Independent dependency monitoring
A vendor status page is the vendor grading its own homework. StackWitness measures the services you depend on ourselves, from multiple regions, and publishes exactly what we saw. When something breaks, you know within minutes whether it is your provider or your own stack, and you can say so honestly.
Already measuring in public: independent status pages for the services teams depend on. No account required to read them.
An alert fires. Checkout is failing. Your APM says your servers are healthy. The vendor's status page says "all systems operational," the way it almost always does. So you start tearing through your own recent deploys while customers churn and support fills up.
StackWitness was already watching that dependency from outside your network. It can tell you the endpoint started returning errors from three regions four minutes ago. It is not your deploy. It is them.
We do not ask the vendor. We measure.
That one fact, delivered fast, changes the whole incident: you stop debugging code that is fine, you post an honest update to your own customers, and you have a timestamped record of when it started and when it recovered.
How we measure: reachability probe + vendor status feed
Them vs you: self-report beside independent measurement
We run the probes ourselves, on our own infrastructure, not from inside your app. A reading is not contaminated by your network, your deploy, or your provider's own dashboard.
If two regions see it up and one sees it down, we show that. Partial outages are the common case and the most misreported. We never average a split result into a comfortable green.
We watch the endpoints and flows that actually matter, not only a health check that returns 200 while the thing behind it is broken.
We only turn a light red on evidence, and we timestamp every reading. A calm page proves it is still measuring. We never assert a state we did not observe.
Watch the third-party services your product leans on. When Stripe or Twilio wobbles, you see it on your dashboard, not in a support ticket.
We watch the endpoints that make you money and report exactly what we saw. A shaky check shows shaky, never smoothed into a comfortable green you cannot trust.
See when a third party you rely on is the cause, so you are debugging the right thing instead of a health check that says 200 while the thing behind it is broken.
Alerts that wait for clear attribution, so on-call gets "it is Stripe" instead of another ambiguous page.
Publish a customer-facing status page backed by independent measurement instead of a button someone forgot to press.
Every reading is timestamped and kept, so an incident has an evidence trail you did not have to reconstruct.
Connect Claude Code or any MCP client over OAuth and ask "is something down on our stack?" mid-incident. No API keys, same data as your dashboard.
During an incident you are usually already talking to an AI coding assistant. StackWitness speaks the Model Context Protocol, so you can point Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client at your workspace and ask it, in plain language, what we are measuring right now. No dashboard tab-switch, no digging: you ask, it reads your live monitors, incidents, and dependency readings, and answers with what we actually observed.
Illustrative. The assistant answers only from what StackWitness measured, with timestamps. It never invents a state or asserts a compliance verdict.
You connect your assistant to StackWitness through a standard OAuth sign-in backed by WorkOS. There is no long-lived API key to paste into a config file, leak in a screenshot, or rotate by hand. Access follows your workspace login.
The assistant can read your monitors, status pages, incidents, and dependency readings, and set monitors up. It is scoped to your organization, and it reports measurements, never a verdict we did not observe.
Any MCP-capable client connects: Claude Code, Cursor, and others. The context arrives in the window where you are already triaging, so the "is it us?" answer is one question away instead of one more tool to open.
| Generic uptime (UptimeRobot, Better Stack) |
Vendor status page (Atlassian Statuspage) |
StackWitness | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the measuring | You, from one place | The vendor, about itself | Us, independently, from outside your network |
| Third-party dependencies | Your problem to guess | Not covered | Measured directly |
| Partial / regional outage | Averaged or missed | Rarely posted | Shown as measured |
| Answers "them or us?" | No | No | Yes |
We do not compete on cheaper or prettier. We compete on measuring what a self-report cannot.
Proof, not promises. We publish what we measure. The same engine that watches your stack maintains public dependency-truth pages anyone can read, with timestamps.
APM watches your own code from the inside. StackWitness watches the services you depend on from the outside, independently. They are complementary: your APM cannot tell you that Stripe is down for everyone, because it only sees your servers. We can.
Multiple edge locations, with results shown per region so a regional outage is visible rather than averaged away.
We require measured evidence, show partial results as measured, and gate alert verdicts on clear attribution. The goal is fewer, truer pages, not more noise.
No. We report what we measured, with timestamps. We never assert a compliance verdict or a vendor's SLA on their behalf. Facts, not a pass.
Yes. StackWitness exposes your workspace over the Model Context Protocol, so Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client can read your monitors, incidents, and dependency readings after a standard OAuth sign-in. No API keys. The assistant answers from what we measured, with timestamps, and never asserts a state or a compliance verdict we did not observe.
We publish fair category guides on status pages and uptime approaches (self-report, single-vantage checks, independent measurement). Start at /compare.
Independent monitoring, dependency truth, attribution, verdicts, and a status page. No per-check surprise billing.