Edge Pulse
Uptime checks from the homes your customers live in
Your CDN says the site is up. A customer on home broadband says it isn't. Pulse runs your checks from 2,000+ residential connections, so you see what they see.
Early access. 150,000 check runs free every month. No card needed.
- Residential probe locations
- 2,000+
- Shortest check interval
- 30s
- Free check runs a month
- 150k
- Per 1,000 standard runs
- $0.01
How it works
Your check runs on someone's home broadband
The checks are the ones you know. Where they run from is what changes.
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Describe the check
Pick a type, a URL or host, an interval as short as 30 seconds, and the places your users are. - 02
It runs from real homes
Each run executes on an Edge Host: a community machine on home or business broadband, using the same ISPs, resolvers and routes as your visitors. - 03
Failures get a second opinion
A failed run is checked again from nearby homes before it counts. The alerts and dashboards built on this are in build.
Early access
Where Pulse is today
The probe network is live. The dashboards, alerting and status pages that sit on top of it are being built now. You should know that before you sign up, not after.
Public roadmap progress40%
Follow Pulse on the roadmapResidential probe network
Live2,000+ community Edge Hosts on home and business broadband, ready to run checks.
Dashboards and reporting
In buildUptime grids, response-time percentiles and an incident timeline for every check.
Alerting
In buildFailures confirmed from several homes, then sent by email, Slack or webhook.
Status pages
In buildA free shared page on every account, or your own domain for $2 a month.
Check types
Six checks, one probe network
From an open port to a finished checkout, every check runs from the same residential connections.
HTTP and HTTPS
Status codes, body content, headers and response time, as often as every 30 seconds.DNS
Resolve through home resolvers, compare against expected values and time propagation.SSL certificates
Expiry, chain and protocol, with warnings 30, 14 and 7 days out.Ports and ping
TCP and UDP connectivity and ping from the networks your users are on.API workflows
Log in, carry the token, place an order. Assert on every step.Page speed
Full page loads in a headless browser, timed from home connections.
Residential, not data centre
The outage only your customers could see
Data-centre probes sit on well-peered networks and are often on a CDN's allowlist. Your customers aren't. When a geo rule, an ISP route or a stale resolver breaks the site for real people, a cloud probe still gets a 200.
- Residential IPs catch bot and geo rules that misfire on real users
- DNS resolves through ISP resolvers, as it does on your users' devices
- Latency and routing measured over the last mile
Incident confirmation
One failed probe is a question, not an incident
Home connections drop. So Pulse is designed to ask again before it wakes anyone. A failure triggers checks from two more homes in the same region, and the verdict grows with the evidence.
- Two of three homes failing confirms a regional incident
- Three or more regions failing makes it global
- Healthy regions are reported too, so you know the blast radius
In build
Status pages
A status page without another subscription
Pingdom lists status pages at $29 a month extra and UptimeRobot at $7. Pulse will include a shared page free on every account, and your own domain and branding for $2 a month, served by Edge CDN and DNS.
- Your domain, logo and colours
- Live status per service, plus incident history
- Email and RSS updates for your users
In build
What it costs
Priced per run, so you can do the maths
A run is one check from one location. There are no plans and no per-monitor fees. The first 150,000 standard runs each month are free, then it's $0.01 per 1,000.
3 checks every 5 minutes from 3 homes
$0.00
77,760 runs a month, well inside the free 150,000.
10 checks every minute from 3 homes
$11.46
1,296,000 runs. The first 150,000 are free; the rest cost $0.01 per 1,000.
Compare
A different vantage point, a different bill
| Pingdom | UptimeRobot | Datadog | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Probe locations | 2,000+ residential | ~120 data centres | ~30 data centres | ~70 data centres |
| Residential IPs | ||||
| Check frequency | 30s | 1 min | 30s (paid) | 1 min |
| Pricing model | Per check run | Plan tiers | Per monitor | Per test/mo |
| Status pages | Free shared, $2/mo custom (in build) | $29/mo extra | $7/mo extra | Not included |
| Starting price | $0 (150k runs/mo free) | $15/mo | $0 (5 min) | $5/check/mo |
Competitor figures from their public pricing pages. Pulse is in early access.
FAQ
Before you point Pulse at production
Something else? Ask the Pulse team.
Can I use Pulse today?
Pulse is in early access. The residential probe network is live. The dashboards, alerting and status pages built on top of it are still in build. The public roadmap tracks progress, and this page changes as each piece ships.
What exactly is a residential probe?
A check run from an Edge Host: a community-contributed machine on an ordinary home or business broadband connection. These hosts are separate from the 988 edge locations that serve Edge CDN traffic. Pulse deliberately runs from outside data centres.
Won't home connections cause false alarms?
That's why Pulse is designed to confirm before it alerts. A failed run is checked again from two more homes in the same region. Two of three failing confirms a regional incident, and three or more regions failing makes it global.
How is Pulse priced?
Per check run: one check from one location. The first 150,000 standard runs each month are free, then $0.01 per 1,000. Page speed runs use a headless browser and cost $1.00 per 1,000. A status page on your own domain is $2 a month.
Which check types are there?
HTTP and HTTPS, DNS, SSL certificates, TCP and UDP ports and ping, multi-step API workflows, and page speed in a headless browser.
See your site the way your customers do
Put the residential probe network to work on your own URLs. The first 150,000 standard check runs each month are free.
Early access. No card needed to sign up.