewal. After 30 days you decide.
GDPR compliant
All data stays in the EU.
100% EU hosting
Probes & data exclusively in EU data centers.
Encrypted at rest
Credentials, mTLS keys, webhook secrets — all encrypted.
German-language support
Via the ticket system directly from Prepaid-Host.
Monitoring in 3 steps
From click to first alert in under 5 minutes.
Pick a plan
Choose the right plan or start with the 30-day trial.
Add monitors
Manually or via auto-discovery from your existing servers.
Sleep well
We monitor from 7 locations and only ping you when something is off.
Frequently asked questions
Anything still unclear?
How quickly am I alerted to server outages?
What is consensus monitoring?
Are the probes really only in the EU?
Which monitor types are supported?
What are heartbeat monitors?
Can I send webhook alerts to my own system?
How does the auto-discovery wizard work?
What happens when the SSL certificate is about to expire?
Can I cancel monthly?
What does an SMS notification cost?
What is included in the 30-day trial?
Does Monitoring offer a public status page?
More than 50 monitors? Custom domain? mTLS?
We build the right plan for you — drop us a quick note about what you need.
Monitoring Enterprise
For teams that need compliance, custom domains and API integration — all included, individual SLA.
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200+ monitors Scales with your needs — significantly more available on request.
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Status page with custom domain status.yourcompany.com with your own SSL — fully whitelabel.
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mTLS client certificates For internal APIs behind mutual TLS — Monitoring probes with your client cert.
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API tokens for end users Reseller setup: your customers get read-only access via your subdomain.
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Personal support Direct tech contact + individual SLA. Response times by arrangement.