Why We Built Wakestack

The Problem We Experienced

We've run infrastructure. We've been on-call. We've paid the monitoring bills.

And we've experienced the same frustrations that many teams face:

Enterprise tools are overkill. Datadog, New Relic, and Splunk are genuinely excellent products. They're also designed for organizations with hundreds of engineers and budgets to match. For a team running 20 servers, they're like using a fighter jet to commute to work.

Simple tools are too simple. UptimeRobot tells you when your site is down. But it doesn't tell you why. When the alert fires at 3 AM, you're logging into servers manually to figure out what's happening.

Combining tools creates chaos. Use one tool for uptime, another for server metrics, another for status pages. Suddenly you're maintaining three dashboards, three alert configurations, and paying three bills.

We wanted something in the middle.

What We Built

Wakestack is server monitoring, uptime monitoring, and status pages in one tool.

Server monitoring: Install a lightweight agent, see CPU, memory, disk, and network. Know when your servers are struggling before they fail.

Uptime monitoring: External checks from multiple locations. Know when your services are unreachable from the outside world.

Status pages: Public or private pages that show your service health. Build trust with users by being transparent about status.

Alerting: Notifications to Slack, email, or webhooks. Get alerted when something needs attention, not when everything is fine.

One tool. One dashboard. One bill.

Our Principles

Simplicity Over Features

Every feature we add is one more thing to understand, configure, and maintain.

We ask: Does the average team need this? If the answer is "maybe some teams, someday," we don't build it.

The result is a tool you can set up in 15 minutes and never think about until something needs your attention.

Sensible Defaults

When you install the Wakestack agent, it starts monitoring immediately. No configuration wizards. No threshold tuning. No decision fatigue.

The defaults work for most setups. If you need to customize, you can. But you don't have to.

Affordable at Any Scale

Monitoring shouldn't be a significant line item in your budget.

We don't charge per metric. We don't charge per query. We don't have hidden overages that show up on your bill.

You know what you're paying, and it's reasonable.

External Plus Internal

Uptime monitoring (external) tells you what users experience.

Server monitoring (internal) tells you why problems happen.

You need both. We provide both. In one place.

Who Wakestack Is For

Startups and Small Teams

You're building a product, not a monitoring empire. You need to know when things break without dedicating an engineer to monitoring infrastructure.

Wakestack gives you visibility without overhead.

Agencies and Freelancers

You manage multiple client projects. Each needs monitoring, but none justifies enterprise tooling.

Wakestack lets you monitor everything from one place at a cost that makes sense.

Self-Hosters

You run your own infrastructure—maybe because you want control, maybe because regulations require it, maybe because it's more cost-effective.

Wakestack's agent works anywhere: bare metal, VMs, cloud instances, containers.

Teams Escaping Enterprise Tools

You've used Datadog or New Relic. The product is great, but you're paying for features you don't use.

Wakestack gives you what you actually need at a fraction of the cost.

What We're Not

We're Not Full Observability

If you need distributed tracing, log aggregation at scale, and ML-powered anomaly detection, Wakestack isn't the right tool.

We do monitoring. We do it well. We don't try to be everything.

We're Not Enterprise-Only

We don't have "contact sales" as our only pricing option. We don't require a 12-month contract. We don't need a three-week implementation.

Sign up, install the agent, see your data. That's it.

We're Not Free (But We're Fair)

Running monitoring infrastructure costs money. We charge for Wakestack because we want to build a sustainable product that you can rely on.

But we offer a free tier for small setups, and our paid plans are priced for real teams, not enterprise budgets.

The Road Ahead

Wakestack is a product we're actively building. Our roadmap is shaped by what our users need:

• More integrations (cloud providers, databases, applications)
• Better alerting flexibility
• Improved status page customization
• Mobile apps for on-call

We're not trying to build a feature-complete enterprise platform. We're trying to build the monitoring tool we wish we'd had.

Try It

If you're running infrastructure and want monitoring that works without the complexity, try Wakestack.

Sign up for free. Install the agent. See your data in minutes.

If it's not for you, no hard feelings. But if you've been looking for something simpler than enterprise tools and more capable than basic uptime checks, Wakestack might be exactly what you need.

We built it because we needed it. We hope you find it useful too.