Pulse features
Six kinds of check, all run from real homes
Early access. 150,000 standard check runs free every month.
Pulse is in early access. The probe network is live. The tools on top of it are in build.
Follow the roadmap- Residential probe networkLive
- Dashboards and reportingIn build
- AlertingIn build
- Status pagesIn build
Check types
Pick a check to see what it catches
A 200 with the wrong page still counts as down
Pulse validates what came back. A stale page served to home users in Brazil counts as a failure, even when the server replied.
- GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, with custom headers and auth
- Assertions on status, body content and response time
- Redirect chains, cookies and sessions
- HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
Know when a DNS change has reached real users
Pulse resolves your domains through the recursive resolvers your users' ISPs run, not through cloud DNS. You see propagation the way customers experience it.
- A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT and NS records
- Expected-value checks on every answer
- Propagation time across locations
- DNSSEC validation
No more certificates that expire on a Sunday
Warnings 30, 14 and 7 days before expiry. Pulse also checks that every location is served the right certificate with a complete chain.
- Expiry warnings at 30, 14 and 7 days
- Chain, issuer and subject checks
- TLS 1.2 and 1.3 protocol checks
- Wildcard and SAN certificates
Ports and ping for services that aren't web pages
TCP and UDP port checks and ping from home connections. Useful for game servers, mail, VPN endpoints and anything that isn't a web page.
- TCP and UDP connectivity
- Ping with latency per location
- Runs on the same residential network as every other check
Test the whole flow a client runs
Real clients log in, carry a token, then do something useful. Pulse runs the same sequence and fails the check at the step that broke.
- Chain requests and reuse values between steps
- Assertions on status, body and timing at every step
- See which step failed, and from where
Load times from a home connection, not a lab
A headless browser loads the full page over residential broadband, with real DNS lookups and last-mile latency. Regressions show up by region, ISP or time of day.
- Time to first byte, DOM ready and full load
- Locations compared side by side
- Billed as browser runs: $1.00 per 1,000
In build
What sits on top of the probes
Alerts you can trust In build
A failure is confirmed from several homes before anything fires. Then it goes to email, Slack or a webhook with the affected regions attached. A PagerDuty integration is planned.
Branded status pages In build
A free shared page at pulse.edge.network/yourname, or status.yourdomain.com with your logo for $2 a month. Incident history and email or RSS updates for your users.
Dashboard and reporting In build
30 and 90-day uptime per check, p50, p95 and p99 response times per location, and an incident timeline you can export for SLA reports.
At a glance
Pulse, line by line
| Capability | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Probe networkLive | 2,000+ residential locations on community Edge Hosts |
| Check interval | As often as every 30 seconds |
| HTTP and HTTPS | Methods, headers and auth; status, body and timing assertions; redirects; HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 |
| DNS | A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT and NS; expected values; propagation time; DNSSEC |
| SSL | Expiry warnings at 30, 14 and 7 days; chain, issuer and subject; TLS 1.2 and 1.3 |
| Ports and ping | TCP and UDP connectivity; ping |
| API workflows | Multi-step requests with values passed between steps |
| Page speed | Time to first byte, DOM ready and full load in a headless browser |
| AlertingIn build | Confirmation from several homes; email, Slack and webhook |
| Status pagesIn build | Free shared page; your own domain for $2 a month |
| DashboardsIn build | Uptime grids, percentiles, incident timeline and probe map |
| Data retention | 7 days on free usage; 90 days once you have any paid usage |
Point your first check at production
Start with 150,000 free standard runs each month and see how your site looks from real homes.
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